Over at The Legal Whiteboard, Jerry Organ has been analyzing the LSAT scores of recent law school entering classes, and he’s come to the conclusion that the national entering class of 2013 has 50% more matriculants with LSAT scores of less than 150 than the class that graduated this year. (The percentage of such matriculants […]
Month: October 2013
This is sort of an addendumb to my post about Tea Partiers. This segment is worth watching for Aasif Mandvi’s 3- second hilarious interaction with the camera alone, but please do watch the whole
On October 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greate
Paul Caron quotes an anonymous source “close to the situation” as they say: New England School of Law plans to eliminate 14 fulltime faculty positions by August 1, 2014. Depending on how one counts, this is about 35-40% of the regular faculty. . . . Faculty have been told by Dean John O’Brien that these […]
I don’t mean this metaphorically: I advocate the torture* of the person/s who came up with the term “manfluencers.” *Not really, but maybe just a hard slap would be in
Is the Tea Party racist? Was there ever any doubt?
More, please: Reid rebuked the Nevada Public Radio host when he was asked what Republicans would have to concede to get Medicare and Social Security cuts on the table. “You keep talking about Medicare and Social Security. Get something else in your brain. Stop talking about that. That is not going to happen this time. […]
The assertion that the requirement that contraception be covered by health insurance plans violates RFRA and/or the 1st Amendment faces the problem that if a “burden” on religious freedom
Tonight, several comrades and I are going to “simul-tweet” an airpower film. The project is a touch more complicated than it sounds, but effectively it boils down to selecting a film, sele
I don’t want to alarm anybody, but: For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about ‘The end of antibiotics, question mark?’ Well, now I would say you can change the title to ‘The end of antibiotics, period.’ We’re in the post-antibiotic era. The interview’s from the absolutely […]
Huh. In the movie, Vincent despairs to drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz) that some “dickless piece of shit” keyed his car, but we never find out who did the deed. The screenplay, which contains (as
It is, of course, an abbreviation for “misogynist, and generally intensely angry about it.”