I saw "Inherit the Wind" last night. There's a scene during the trial in which the judge bans virtually all of the defense's witnesses on the grounds that they -- scientists and experts on evolution -- are irrelevant.I couldn't help but think of that scene reading...
Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, who has been a good source of material for quite some time in these here parts, is looking for work. I assume he's going to keep his part-time.
This has got to be a joke.The most creative way to use a cat as a weapon happened in World War II. The United States’ OSS (Office of Strategic Services,.
I'm no Rushdie scholar, so I don't know if the "fashionable academic-intellectual left" really does hate Salman Rushdie. It would have been nice, however, if Geoffrey Wheatcroft had cited a single specimen from that class in his article about people who don't like Rushdie, rather than...
Holbo on the range of acceptable debate among the Bealtway elite and its implications for assertions about whether parties have "new ideas" and "vigorous debates":Let’s take it from the top:.
Amazingly, the appalling Scottsboro Boys/Duke analogy has reared its ugly head again in the pages of the nation's most prestigious clearinghouse for irrational wingnuttery, with (natch) a hearty heh-indeed from.
Ye gods. I guess this is the "nuclear option" in all future YouTube wars...by the way, who is the other singer in the video?...Apparently this was widely linked a while ago. But clearly it's more relevant than ever!
To those who demand competent acting, I say "Vaffanculo!"I, for one, am happy that an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is taking jurisprudential lessons from sixth-rate torture porn. What's.
At the gym this morning, I glanced up at the TV screen to see this question scrawled out across the screen below Matt Lauer's talking head:"Are the Democrats too Liberal?".
I have an article up at TAP about the recent rejection of an anti-gay constitutional amendment in Massachusetts and its implications for claims that using litigation is a counterproductive strategy. I also discuss the extent to which normative attacks on Goodridge rarely come from any kind...
Matt notes that libertarians may be irrationally unsympathetic to Michael Bloomberg because of his support for relatively trivial nanny state regulations like public smoking and trans fat bans. (As an.
Davida asks:If it's Bloomberg vs. Giuliani vs. Clinton in the general election, does Clinton become the candidate of the other 49 states?