A few weeks back I wrote my co-bloggers, regretfully: Effective May 30, I need to go on hiatus. I have just accepted a position as Graduate Program Director in my department, and need to deal with moving houses this summer so I’ll be bit pre-occupied in the near term, but the bigger issues are a) […]
Month: May 2011
Seventy years ago today, HMS Hood met her fate. 1415 of her crew died within a few minutes of the explosion. Ted Briggs, last of the three survivors, died in October 2008. The hunt for Bismarck woul
Ryan Giggs v 75,000 Twitter users; Lib Dem MP comes to the rescue confirming what we already knew. The use of the “injunction” or “super-injunction” is fairly common in the Uni
Some initial thoughts here. Another way of putting it is that the Republican position here is self-refuting. The injunction requires the release of tens of thousands of prisoners only if the state isn’t willing to invest more revenue in the prison system, and if it’s not worth a cent in tax increases it’s hard to […]
“Some law professors and even a larger number of journalists praised Scalia for his literary style. That style isn’t as distinctive as it seems at first. Certainly it’s distinctive among Sup
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There are lots of reasons why aspiring foreign policy students should consider the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce over the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. One of the most important is that the administration of the University of Kentucky is consistently able to spell the word “university.”
Horrible.
If NY-26 has taught us anything, it’s that it would take Mark Penn-level incompetence to screw up the political gift that even remotely marginal Republican legislators gave their prospective Dem
This hasn’t really been picked up by the media, but according to Prost Amerika Soccer, FIFA is entertaining the possibility of overturning Qatar’s sensible victory in hosting the 2022 World Cup. Slightly more here at The Guardian. Of course, refusing to rule out a re-vote is likely a ploy, given that current FIFA chief Sepp […]
It’s hard to imagine that this Jacob Weisberg is the same one who just last month was praising Paul Ryan’s plan to have an army of unicorns descend from the heavens and land on the backs o
Looks like the media will need to look for another Republican Daddy to sweep in (or GOP elites have decided on somebody else.)