Monthly Archive: May 2012

This one took me a very long time to write. The subject matter was difficult and complex to research, the opinion dense, and I wanted to do the case justice. I’ve had a lot of...

[Cross-posted from NaPP] Doug Mataconis and Steven Taylor go back and forth on whether the Constitution is too hard to amend. This is an area where my instincts are to agree with Mataconis, but...

The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in the companion cases of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. Department of Health and Human Services this morning. To the surprise of...

Timothy Sandefur does some fascinating research about a purported McCarthy-era magazine ad. The truth is out there, but it turns out — horrors — to be sort of nuanced.

From Graeme McMillan at Spinoff: And then there are the shows that I accidentally skip out of synch with and all of a sudden, there’s a terrifying backlog of: Seven episodes of Mad Men?...

Maybe let them skip school sometimes.

There are so many points here where an unkind person could laugh: Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine, hoped...

From the Rural Blog: Over half of American adults favor “legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated,”

There are many things that confuse me about the liberal blogosphere. (e.g.: Why is it that even when you’re in power you seem to think the end of the world is nigh?) But the...

In doing research while watching Fringe episode “Momentum Deferred” from the second season of Fringe for the most recent Mindless Diversions Bookclub! post, I asked the question “Do people still do cryogenics?” In googling,...

Today is moving day at The Montauk Catamaran Company.

It’s leaked that homeland security or other law enforcement authorities are screening social media facilities to find plots about attacks, toxic gas incidents, drugs, gangs, violence, assassinations, and other threats by targeting certain words in...

by Deep Throat This weekend’s Leaguefest™ is finally winding down and its various members are sadly breaking off from one another, each heading back to their various points of origin. Most of what happens...

…this girl wouldn’t have to spend a day in jail and pay a fine. The nerve of some people, to think they can work to support their family and do school work and that...