It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these. I’d like to do some site upgrades,...
Year: 2012
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you’ve by now read Jan...
More about taxes, penalties, and how to tell them apart. From the majority opinion by Chief Justice...
In the mid-nineteenth century, an upstate New Yorker and prophet by the name of William Miller founded...
Kottke presents a list of really bad password requirements. I was reminded of this when I was...
by Sean T. Byrnes One of the more amusing developments of Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on the...
…when I read this. We do a lot of (a) and (b) here, I think. Which is...
As you all hunker down for some Fourth of July frivolities, please keep your northern brethren in...
From The Splendid Table’s: How to Eat Supper (dish pictured on the cover of the book). I’ll...
Can we all just admit that it’s a silly bit of legal chicanery to say, “We aren’t...
Over at Bleeding Heart Libertarians, Jason Brennan Argues that Academic Constitutional Legal Theory is intellectually corrupt.
In a post, and then in a comment thread about the Electoral College, Ryan Noonan develops the...
In this post, my esteemed colleague Jason Kuznicki says: Rights claims are generalized moral claims about how...
The Atlantic‘s Andrew Cohen pulls out some choice quotes from today’s SCOTUS opinion penned by Chief Justice Roberts:...
…you have to admit these people are fishing morons, or a crowd-sourced art project.
Below is a repost of something I posted on December 16, 2009, several months before PPACA was...
As anyone with access to the internet, cable TV or radio knows, the Supreme Court announced this...
United States v. Alvarez — Ninth Circuit affirmed, the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional. Breakdown is Concurrence plurality...
I’m reading Akhil Reed Amar’s book, America’s Constitution: A Biography (on a blog recommendation from Peter Sagal), and...
Thanks for being patient as I tinker. The Feed for this site should be working again, but...
