I don't agree with all of Yglesias' analysis here on cities regulating food trucks out of business, but the overall point is fairly sound. In the comment section for my post on Cleveland the other day, I suggested that cities trying to revitalize themselves need...
Month: February 2012
You can tell that mining companies have our interests in mind because of their deeply-held commitment to ensuring that poisonous heavy metals don't seep into the ecosystem. Photographs of variously.
It's not that easy to get Greenwald and Chait to agree on a foreign policy issue, but the genocidal ravings of Little Rambo Carlson seem to have done the trick.
Gauntlet thrown ... and there it is, still on the ground. I kicked it, but nothing doing. Not that I did expect or am expecting any different, but it'd be nice to see someone with the guts to defend their argument in a public forum....
The reporting of Garrett Epps and Dahlia Lithwick suggests that the lawyers representing Xavier Alvarez -- the habitual liar convicted of violating the Stolen Valor Act -- had trouble coming up with.
A cowardly, mendacious editorial from The New Republic on Syria: To be clear, we do not want to see troops deployed to Syria. We are not arguing for another Iraq.
It's probably been more or less proven by now that I spend my days a) finding weird stuff in the past, b) getting angry at the past, and 3) teaching my students about weird stuff or evil people in the past. And that's more or...
"The problem with the auto bailout is that evil workers actually benefited. Had all the money gone to obscenely wealthy parasites like Mitt Romney, they might have been fine." ...shorter.
A good first step, anyway. More when I have a chance to read the opinion, although we can be confident that the George W. Bush appointee Jeffrey White is some.
(This will be the second-to-last Who-related visual rhetoric posts for a bit. It concerns the complicated conclusion of the fifth season, which is why it's the second-to-last. It's also a sequel of sorts to this post, though I reserve the right to introduce new material and present...
I intended to link to this yesterday, but here is an outstanding piece of testimony to the benefits of the very kinds of prenatal testing that Bishop Santorum regards as.
I would like to buck the conventional wisdom, but I agree with everybody that the grant of cert in Fisher v. UT Austin is almost certainly the end of affirmative.