I got sick of the means after about 10 minutes. But it's worth considering the possibility that the ends are dubious as well. In particular, I agree with Salmon about the "raising awareness" point. Raising awareness about AIDS was valuable in itself because the disease...
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Good piece by Erwin Chemerinsky on how judicial doctrines of immunity make it difficult to get effective remedies for abuses of power by local authorities: Because it is so difficult.
ESPN is veering into Robbie George territory here. Like George, their desperate search for a reason gay people living normal human lives and doing normal human things ought to be.
I almost feel bad for the attorneys representing the states here. I can't say I'd want to come before Richard Posner with nothing but empty tautologies either: Judge Richard Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, was dismissive when Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Timothy...
Via Chait, who engages in some entertaining mockery of the embarrassing bad faith summit between Frank and West, we can see a somewhat more measured argument in the same vein.
Memories of Butter? This is an acceptable name for something only if dairy cows have been obliterated by whichever flavor of apocalypse comes home to roost. In between shifts at.
LGM frequenter and all-around great polar bear, N_B has suggested a doggerel thread. I love the idea. Write your corny, bad poetry here! Two rules: 1.) the poetry must be inspired by either wingnuts or wingnuttery in general and 2.) let's keep Nantucket out of...
A conservative writer has options. They could, for example, pursue journalism. Alternatively, they could join with Tucker Carlson and do whatever it is that the Daily Caller does. One of.
The NFL is now retroactively applying its belief that musicians who perform at the Super Bowl should not only pay for the privilege, but should also pay the NFL for.
Earlier this year, the Regents of the University of Kansas ended academic freedom in the state, making something called the "improper use of social media" a firable offense for tenured faculty. But give them this: they were honest about what they were doing. Phyllis Wise...
Dylan Matthews dug up Neil Genzlinger's New York Times' original review of The Wire. To say the least, it hasn't aged well. It's all served up in dialogue heavy with.
This is some disturbing footage. In Petersburg, Virginia, the police arrested people next door to the home of JaQuan Fisher. He started recording them. The police then attacked Fisher violently..