Althouse has devoted another post to figuring out my previous one because, according to her, it contained “strange levels of complexity.” It didn’t. She then completely misreads the update to that post, claiming that I “beg in the most pusillanimous fashion that [Althouse] should pity [me] because [I] could be fired.” Professor? Someone whose life […]
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I went over to Althouse‘s and wrote a number of insanely offensive comments, but everyone started agreeing with me before I could declare “April Fools’!” Please ignore commen
According to The Guardian, “managers” hired by universities in the UK have increased a modest 33% in the last five years. Academic staff have increased by 10% in that time (not my depart
I know we’ve dealt with part of this already, but here’s more Goldberg tendentiousness: Lepore mentions that the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the Buck v. Bell case, led by liberal hero Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a passionate eugenicist who considered “building a race” to be at the core of reform. Did Holmes and his […]
Wrongful Death asks: If the courts rule that the federal government can force you to buy a product produced by a private company or pay a punitive tax, then why can’t the federal government force yo
Robert Samuelson gives away the show: Obama’s behavior resembles a highly indebted family’s taking an expensive round-the-world trip because it claims to have found ways to pay for it. It&
This weekend Glenn Reynolds noted that a “plausible” explanation for Barack Obama’s unwillingness to give the current Israeli government 100% of what it wants (Obama has drawn the line at 98.44%) is that our dusky Muslim overlord “just hates Israel and hates Jews.” Some rather compelling evidence for this theory can be found here. Why, […]
The LGM Bracket Challenge has become a tale of unimaginable horror, but I think I’ve figured out how it ends: M. Sandiford is in the lead, and wins with 1320 points if West Virginia wins the cha
Arguments that the requirement to buy insurance or pay a tax in the Affordable Care Act are unconstitutional are not very convincing. But apparently we’re going to see some that are much, much w
I largely agree. After buying and watching all five seasons of The Wire last year, I struggled with an internal debate: was it better than Homicide Life on the Street? While The Wire is justifiably lauded on this island as either the best or very close to the best television ever produced, HLOTS never really […]
More please: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appoint
It always intrigues me to be told that by thinking differently from the herd (a hallmark of progressivism) I must actually be a faux progressive. Recently, for challenging my government’s use of rac