Pretty much everything Caple says here is right, but this is especially important: I would agree more with your pompous Hall of Fame voting stance if it weren’t so hypocritical, inconsistent and impossible to defend. First, how can you reasonably justify withholding a vote for steroid use but not amphetamine use? Amphetamines became illegal two […]
Year: 2011
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“I don’t understand why people used to call it ‘quartering’ when your body ends up in five pieces. I guess they didn’t consider the head or the chest to be very important
Via Jason Sigger’s comment feed in response to Rob’s rant about progressive defense policy, Dick Destiny draws our attention to an interesting comparison: For 2011, “[more] than $2 billion will be used to purchase unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, which the Obama administration has used increasingly over the past year to target suspected terrorist hideouts […]
In my experience, almost any discussion (including this one) of “originalism,” somebody will bring up a distinction between “original intent” and “original meaning.”
This is an interesting and perhaps unintended consequence of the legal challenge against California’s Proposition 8. The 9th Circuit panel considering the appeal to Prop 8’s (un)constitu
This is Noon’s department, but any last shred of “scientific” justification for the autism/vaccine connection is dead: The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research. The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield […]
Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann at the New America Foundation are keeping one of the most useful datasets on drone strike fatalities that I know of. They’ve been tallying reports of strikes
As if to provide a perfect example for Dahlia Lithwick’s demonstration of the superficial and selective nature of Tea Party reverence for the Constitution, Steve King has decided to open the new
I put the word “slow” in the title of the course with the unsatisfactory title because it’s defining feature of menace: if something is stationary, it’s unthreatening; if something is celeritous, it’s frightening. For something to be menacing requires pacing. Tension does not “build” in films: it must be built. Moreover, like all well-built things, […]
Alomar was a slam dunk once the idiot “first ballot” convention was dispensed with, and his name was on 90% of the ballots. Blyleven’s election (79.8%) is a bit of a tribute to the p
is undemocratic and evil, unless it suits your agenda. Both houses of Congress tweak their rules on the first day of a new session. The rule changes for the 112th Congress, while not revolutionary,