So, apparently Great Satan’s Girlfriend isn’t exactly a hot COIN-nerd chick who wants to talk war and show you nifty pictures of herself in a bikini. As Spencer points out: “Courtney Messerschmidt” is a composite personality, made up of several men as well as an actual woman named Courtney. Not to mince words: it was gross […]
Month: September 2011
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (and someone who I’d recommend as a good Intrade bet for the Republican VP nominee) has made her name for cracking down on illegal immigration, in particular
One the one hand, although I understand his point I can’t go along Mike Konczal’s quasi-defense of Drew Westen. Ignoring Westen’s theory of politics is very much an “apart from
Chances that I would pay the faculty discount rate of $38 to watch the Kentucky Wildcats host the Central Michigan Chippewas at Commonwealth Stadium? Decent enough, until I read the following: Q: Does my infant/toddler need a ticket for a football game? A: Yes. All individuals, regardless of age, must have a ticket to enter […]
We sometimes don’t immediately think of the history of slavery as labor history, but of course, it’s absolutely fundamental to any understanding of labor history in the American South (and
The Longshoremen’s strike in Longview, Washington, which I have discussed before, has gone hard-core, with union members “unofficially” deciding to bust up the offending company̵
Question: Why does this video evoke what I can only describe as a feeling of moral disgust? The last few seconds are just horrible; I was thinking “Just. Kill. It. Out of its misery, please.” And it’s goddamn washing machine, not even a car or any of the other inanimate objects that we often associate […]
Neither majority decided on the merits; they were rejected on standing and ripeness grounds, respectively. Much more about this later, although for know I’ll say that I was happy to see Judge Mo
Perhaps the most telling moment in last night’s GOP debate was the crowd twice cheering the 234 executions Rick Perry has presided over. This would be grotesque enough if this high rate of execu
George Will — whose commentary about the courts in the past tended towards banalities about how judicial opinions that George Will disagrees with “diminish democracy”* — comes out for Lochner. Seems about right… *That Roe column is a classic, larded with ridiculous empirical claims. Not only the countermobilization myth, but “probably no state would outlaw […]
I’ve generally supported Barack Obama’s labor strategies. His appointment of people like Craig Becker to the NLRB have made real changes in working people’s lives. Yet Obama has been
I found the comments that are being posted in response to the latest analysis of how utterly “misleading” (to put it as nicely as possible) law school employment numbers are to be particul