We Hunted the Mammoth has the latest on #GamerGate. Spoiler Alert: women are being harassed into leaving the gaming world. It’s pretty great. So great, one guy turned around slowly in a chair, stroked a cat and said “The dominoes are falling. We are winning. It’s brilliant.” THIS GUY: @subtleblend @jennatar @xMattieBrice The dominos are […]
Month: September 2014
On this episode of Foreign Entanglements, I talk with Al Mauroni about the future of the nuclear triad:
This is a comforting thought: The most obvious explanation for Russia’s high mortality—drinking—is also the most puzzling on closer examination. Russians drink heavily, but not as heavily as Cze
In other news, if you enjoy doing drugs, my twitter feed may be just what the doctor ordered this evening. What am I doing noone asked? Wearing one of Joe Don Baker's old suits and and enjoying the heady scent of sweat, beer and polyester. — MITCHELL! (@vacuumslayer) September 5, 2014 @Wordbeast I'm trying to […]
Dalia Lithwick on the mordant irony of a, as lawyers would say, “factually innocent” man being used by Justice (speaking loosely) Scalia as an exemplar of why it’s important to keep
A reminder that as of now the offer to Salaita is still outstanding, and UIUC’s trustees can still do the right thing and honor their commitment. If you haven’t already, you can send a res
The architects of the Halbig litigation are very, very upset that the “political” D.C. Circuit would use its explicit authority under the phony-baloney so-called “Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure” to grant an en banc hearing and vacate the risible panel opinion. Their arguments may fail to persuade you: Since that opinion made Bush v Gore […]
Balko is doing some extraordinary and important work here: “She was crying as I explained the situation to her,” Voss says. “So then I started to cry as I explained it her. One of the really f
Can the contributions of a general who died seventy years before the first powered flight lend us some tools for thinking about airpower? Apropos of another recent LGM conversation, it may be that tim
Charles has the juiciest excerpt from Richard Posner’s tour de force opinion holding the same-sex marriage bans in jurisdictions covered by 7CA unconstitutional. But it’s worth reading in its entirety. Here’s the bottom line: Our pair of cases is rich in detail but ultimately straight-forward to decide. The challenged laws discriminate against a minority defined […]
Well, this brings together a couple of LGM obsessions: Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur that has taken the crown for largest terrestrial ani
When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all white, older men. It was Jack Benny, Fred Allen