Erick at selfparody.org: "And now those opposed to Ben have googled prior writings that on the surface appear suspicious, but only because permissions obtained and judgments made offline were not reflected online by an out dated and out of business campus newspaper. But that's all...
Month: March 2006
A terrific post by hilzoy, explaining why serial plagiarism is far from a trivial issue--make sure to read the comments too. And as Greg Saunders points out, there's something particularly.
I love to use film as a teaching tool, and not just because it buys me a day of no lectures. Movies help to make clear certain concepts in a.
I must admit that I was a little bit surprised at how extensive the application was to adopt Nelson and Starbuck. At no point in the process did I think I would be rejected, but I can certainly see how rescue organizations would be a...
In some good news--get it while you still can (i.e. before the GOP gets another appointment)!--today the Supremes ruled in Georgia v. Randolph that in ordinary circumstances one party cannot.
Increasingly frequently is the question asked: what is the most unintentionally hilarious piece of unreconstructed dumbass wingnuttery to emerge from the less-than-robust mind of the Washington Post's new star blogger,.
I was planning an omnibus post commenting on some of the great stuff that has been written over the past few days. This chart by ampersand, however--which neatly summarizes one of my longtime hobbyhorses in chart form--deserves its own post:All the pieces of the puzzle...
Blarg. I was planning to get important work done...I wish that Reynolds, Hewitt, the boys at Powerline, the lovely Alexandra, or really anyone on the right side of the blogosphere.
Well, that didn't take long. As predictably as the tides, via Greenwald I see that Glenn Reynolds has flat-out compared Mearsheimer and Walt to David Duke. Obviously, comparing scholars to.
L, G & M has made it to the finals the Koufax awards! Please consider voting for us for Best Series for my Supreme Court coverage. Voting instructions can be found here. Also consider voting for some friends of the blog! A not-close-to-exhaustive list would...
Thanks to James Wolcott, my cranky complaints about dream sequences on TV are stated in considerably better prose:Dream sequences are a curse on series TV, equal in their artsy-kitschy intrusiveness.
From Fox News' Soldier's Diary correspondant Capt. Dan Sukman:Most of the coverage seems to focus on the bad things that happen here — car bombs, murders, etc. — but that’s.