An old Roy Edroso post makes a relevant point: The big news was the historic redress of an old, shameful shortcoming on Oscar's part. I speak of course of Randy Newman's Best Song Oscar. Newman has written several great albums, and some fine film scores, but...
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Wow, what a kick in the teeth. While marginally better than the overrated Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator was minor Scorsese; we're not talking 1980 or 1990 here. But given the number of.
"When uniformity is compromised, then authority no longer holds." This reminds me of my favorite part of John Holbo's famous review of Dead Right: This sentiment or intuition or feeling (whatever.
Shorter Sebastian Holsclaw: "The decision of the Kansas Attorney General to create a new policy, exceptionally invasive of the most intimate privacy and transparently overbroad if its purpose was to enforce late-term abortion statutes, proves that pro-choicers are unprincipled." Wow, I can't wait for further applications of this...
TBogg offers some choice questions for the Pervert General of Kansas, while Dr. B and the deservedly Koufax-annoited Mouse Words offer further analysis (the latter with bonus Texas coverage.) Pro-choicers are, of course,.
Justice Thomas yesterday in Johnson v. CA, the temporary prison segregation case: Indeed, Johnson concedes that it would be perfectly constitutional for California to take account of race "as part of an.
Yglesias finds Anne Applebaum going to the nearly inevitable stage 2 of teleological arguments that attempt to justify systematic inequalities: arguing that whether patterns are innate or socially constructed doesn't matter. As it happens, Charles Murray himself tried that routine on for size. From his 1994 New...
I think that this part of Stephanie Mencimer's first-round knockout of Stuart Taylor's tort"reform" hackwork deserves special emphasis: Even if the tort tax were an accurate reflection of the tort.
While--as I will get around to explaining in detail soon--I still strongly disagree with him that Roe v. Wade was counterproductive, I think that Nathan Newman is correct about Kelo v. New London. This.
It's not exactly news that Powerline's Hindrocket is a world-class scumbag. But I didn't realize that he was an anti-evolution crank as well. And, what do you know, the extremely desperate homeless man's Dave Barry, the would-be Tocqueville of Target James Lileks is also an intelligent...
Since some people persist in maintaining the transparent falsehood that Summers was merely "asking questions" and not offering any position, let's go to the transcript: There are three broad hypotheses about.
I've tried leaving a comment on Russell Arben Fox's excellent Zhang Yimou post, but it's not working so I'll just do it here. I admired Hero a great deal more than.