When I called it torture, I meant it. Imagine being sprayed with a concentrated dose of something more than ten times hotter than a habanero pepper, or nearly 1000 times hotter than a jalapeno pepper. Hence: We were never warned that we were going to be...
With the NBA not happening and college football over, it's time to start talking baseball. Let's begin with this from Jason Brannon and Rob Neyer: Resolved: Albert Pujols is not.
A bit of an older piece now, but Ian Angus and Simon Butler provide some real solid evidence to a point I have made repeatedly--that overpopulation is far from the.
Who could have guessed that energy companies would wildly exaggerate the economic benefit pipelines bring to local communities! Here are the tax dollar promises TransCanada promised South Dakota counties and what they are actually paying: Marshall County: $937,804.50 promised; $286,280.98 actually paid; Clark County: $1,369,565,98 promised;...
A good Chris Fan piece at Hyphen asking a question that has plagued social movements for a long time--why do solidly progressive politicians end up siding with forces of order.
This is yet another classic example of Rust Belt media bias. Personally if I see one more HBO special about the Tigers-Indians rivalry I'm going to puke. Meanwhile Derek Jeter.
David Segal's latest NYT piece in his continuing series of articles on the (dys)functions of legal education features among other things some calculations regarding the exponential growth in both the amount of legal scholarship that's being published by American law school faculty, and the cost of...
Mickey Kaus Democrat and creepy Eyes Wide Shut costume store owner Pat Caddell argues once again that Obama should step aside in 2012...because he's just too partisan. It's enough to.
"I don't think it's appropriate for me to resign at this moment," said UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, after her decision to order peaceful protestors removed from campus had completely.
Really loving the NYT's Disunion blog. Loomis probably knew who William Brownlow was, but I had never heard of him: Fancying himself a modern Isaiah, Brownlow declared on the masthead, “Cry Aloud and Spare Not.” He wrote scathing harangues excoriating all things he despised, including, but...
Akhil Amar and Ian Ayres have a piece in Slate that features an ingenious scheme for requiring law schools to tie their own financial welfare more closely to that of.
Shorter Verbatim Regent of the Kingdom of UC Davis Linda Katehi: "I do not think that I have violated the policies of the institution. I have worked personally very hard.