Belle Waring finds this gem from “The American Thinker(sic),” approved as “persuasive” by Glenn Reynolds: As the court’s new junior member, the 60 year old lady Harriet Miers will finally give a break to Stephen Breyer, who has been relegated to closing and opening the door of the conference room, and fetching beverages for his […]
Month: October 2005
Bill Petti of Duck of Minerva writes the post on reputation that I’ve been planning to write for some time. In short, the Norm Podhoretz justification for the War on Iraq (we needed to fight it
Frustrated by Cano’s three run double, I flip to Fox News in disgust. (I know, I know). I stick around for a few minutes of O’Reilly’s “the blogs! they’re eeeeeevil!̶
Scott’s post on grade complaints gives me the excuse I need to post this: Typical Grade Complaints and Responses The following are a set of complaints students often make regarding grades. All graders make mistakes, and an interrogation of those mistakes can result in a higher grade. Unfortunately, many students resort to one or more […]
An old-skool response, which I mean as praise…
Hmm. Matt Clement Pre All Star Break: 3.87 ERA, 97 K, 35 BBPost All Star Break: 5.72 ERA, 49 K, 35 BB Not good.
I notice that Atrios just linked to it, which makes my link somewhat pointless, but there is one element of Roy’s extremely persuasive critique of Bill Bennett that’s worth highlighting: The actually offensive part of Bennett’s statement was his assertion that mass black fetuscide would, of necessity, cause crime to drop. Bennett’s defenders do not […]
The Justice Project has an extremely useful page about the Streamlined Procedures Act, the awful proposed legislation I recently wrote about. It includes good analysis, links to the legislative text i
So a while back I started keeping a record of every film I saw and my initial impressions of it in a notebook. As I recently lost the physical notebook, I decided to continue this process on the inter
Yankees v. Angels The Angels actually had a better run differential than the Yankees, although once you adjust for the competition the Yanks are a little better. I don’t care for the Angels’ free swinging -offense, which looks even weaker next to the Yanks’ classic on-base-and-power machine. And yet, I don’t think it’s a fluke […]
Brad Plumer makes a good point about Miers: “Still, whatever leftward shifts may come, it does seem that Miers could do lasting damage to the Constitution in her first few years by giving the pr
Shorter Kim Hume, Vice President, Bureau Chief of FOX News, Washington: The law is irrelevant. Only power matters. Yield before Tom Delay!