I have to say that Wonkette really delivers the best piece on the recent insanity: On the internet, this sort of comment is pretty much what you call “mild.” However, Erik Loomis is not merely an academic; he is also a blogger at Lawyers, Guns & Money, and so he is someone whose comments get […]
Month: December 2012
Charlotte Allen would like to inform her critics that her logical and factual errors are central to her point. The only interesting thing about Allen’s response is that apparently Erik’s n
“when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, he’d been confronted by qualified armed security?” asked Wayne LaPierre earlier today? We donR
Shorter Pierce, Serwer, and MacGillis: Bring me the head of Wayne LaPierre.* *A note for our illiterate readers: I am not suggesting that any of these gentlemen are literally advocating the kidnapping or decapitation of Mr. LaPierre. Rather, I am using a reference to an obscurish Sam Peckinpah** movie to suggest that they, correctly, believe […]
According to most measures, the United Kingdom is a considerably [*] more violent society than the United States. 2.8% of the British experience assault compared with 1.2% of Americans. Rape, 0.9
The law school that employs me as a tenure-track faculty member has what I hope is a fairly unusual practice: Each year faculty members — I’m unclear whether this includes the non-tenure-t
This collection of quotes from Robert Bork, the towering intellect whose defeated Supreme Court nomination was the greatest injustice in known human history, is another sad manifestation in the politics of personal destruction. If there’s a dirtier form of politics that quoting Bork’s own words, I don’t know what it is. And they actually left […]
Wayne LaPierre at the National Rifle Association press conference this morning: And here’s another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal. There exists in this country, sadly, a
The word hero is used way too often in our society for any number of reasons. But actual heroes exist. One of them was the AIDS activist Spencer Cox, who died this week at the age of 44. He helped sav
The fact that milk prices could go up as high as $8 a gallon because of a Truman-era policy that kicks in without a new farm bill is exhibit #113421 that we need a serious reexamination of our entire broken agricultural policy.
Last week Dan Nexon of Duck of Minerva and I had a long conversation on political science and the blogopsphere. Check it out. We are also preparing to move forward on an LGM podcast series. Details no
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