Too many worthy stories today, too little time to write them up. If humans playing football suffer concussions, why don't woodpeckers? Oliver Stone directing a film about Robert Moses based on Caro's The Power Broker sounds very unpromising. The drought in the Southwest affects all...
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I have a piece up at Alternet about the myth of Robert Bork. Nocera's representative whining notwithstanding, the defeat of Bork wasn't unprecedented, it wasn't obstructionist, it was justified, and.
Yesterday, Occupy Oakland approved a motion for a general strike, to be called for November 2. I'm curious to see where this goes. General strikes have always had trouble gaining.
Why on earth would Mitt Romney wade into the SB-5 fight in Ohio? John Kasich's union-busting bill is extremely unpopular and is about to go down to a crushing defeat. Given Obama's somewhat surprising resiliency in the southern and western states he won (and also...
Neyer has more on Scioscia trying to rationalize his horrible misjudgment of Napoli. A few points: The Napoli for an $85 million anvil deal is the most irrational organizational move.
I've been making it through the many Looney Tunes collections over the past couple of years. Last night, I watched "I Love to Singa" for the first time in a.
On this date in 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, the leader of the movement known as Bacon's Rebellion, died of dysentery. This effectively ended the rebellion, an event that helped entrench slavery as the labor system of the American South. The first African slaves arrived in Jamestown...
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Irin Carmon has an excellent piece about the "Personhood Amendment" being proposed in Mississippi, which should be read in its entirety. The key issues under discussion: That’s partly because the.
Over the past few months I've found that, when it comes to the crisis facing law students and graduates -- and therefore, eventually, law schools -- law faculty and administrators tend to fall into four categories, which can be analogized to the categories people fall...
Another reminder.
Seriously? When Taylor Branch and his wife, Christy, exchanged vows in 1978, Branch had to do more than promise to remain faithful through sickness and health: he also had to.