Ann Althouse is trying to defend Antonin Scalia as not being motivated by an opposition to gay and lesbian rights in the jurisprudence that consistently disfavors their interests. David Savage characterizes Scalia (correctly) as arguing that the law "can and should enforce moral standards." According...
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As always on the subject, what Roy said. There seem to be serious questions about whether the portrayal of Zero Dark Thirty as being pro-torture is accurate. But even if.
I'm reluctant to tease Yeselson's piece on the Michigan loss last week because it's all excellent, but this general point is a good introduction to the specific claims about the.
Dayen has this covered fairly well (although I don't endorse the ad hominem bits), but I still have a some things to say about Jon Chait's call for a pre-emptive surrender on raising the Medicare eligibility age. First of all, Yglesias is right that it's...
The Rays v. the Royals -- hard to imagine a bigger mismatch. ..see also.
Shorter Ann Althouse: clearly, more handguns are the solution to domestic violence, and if you're skeptical that having guns would have saved Kasandra Perkins it's because you deny the agency.
The cult of false equivalence.
My guess is that the Court will strike down both Section 3 of DOMA and Prop 8 on narrow rational basis grounds. On the former, I'm confident; on the latter,.
Gary Bettman. I would just like to note that making a 5-year maximum contract the "hill you want to die on" is completely irrational even on its own terms. I.
Bret Easton Ellis. Yes, now that we're letting the hot wimmens direct films, American meritocracy is over. I can't believe we would allow The Hurt Locker to degrade a Best Picture award that should be reserved for true totems of artistic excellence like Crash, Forrest...
As with Naomi Wolf's latest entryVagina: All Women Are, Or At Least Should, Be Exactly Like Me In Every Respect, Ross Douthat's musings about "decadent" women who believe that breeding.
Nocera continues his great work: In the U.S.C. case, the N.C.A.A. made a series of allegations about Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, the most memorable of which was.