Although I was under the impression that Pennsylvania had the stupidest liquor laws in the country, it turns out that Indiana is pretty competitive as well (although at least you can buy a freaking 6-pack in the Hoosier State). Of course, every stupid restrictive liquor law has its own interest group and in the case […]
Month: July 2013
Last month, I attended a session dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union struggle at the Labor and Working Class History Association conference in New York. A couple of members of the New York teacher
And by this travesty I mean the threat of Steven Spielberg directing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath, a movie I would like to think exactly 0 people would find necessary or interesting, but then again
In this day of modern technology, you can follow the Battle of Gettysburg minute by minute 150 years later. You can follow the War of 1812 200 years later. And now you can follow updates on the health of James Garfield, 122 years after he was shot. Act accordingly. In other obscure Gilded Age president […]
Chris Christie. Christie’s veto of SSM is classic example of why expanding SSM across the states isn’t going to be easy. In theory, the veto should be more politically poisonous in New
Let’s try an oh-so-rare 2013 Predictions Progress Report: World Series Champion: Cincinnati Reds Number of new Venezuelan Presidents: 1 Academy Award, Best Picture: Lincoln Afghanistan Coalition
There’s a quasi-defense of CUNY giving enough money to David Petraeus to pay 500 adjuncts, represented here, that I’ve seen multiple times: Petraeus’ salary will be paid via private fund-raising, not public tax dollars, per NYDN. This could fly as a defense of CUNY’s conduct under one circumstance only: if a fundraiser approached CUNY offering […]
Teach for America gets played at this great progressive thing. You, young bright-eyed college graduate, can go and change the world through your willpower and optimism. It taps into deeply seated noti
It’s been an eventful week in the law school world. Two law schools have announced the immediate or imminent downsizing of their faculties, while another has laid off a dozen staff people, and i
I’m very excited about having an 8:30 res at Dorsia this evening; and agonizing about what to order has somehow reminded me that several songs are now permanently intertwined in my mind with the scenes in which they’re used in various films. These include: (1) Hip To Be Square (American Psycho) (2) Suzy Q (Apocalypse […]
Give this to Tom Osborne — he was ecumenical: The penultimate chapter in the book, “A Difficult Road to Walk,” is an in-depth exploration of Osborne’s Christianity — he notes
North Carolina’s zoom to the top of the nation’s craziest state governments continues unabated, as the state Senate tacked on extreme anti-abortion restrictions to its very important law b