I'm sure that this isn't literally without precedent, but the Steelers are 3 point underdogs today. I certainly can't remember a healthy home team being an underdog in a conference championship game. I can see a rational argument that this is underrating them; the Steelers...
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The best defense of Bush v. Gore was written by Richard Posner. It was still strikingly unpersuasive, but since Posner is a pragmatist it did have the advantage of not trying to.
Elton Beard catches the LA Times publishing some fake grass. (And it isn't even that shiny new Field Turf; it seems more like the worn-out turf they had at the.
As an interlude, I thought it would be useful to link to this old post, which brings up an empirical fact that rarely makes it into "counterintuitive" arguments about how the widely-despised Roe v. Wade is destroying the Democratic Party: the public favors it by a two-to-one margin....
I promise that the name of this blog will not be changed to "Scott replies to Matthew Yglesias posts about judicial policy-making," but since I promised (threatened?) a legal defense.
In honor of MLK day, David Ehrenstein has a great post on John F. Kennedy's (The "F" stands for "It's never the right time") attempts to strenuously avoid any political risk.
There are two major potential drawbacks to litigation as a strategy. One--that it is particularly likely to generate a backlash--I recently discussed. The other is captured by Matthew Yglesias's "fat and lazy" hypothesis: relying on litigation makes progressives less effectual in other political arenas. (This...
The fallacy Scott identifies in the post immediately below needs a pithy, clever name or acronym (I'm bad at this sort of thing--suggestions?), and the community of liberals needs to.
Matthew Yglesias points us to a Michael Lind article about how the Dems would win if they pandered more to middle-class suburbanites, and identifies a major problem pretty much endemic to.
Over the break I happened to screen Mystic River, which a friend wanted to see, and it holds up really well. I'm even tempted to make a half-defense of the Lady Macbeth scene, which on re-viewing seemed to be intended not to explain why Penn acted as...
Sadly, No! points us to a typically tragi-comic exchange in which our president, once again, demonstrates his inability to remember the various twists and turns in language manipulation, this time.
I suspected that the NY media would go further than Yglesias's throwaway comment after the terrific Jets/Steelers game (congrats to frequent commenter gmack!) yesterday in turning Jet kicker Doug Brien into.