He would be Todd Jones, i.e., he would(1) Inexplicably be handed a series of very important high-paying jobs; where he would(2) Suck at them; yet(3) Continue to get promoted; thereby destroying(4) The United States of America/The Detroit Tigers' season.Actually the Todd Jones Situation (and wouldn't...
Author: Paul Campos
As Jack Balkin points out, for both "legal" and "political" reasons it's unlikely that any U.S. court will prosecute war crimes committed by members of the Bush administration. This circumstance.
As I've noted elsewhere, right-wing media hacks sound more and more like old guys in bars using tired pickup lines, and nobody sounds more torn and frayed than America's leading.
A surprising development (to me at least) has been the mass media's recent rehabilitation of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The same cultural institutions that almost universally excoriated the two American athletes for giving a Black Power salute from the medals stand at the 1968...
If you've never seen Joy Nash's awesome Fat Rant you should do so soon.
Just got this breathless press release from the McCain campaign:BARACK OBAMA SAID IT!: "There's No Doubt That General Petraeus Does Not Want A Timetable"Barack ObamaMedia AvailabilityAmman, JordanJuly 22, 2008Barack Obama:.
Nicholas Carr asks Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (I started reading this but got bored so I don't know the answer).I do know that Google is the single greatest invention of the human mind since that thing Peter Frampton used to make his guitar sound...
James Q. Whitman has an interesting new book about the development of the concept of reasonable doubt in the Anglo-American legal system. An odd feature of that system is its.