If you’ve been waiting for Ann Althouse to enter the debate about the constitutionality of the debt ceiling, you’re in luck! If you want to learn something, well, you’re crazy. And you’re also out of luck, since her response is written in Vacuous Wingnut Buzzword rather than English. Her addition to Laurence Tribe’s op-ed, in […]
Month: July 2011
The scary thing is that the administration’s actions suggest that they actually believe this nonsense: President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won
. . . President Bachmann. There’s a good joke somewhere in all this involving The Turner Diaries, The Book of Revelation, and Bachmann Turner Overdrive.
At Information Dissemination, we get awards. What have you done for me lately, LGM?
Is it too early to start saying “Please let it be Romney?” The jobless rate rose to 9.2 percent in June from 9.1 percent in May, the Labor Department said, as the economy added a meager 18
A couple of weeks ago, the WaPo had an interesting enough article on cancelled military programs: The Army’s Comanche helicopter was envisioned as “the quarterback of the digital battlefield,” a
Williams, Earl Weaver, and Billy Martin were all similar men: tough SOBs who didn’t care if the toes they stepped on were wearing cleats or Italian loafers. I was 13 at the time of the Mike Andrews incident, and it was the first thing of that type that genuinely shocked me. It was a stark […]
Pelosi was apparently blindsided by the announcement of Obama’s plan to cut Social Security as part of the ransom to end a hostage situation largely of his own making. Given that in the inclusio
Sometimes it’s hard to be a liberal Giving all your love to just one man You’ll have bad times And he’ll have good times Doing things that you don’t understand But if you love him you’ll for
There are few scholars whose research I’ve benefited from more than David Garrow’s, so I’d like to think that the last argument was attributed to him misleadingly: David Garrow, a Cambridge University historian who follows the court, said Ginsburg’s situation points to an institutional problem for the court, “the arguably narcissistic attitude that longer is […]
The perfectionist strain in American culture tends to rebel against the idea that in a well-functioning criminal justice system lots of probably-guilty people should not be convicted.
I love this take on Kevin Smith: It would be hard to count the number of times Kevin Smith has justified his filmmaking by explaining in his Comic Book Guy voice that he just makes “dick-and-far