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That's the message of the Mississippi Supreme Court to Haley Barbour, all nine justices having signed onto an order prohibiting the Sta...

Reports the Times . One's reminded of Dorothy Parker's response when Coolidge's death was reported: "How can they tell?...

Heidegger, of course, was aware of the strangeness, indeed the nonsense, of his language. Carl Friedrich von Weisäcker once told him the Je...

That was the landmark Supreme Court decision that held inadmissible evidence derived from torture, pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment. T...

Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called 'Haiti' Less than two weeks after converging upon the site of a devasta...

TBA has always been suspicious of wishful thinking that Osama bin Laden has managed to die unassisted by the U.S. military. But his latest ...

Alaska's legislators have noticed that they've never gotten around to criminalizing bestiality . I'm not quite sure how the wor...

Our Lawyers are mere lawyers, our physicians are mere physicians, our divines are mere divines. Everything smells of the shop, and you will...

Over at the AVclub, I see that the Magnetic Fields has (have?) a new album out , a bit more along their usual lines than the hard-to-hear-th...

The Seventh Circuit (h/t Somin ) has upheld a prison ban on Dungeons & Dragons . Another urgent amendment to the Constitution is neede...

Eugene Volokh finds a gem in Rhode Island district court: ... plaintiffs proclaim that “[s]tudents should have the right to congregate and ...

" 82nd Airborne battalion commander fired ," Tom Ricks tells us, remarking that the odd thing about this is, well, how odd it is: ...

Over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald has a judicious post (and follow-up ) on why the Supreme Court's invalidation of corporation-targeted ca...

In the future, everyone will be on Wikipedia. Even " one of the last original juke joints " in a field west of Merigold, Mississip...

Remember that seemingly gratuitous Civil War battle that Sergio Leone tossed into The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ? Did you think it was a ...