An old (and far more talented) friend of mine responded to the discussion Rob and I had about frame rate: The choice to go from 24 fps to 48 fps was that some filmmakers really hated the strobing effect when the camera pans in 3-D versions...
I have a more extensive analysis up at the Prospect. In theory, courts should play a role in facilitating the operation of a democratic system; here, they're going out of.
I don't have the patience to to deal with David Mamet's latest hackwork in any detail; I'm glad I'll be screening The Verdict in law & society class today to.
I have a piece in Time about Sonia Sotomayor's recent comments regarding what a privilege it is to practice law, and how lawyers who are unhappy "need to go back to square one." A couple of additional thoughts: (1) Sotomayor's comments illustrate how thoroughly people get...
In the course of her (excellent, of course, read it now) analysis of Roe's 40th birthday, Linda Greenhouse notes another important story: Ms. Brewer, who has become something of a.
One of the (few) joys of following soccer football in Britain are the annual surprises generated by the various and sundry domestic cup competitions. The big news of the past.
Robert Stacy McCain, the man who defended the lynching of Emmett Till, has some really good advice for the Republican Party. Double down on white supremacy and reject those anti-capitalist Latinos. As a Democrat, let me give a full-throated recommendation that Republican leaders listen to this...
While I guess I'm glad that McDonald's is using a certified fish that is theoretically sustainable (although I doubt it really), I don't know what karma the entire noble species.
George Will...OK, pretty dumb. Roger Kimball outsources his anti-empirical gender essentiallism. (Why do American conservatives despise the IDF?) This brings us to Mr. Tucker Carlson, who draws an analogy that.
As baseball fans know, every stadium has some version of the "race" between innings where the fans can root for a meaningless computerized competition between different colored objects. In Seattle for instance, it's speedboats. Usually these remain computerized. The Washington Nationals have taken a different tack,...
Some dude won $75,000 by making a half-court shot at a basketball game. The story on ESPN: said dude has to pay, gasp, taxes on his earnings! The horror. The.
Orin Kerr has a typically thoughtful two-part series on the Swartz prosecution. The first part confirms what I assumed to be true -- the charges were plausible under the letter.