From all at LGM, please have a happy, safe New Year celebration!
Month: December 2013
Some good news for the new year: In what the Pentagon called a “significant milestone” in the effort to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military announced Tuesday that the United St
“Law Grad Working Retail” is a new blog, authored by a 2013 law school graduate who got no-offered by a fancy firm (This means he wasn’t offered a post-graduation position as an asso
A far from exhaustive list of some of the strongest journalism I read this year: Haley Sweetland Edwards on the power of special interests in the rule-making process and the rent-seeking of medical practitioners. Monica Potts on people living in budget hotels. Ariel Levy’s shattering piece on her miscarriage. Michael Grabell on temps. Josh Levin […]
Is there an industry as profoundly immoral as the apparel industry, where rich people in rich countries can create a production process where poor people in poor countries die and the fashion and appa
I’m not too big on the idea of hero, but there is something about the person persecuted for making others’ lives better that gets to me. One of the greats passed away yesterday. Dr. Kennet
Yesterday I quoted a column by George Will, which concluded with the absurd implication that because “Oklahoma” is derived from a compound of two Choctaw words which taken together mean “red people,” Pajama Boy and his ilk are engaging in liberal fascism etc. by trying to force the Washington football franchise from changing its now-offensive […]
In yesterday’s post on the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Joe B in comments pointed us out to the official MSHA statistics on mine deaths between 1900 and 2012. It’s remarkable.
Oregon wins. When I arrived at the University of Oregon in the autumn of 1992, Nick Aliotti was the linebackers coach. He was shortly promoted to defensive coordinator, and after several years of tu
Even if we agree that Irish whiskey is not the equivalent of that made in Scotland or Kentucky, it’s still usually worth drinking and you are probably consuming more than you used to drink.
Are your eyes deceiving you or are you really looking at Ted Cruz giving the “THIS GUY” finger point to a Constitution tree sprouting pre-historic-sized butterflies? Nope. It’s the second one. A
Some links for the penultimate day of 2013… Interesting stuff on how the Russians think about BVR (Beyond Visual Range) air combat. Penultimate call for Duck of Minerva 2013 blogging award nomin