Alterman is on the case:It is a sad but true fact of American political life that liberals rarely exercise so much influence as when they happen to be endorsing conservative causes, and this temptation has proven consistently irresistible to Peretz and his magazine. TNR under Peretz...
Welp. After that very kind introduction (though now I may never drink the water 'round these parts), here I am. As Scott mentioned, I'm a rising 3L at an NYC.
"Aw, if they hire a woman we won't be able to spit on the floor.""And we can't take off our pants when it gets real hot.""And we won't be able.
Marcy Wheeler points us to this story about the administration's call for mandatory minimum sentences in light of a Supreme Court ruling that federal sentencing guidelines are merely advisory. (This will be tested in an upcoming Supreme Court case where a judge's decision to ignore a...
Shorter Ace O. Spades, Heterosexual, as linked by nonpartisan libertarian Glenn Reynolds: "Gay men aren't actually men."
I'm going to be fiddling with and experimenting on the LGM template for the next couple of hours. Hopefully, actual downtime will be brief....got farther that time. Progress!!!...okay, so still.
At the risk of commenting on something that I have no business commenting on, I think Mona gives Mark Steyn too much credit here:Mark Steyn actually has something insightful to say about the inherent risks of any nationalized, single payer health care scheme: namely, all taxpayers...
The Times on the Bowles decision:If the Supreme Court, with its new conservative majority, wanted to announce that it was getting out of the fairness business, it could hardly have.
In 1921, British support helped raise a capable, 43 year old Brigadier General named Reza Khan to prominence on the Persian political scene. Reze Khan had performed well as head.
Really, what can you even say about Insta/House at this point? It's all merely unserious in an offensive way until rape threats and defamation are equated with criticizing other people's blog posts. See also here.
Bleg:Are there ethical gemstones? I'm familiar with the problems that diamonds present; artificial scarcity creates incentives for illicit mining and consequent warlord depredation in Africa. Is there a similar story.
In a 5-4 division of justices I'm already sick of, on Thursday the Supreme Court overruled two precedents to throw out an appeal to a murder conviction as being outside.