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19 Dec 2007, 2:32 pm
Rationalists gone wild. I hope they get lumps of coal. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 7:12 pm
This is interesting. I fear San Diego is not very young family friendly. Housing is terribly expensive (Well, that may be changing). [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 4:48 pm
This saga of Andre J. in the NY Times has some deeper meaning; I just don't know what it is. At least I know now I should say "amaaaazing" where before I would have said "fabulous." Since I never said fabulous, however, that is not much use to me. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 3:58 pm
It's the little things that put a smile on a lawyer's face. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 8:59 pm
Hillary as RMN. I wish I had thought of that. Both foul-mouthed. Both driven, both unhappily married (but for different reasons). Both ruthless and given to seeing enemies everywhere. Both widely hated. Both opportunists and (dare we hope?) centrist? Both really socialists? Like Nixon, only more left-wing doesn't make me too happy . . . [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 6:21 pm
The Santa Ana winds are honking outside my window right now. I like them in a way. They're dramatic. But they bring with them the threat of fire. South of where I live, near the border, two people, probably illegal border crossers were caught in the flames and died. Up in Malibu, the flames are, incredibly to me, burning right down to the sand on the beach. Check out the photos from the link above. They tell you a lot of what… [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 2:38 am
Checks and balances? Separation of powers? What sort of nonsense is that? Yet, the framers made it very difficult for a party to drive the country off a cliff, and still be able to claim the other party was at the wheel. Clever, those framers. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 10:11 am
As a proud native Idahoan, I am getting tired of the Craig scandal. In the old days, this would be a matter for the classic "hunting accident." You go out with your shotgun and your dog, and they find you later next to a fence with your head blown off. People used to shoot themselves all the time trying to climb through fences with loaded shotguns. It made for an honorable way to quit being an embarrassment to yourself and others. … [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 4:11 pm
It seems like a good time to link to this piece by Blackhawk Down author Mark Bowden:The Bush Administration has adopted exactly the right posture on the matter. Candor and consistency are not always public virtues. Torture is a crime against humanity, but coercion is an issue that is rightly handled with a wink, or even a touch of hypocrisy; it should be banned but also quietly practiced. Those who protest coercive methods will exaggerate their horrors, which is good: it… [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 11:27 am
I'm not sure I follow this post by Eugene entirely. I do think that Obama has stopped wearing a flag pin in order to try to cozy up the the Democratic left. Pretty appalling. It's too bad there isn't some way to import Mexicans who want to be Americans and export Americans who want to be Canadians or whatever. I don't know that many Mexican-Americans, but ones I do know are better Americans than most, say, academics. They would… [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 2:38 pm
You can watch the 60 Minutes interview of Justice Thomas here. Maybe someday I will write I blog post about what it was like to be in Washington during the Thomas hearings. I worked at one of the big old liberal law firms that represented Anita Hill, and I watched every minute of the hearings. I can hardly describe what it was like; perhaps a little like a Jew in Atlanta might have felt watching the business with Leo Frank. I can say the spectacle figured in my… [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 10:09 pm
This opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post gets it right IMHO. I'm not sure it is fair to attribute to the Democrats in the US the lefty-Brit pro-UN view that the Taliban, Hamas, and even al-Qieda must be negotiated with. Though I'm sure some on the American left take that view. To me it is one of those views so patently ridiculous it is difficult to argue against. I think it was Machiavelli who made the point that it is always a mistake to accommodate your… [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 11:04 am
Barnard is searching for an archaeologist, but no Jews please. So just to be clear, a specialist in the culture of the ancient Middle East, specifically of the area now occupied by Israel (a.k.a. the Zionist entity), a distinguished scholar, lots of publications on so on, but not, I repeat not, a Jew. None come immediately to mind, but please, search your mind. Possibly a Jew with a long history of statements against Israel would be considered, but really, just someone… [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 1:31 pm
Alternative title: Forget it, Jake. It's California [or Orange County, or the UC system, or a law school]. Very true observations here. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 8:37 pm
Analysis of the private security mess in Iraq. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 4:13 pm
This is intriguing. Fellow Right Coaster Gail Heriot gets a mention by the OC Register as their idea of a great US Attorney General (along with Richard Epstein and a few other luminaries). Government work is all well and good, but what about tenure? [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 6:23 pm
My mother told me about this. Characteristically, she said she had a lot to be grateful for. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 8:40 pm
I found three of the toys on the Mattel recall list in our toy baskets. To wit, three of the little green jeep character named Sarge from the movie Cars. I'm not too worried. Short of sucking on the things for a few days, I don't see how my 3.7 year old could ingest enough lead to harm him. But I have disappeared the vehicles just in case. I'm not eating any more prepared food from China either. I gather it's not inspected either… [read post]
17 Aug 2007, 3:24 pm
Here's an interesting beer blog. He seems to know what he is talking about. He's from the Bay Area, but you can't always control where you live. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 2:20 pm
Yesterday I killed a snake I should not have, and I feel a little bad about it. Eldest son Luke came in from taking down the garbage to the road to report, with some intensity, that he had discovered a snake by the drive way. I asked how big it was and he said, pretty big. He took me to the spot, and I had some difficulty seeing it at first. Then I picked it out in the leaf litter, and sure enough, it was a pretty big snake, maybe 4 feet long and not… [read post]
