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26 Mar 2012, 11:51 am
If I were that country, I would be seriously embarassed. It doesn't help that everybody just thinks it's funny rather than say, unjust. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 3:50 pm
Lots of interesting posts on the individual mandate here. I have a hard time believing the Court will strike down the individual mandate. This I regard as most unfortunate in the sense that I regard the madate as being painfully and obviously unconstitutional in the special sense that if you were to try to explain the governmental powers involved to a group of persons (hypothetically gathered to hear you) who had voted to ratify the constitution of 1787, they would have a hard time… [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 10:25 am
This is cool. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 5:31 pm
Some thoughtful observations. Contemporary feminism makes me think of twentieth century fascism, probably because I happen to be reading this fascinating (those fascinatin' fascists!) book on "The Birth of Fascist Ideology." The author, Zeev Sternhell (Hebrew Univ.) emphasizes the critical role of Georges Sorel as an ideologist. Sorel had the peculiar yet strangely insightful seeming idea that myth could be as effective, and more, as economic theory (especially if it… [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 1:42 am
I can imagine it would have been a little awkward. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 9:52 am
Some very sensible commentary from Jay Cost. The MSM is eager to sell the narrative of inevitable Obama victory. Pessimistic Republicans, who tend to be pessimistic anyway -- the GOP is not the party of inside fixes sold as silly utopian dreams -- are tending to get sucked along. In fact, all we know of what is going to happen in November is that we don't know. It is like guessing whether an option on a very volatile stock with a strike price close to market will or… [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 10:22 am
This is helpful. We should eat a plant based diet that is very low in carbs. So, no meat, no fish, no eggs, no milk, no bread, no pasta, no potatoes, no wheat, no corn, no berries, no apples, no bananas, no peaches, no pears, no plums, no raisins, no wine, no beer, no booze. Nuts in moderation. Dark green leafy vegatables OK. Small amounts of olive oil. I do not pass judgment on the problematic radish. Not clear what my attitude should be toward insects and grubs-- they… [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 4:32 pm
Here is a link to a review by Scordato on Tamanaha's book on legal realism and formalism (which I actually read early in 2011 and enjoyed very much). I liked T's book, but as hard as it was on the 20th century legal realists, I don't think he was hard enough. Their version of legal history seems not just wrong, but bordering on an ideologically inspired, deliberate falsification of the past. On second thought, strike the "bordering on". But T still deserves… [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 10:50 am
This is interesting, not as more conservative whining, which I think is justified, but futile, but because it makes the observation of how complex signaling is in a political environment. I think it gets it exactly right, that while both Santorum and Obama say that marriage is between a man and a woman only, everybody knows that only Santorum actually means it, and Obama is just saying so. Quite curious. Also curious is the suggestion, which I find plausible and suspect is just flat out true,… [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 11:53 am
Invites others to do so. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 11:49 am
Timothy Noah in TNR. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 3:38 pm
What we should have learned from the fall of Soviet Communism. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 4:52 pm
Her research looks interesting -- about the importance of informal institutions. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 4:52 pm
Her research looks interesting -- about the importance of informal institutions. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 9:59 am
Newt wants a moon base. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 2:49 pm
Which would Warren Buffet's secretary prefer -- being made the national poster girl for tax victimhood or being paid more than a measley $60K a year for being personal assistant to one of the richest guys in the world? I guess the idea is she'll be happier if her boss pays more in taxes. If I were she, I would say, Warren, why not pay me some more instead of paying a lot more to the government. It would be cheaper for you to increase my salary times ten then to pay a… [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 10:14 am
Some months ago I changed the comment settings on the RC to require commentors to sign in via facebook, twitter or a similar service in order to comment. This eliminated the annoyance of comment spam, but it also eliminated most other comments as well, including those evidently of some loyal readers. Now I have switched the comment settings back to where no facebook etc. sign in is required. We'll see how this goes. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 8:41 am
Poorest member of Congress. In other news: I wonder if artists are also having strange visions and bizarre voodoo rites are occurring in the bayou. In still further news, Italian man, 99, divorces wife after finding her love letters from her ragazzo (?) from the 1940's in the attic. Morale: do not clean out the attic, read old letters or live to be 99. There's got to be an Italian saying for this. OTOH, depending on what the letters said, you can hardly blame the guy. Further proof the… [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 10:26 am
Ted Forstmann has died. That's too bad. He was one of my heros. Free market capitalist, one of the inventors of the LBO, which if you are too young to have seen it, was not just about liberating American business from the dead hand of bad management, but also about liberating American business from the WASP ascendancy and letting in the Jews, Catholics, Indians, Chinese, you name it. It was no accident that the great M&A law firms that emerged in the 70s and 80s had names like Skadden,… [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 4:31 pm
