Kudos to Judge Amy Berman Jackson for her response to Darell Issa’s assertion that federal court employees should be forced to work for free to deal with Issa’s lawsuit over the “Fast And Furious” pseudo-scandal: There are no exigent circumstances in this case that would justify an order of the Court forcing furloughed attorneys to […]
Month: October 2013
If you’re in need of a little levity, sometime commenter, Batocchio, sent me a link to this. This excerpt…the star being unable to gracefully exit an outhouse…feels like a metaphor f
This essay on Obama campaign staffers finding his likely approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline deeply disturbing and conflicting is really interesting, not because of what the story says but because of
I have a piece up at Labor Online about the difficulties of meaningful coalition building between the AFL-CIO and other progressive organizations. An excerpt: But of course the American union movement is diverse and fractured. Some unions have embraced the relationships with the NAACP and Sierra Club. But others, particularly in the trades, are somewhere […]
This is the first of a two part podcast. The second part will be available on Monday. Works Attewell discusses (warning, all of these posts contain spoilers for all five books): Bran IV (introducing t
From Robert Barnes’s interesting profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: So Ginsburg understands politics but does not feel she faces a deadline to leave so that Obama, whom she admires, can choose her
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Fox News hosts wouldn’t know the difference between Mexico and Nicaragua and probably assumes they all wear sombreros and take siestas.
The BBC reports that General Vo Nguyen Giap has died at the age of 102. Obviously, one of the most important military figures of the post-WWII 20th century. Â People’s War, People’s Army i
My latest at the Diplomat examines the USAF’s strategy with respect to the sequester and the Pacific Pivot: Last week, at the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference, questions about
I’m rather horrified by conservative reaction to the shutdown. Not just because it demonstrates their toddler-level pettiness, but also because it demonstrates, graphically, that conservatives don’t understand what government is. This is the only way to explain their prostrate-on-the-floor, flailing, squalling reaction to closing of various public spaces. Apparently conservatives wanted to think that shutting […]
I’ll take Jim Boeheim’s assertions about how his players don’t merit compensation seriously as soon as he agrees to be paid the average associate professor’s salary and volunte
The Republican Party’s primary mission is to punish the poor.