Charles has the juiciest excerpt from Richard Posner's tour de force opinion holding the same-sex marriage bans in jurisdictions covered by 7CA unconstitutional. But it's worth reading in its entirety. Here's the bottom line: Our pair of cases is rich in detail but ultimately straight-forward to...
Well, this brings together a couple of LGM obsessions: Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur that has taken the crown for largest terrestrial animal.
When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all.
Shorter Verbatim some Economist hack, on The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: "Unlike Mr Thomas, Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains....
Last week I did an interview on airpower and stuff with the Buter. Check it out.
I'm a lifelong Seahawks fan, but a fairly casual and not particularly analytical NFL fan. So perhaps someone who knows the league better than I would care to explain why.
The D.C. Circuit will hear Halbig en banc, and in the order vacated this decade's answer to Bush v. Gore. Since the arguments for not hearing Halbig en banc were almost as terrible as the arguments made by the Halbig plurality itself, this is not exactly...
Not the Onion: The New York Yankees announced Tuesday that the team will wear a patch of Derek Jeter's final-season logo on all player hats and uniforms from Sunday, the.
Jessica Williams has the final word on catcalling and sexual harassment.
Some thoughts at the Diplomat on Japan's entry into the diesel sub market: Germany, France, and Russia have long dominated the existing market for diesel-electric submarines. The German Type 209 submarine serves in over a dozen navies, with more than 60 boats currently in service. While...
This Rolling Stone profile of Willie Nelson is pretty great, even if magazines should not refer to their own work as "definitive," which is the equivalent of talking about your.
Liel Leibovitz has an extended defense of UIUC's firing of Steven Salaita. Let's start with this: Another tweet applied just as much nuance in declaring, “Zionists: transforming ‘anti-semitism’ from something.