12 years after commencing work, and 38 years after the event, the Saville Inquiry finds that those killed murdered or injured in the “Bloody Sunday” massacre in Derry were innocent civil rights marchers / protesters, and the shootings by soldiers of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army were unprovoked and unjustified. Unsurprisingly, Bloody Sunday […]
Month: June 2010
Our commenter David Nieporent remains very confused about the argument I’ve been making for years about Sam Alito, although it’s very straightforward: The point is that this is, well, an i
I know there’s no excuse for not trashing Jeff Goldstein et al. on a regular basis, but since said volcano, my life has turned into a country song: my wife left me (on a two-month research trip
Are you ready for this? The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act. Officials are worried that they might plow into airliners, cargo planes and corporate jets that zoom around at high altitudes, […]
Manohla Dargis suggests that SATC II has been subject to what I call the Phantom Menace effect — that is, a sequel subject to especially and in some sense unfairly harsh criticism because critic
I suppose I could get into the obvious silliness of this op-ed — particularly the stuff about his silence during oral arguments signifying boredom — but the bottom line is that I strongly,
This video was shot by an LGM field correspondent at the US-Czech Republic warm-up match in Hartford on the 25th. Unfortunately these members of the American Outlaws were too drunk to muster a sentence when the Daily Show’s John Oliver showed up to interview them, so the scene that followed did not make it into […]
19:30 (BST), 14:30 (EDT), 11:30 (PDT). The Guardian predicts the lineups. First, welcome back to me. Things here at my institution of higher education have been, well, interesting over the past m
Very useful data here. Again, I’ll have more about this when I get home, but it’s worth noting that once again that Roberts and Alito, not Scalia and Thomas, are the most reliable pro-busi
Good for him, even though the passage of whatever hare-brained regulation the arbitrary impediment to abortion lobby can cook up merely awaits a Republican governor seeking future elective office as a Republican.
The outing of Army Specialist Bradley Manning for his alleged role in leaking classified documents to Wikileaks raises a number of questions in my mind about the relationship between whistle-blowing,
With apologies for the terrible audio on my end. I’m traveling so this comes to you from a noisy space through a low quality mike. Henry Farrell and I ramble about Wikileaks, Facebook, academic