Friday, September 30, 2011

Our evil twin, on killing Americans for "incitement"

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Kenneth Anderson (no relation), commenting on the killing of al-Qaeda cleric al-Awlaki: To be perfectly clear: I myself believe there will ...
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News alert: The Framers were politicians, too

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Charles Pierce waxes irate about the cult of the Tenth Amendment , which as he notes, was drafted so as not to mean anything by politicians ...

5th Circuit to ponder issuing appalling en banc decision

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Via Bashman , this news : A federal appeals court in New Orleans will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit that claims a 9-year-old girl was che...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

U.S. Capitol Police discover "satire"

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Apparently , I've been making the mistake of failing to check the Onion's Twitter feed. TPM reports: As of the latest update on Twit...

From the annals of incidental sexism

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ThinkBabyNames.com is a popular site for, uh, baby names, telling you about a name's popularity and original meaning. Here for instanc...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Reality-based diplomacy (for once, we'd eschew irony)

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LGM points us to Charles Pierce's politics blog at Esquire. Worth a look, though the lead post right now is actually by Thomas Barnett ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

American unexceptionalism

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Andrew Sullivan on America : I will never think of America the same way after the Bush-Cheney administration. They ripped the scales off my ...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

The importance of the "Oxford comma"

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Visually depicted so that you will never forget it: ( Via .) Capitalization, it seems, is a separate issue altogether.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - So expensive to ship, you'll keep it and not return it

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Jim McDonald provides this handy Product Description Glossary: •NEW - Different color from previous design. •ALL NEW - Parts are not interc...

If only we'd decided that other war on the football field

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Okay, this is pretty funny. The rest of college football formally surrendered to the Southeastern Conference Sunday, ending a decades-long w...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Brief-writing guidelines from people who read briefs.

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We've probably mentioned it before, but the 7th Circuit's typography guidelines are a great resource for the legal writer. For exam...

Winning the GOP race ... to Most Stupid Candidate

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The increasingly desperate Michelle Bachmann : I think you earned every dollar, you should get to keep every dollar that you earn . That...
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"The inexorable spread of ignorance even to the universities"

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The Times HES runs a good article on W.G. Sebald , filling in some personal details I hadn't seen before. The author suggests that The R...

Maybe if she'd said it in Law Latin? "Tace!"

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The Hon. Edith Jones of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is on a roll: first her slapdown of Judge Sam "Kindergarten Party" Spa...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

R.E.M. breaks up after 31 years

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... i.e., about 17 years too late.