If anyone is interested, I am participating in a panel at HuffPo Live at 9:30 on workplace safety. In part at least, it will deal with the piece I wrote last week on applying workplace safety law internationally and holding corporations accountable for deaths caused...
Month: April 2013
The most important aspect of Jason Collins's decision to become the first theoretically employable openly gay male in a major American sport isn't that this "accomplishment" requires that many qualifiers,.
I wanted to share some quotes and links I found while I was out and about today. And by out and about I mean while sitting on my ass, indoors,.
President Obama proclaimed yesterday "Workers Memorial Day." That would have been a much better thing if the president had mentioned anything about the recent deaths in West, Texas or even in Bangladesh, something that would provide real meaning to the proclamation. Alas, no. His most...
Defending Tim Tebow's NFL performance requires some remarkable feats of illogic. In a classic of the genre, JfL provides the most tendentious statistical argument this side of Reinhart/Rogoff: It’s hilarious.
This Urban Institute report regarding wealth disparities and race/ethnicity is getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the report manipulates statistics to push a dubious conclusion, instead of emphasizing a progressive.
As Ezra Klein and others have said, there's no question that the Republicans have totally defeated the Democrats on all issues sequester. Caving on the FAA was politically almost inevitable and will probably set the stage for Republicans to roll back other parts of the...
Finally, the active Big 4 sports professional athlete barrier is broken, as Wizards center Jason Collins comes out as gay. Let's hope it's the first of many. It'd be nice.
I dunno, somehow I prefer Scalia's belligerent, protesting-too-much defenses of his bad faith in Bush v. Gore to O'Connor's attempts to disassociate herself: “Obviously the court did reach a decision.
The end of an error that was highly erroneous even by Jets standards. I wonder if he'll find another sucker team that Just Wants To Win Football Games. Geno Smith actually seems like a solid second round pick in this draft class, although the best...
I know we coffee-drinking blue-state elitists are not supposed to care about George Jones (about Teachout's uncharacteristic cliched falsehood, I note only that the kind of Nashville country urban music.
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov is a new biography of Field Marshal Georgy.