(1) A very significant thing happened at the ABA Section of Legal Education Standards Review Committee meeting (I can already see readers' eyes glazing over) on Friday, which hasn't yet been noted by the legal academic blogosphere. Per the ABA Journal: At its meeting Friday, the...
I'm so old I remember I remember when Christopher Caldwell was supposed to be a reasonable, moderate, thinking person's reactionary. At least the last of those still applies: Western critics.
As part of some homework so I could write about Philip Seymour Hoffman when I'm ready, I tweeted today that the Alfred Molina drug deal sequence in Boogie Nights was.
Wow. Michael Sam, an All-American defensive lineman from Missouri Tigers and the Associated Press' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay in interviews with ESPN's "Outside the Lines" and the New York Times on Sunday. Sam stated publicly what his teammates and...
Something we discussed in comments this weekend came up in the last Jambaroo of the year. Magary made the point more directly a couple weeks ago: Anytime a team like.
Richard Overy's The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 catalogs the strategic bombing campaigns of the European theater of World War II. Overy covers the two best-known campaigns-- the Blitz and the Combined.
Last night, Oklahoma State's star basketball player Marcus Smart went into the stands and shoved a Texas Tech fan. The initial reaction was typical--Smart's a bad apple, he's blowing his career being stupid, etc. See Myron Medcalf who claims, "It’s too early to know exactly what...
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: "This new Democratic argument about how it's good that people will no longer be dependent on their current employer for insurance is, apart from the fact that.
The more parents who opt out of making their children go through the pointless and educationally destructive Common Core standardized testing that is the fad of Rheeist politicians of both.
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill to make the state's poultry producers pay a whole 5 cents a bird to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed from runoff from these incredibly polluting facilities. Governor Carcetti O'Malley has backed away from such legislation in the past, afraid of...
Alyssa Rosenberg and Matt Lewis talk about the legacy of Philip Seymour Hoffman:
Have you ever wondered what that inveterate old racist crank William F. Buckley thought about The Beatles? Luckily, now you can find out. From September 13, 1964: The Beatles are.