Monday, February 28, 2011

A question Google *doesn't* answer

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I'm reading Robert Blake's life of Disraeli, and quoted is a line from an 1868 Commons debate in which Dizzy is rebuking some Tory r...
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"And we don't mean look like James Franco at the Oscars."

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Marauding Gay Hordes Drag Thousands Of Helpless Citizens From Marriages After Obama Drops Defense Of Marriage Act WASHINGTON—Reports continu...

There's a reason it's not called "audio-visual argument"

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Howard Bashman muses on handouts or visual aids at oral argument: For reasons that I'd be more than happy to discuss further in the eve...

Why the Ten Commandments?

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The Volokh blog notes a Virginia public high school's prohibition of students' posting the Ten Commandments (but not other, non-rel...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I mean, I've never seen Qaddafi and Iron Man in the same room ...

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Saw this pic at Sullyblog , and it disturbed me. Because however clever it was to kidnap Qaddafi and insinuate Robert Downey, Jr. in his pla...
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Q. How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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A. 0.99999...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Well, these deck chairs are looking good now, if only the ship weren't tilting!

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New York’s top court officials will bar the state’s hundreds of elected judges from hearing cases involving lawyers and others who make sign...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

An armchair revolutionary (in the best possible sense)

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The NYT has a fascinating little profile of a man studied intently by some of the Egyptian protesters -- Gene Sharp from Boston, MA . Few Am...

"Curveball" gloats at pwn'g Germans, U.S.

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Via Tom Ricks , the Iraqi defector who lied about Saddam's alleged WMDs now gloats that he made all that shit up, and it worked! As Cur...
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Must be that lifetime-appointment thing

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The Clarion-Ledger on Justice Graves's confirmation by the Senate: Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James Graves says he'll feel p...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Shouting "bitch" in a crowded theater

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It's not protected either by the First Amendment, apparently. (H/t Bashman .)
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Torture: it's good for your resumé

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Torture: it's not only not a war crime, or a felony, it's actually a career move . In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
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Of course, some wackos might carp about his birth certificate

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Egypt has a problem. The GOP has a problem. Jon Chait solves both problems at a stroke : Hosni Mubarak is hated in Egypt, but reluctant to...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

T.S. Eliot -- plagiarist!

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Well, he did say that good poets borrow, great poets steal. Via DeLong , Jim Macdonald's research has uncovered the text of "The Lo...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Diversity adversity

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Assuming that James Graves is sooner or later confirmed as a judge on the Fifth Circuit bench, that will leave not only a vacancy on the Mis...
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