The Supreme Court is in conference today, considering certiorari petitions for ten cases addressing the issue of...
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore.
House Likko's Words:
Scite Verum.
Colite Iusticia.
Vivere Con Gaudium.
The culture wars over political correctness in academia never really went away, I suppose, although they only...
I am grateful for my education and my admission into a profession which — though it frustrates...
McKay Coppins made memeorandum headlines this morning with a Buzzfeed article entitled “How The Conservative Media Lost The...
I just got a new laptop, which came with Windows 8 and Explorer 10. I am frustrated....
Briefly noted — the New York Times today went live with a five-essay “Room for Debate” regarding the...
I have grown so frustrated with Twitter that I’m about to uninstall it from every device I...
Enough politics. Focus on what’s important, people! This month’s selection for our Bourbon club is Booker’s, a...
I saw at lunch that Bob Schieffer has made public the questions he intends to ask in...
Most of the people I talk to about politics who like the idea of repealing the Electoral...
The Federal Defense of Marriage Act has already been held unconstitutional by a Federal Circuit Court of...
Legends are more interesting and more attractive than the reality underneath them. And sometimes, things are said that inadvertently...
Why I bothered to watch I don’t know. I filled out my absentee ballot and mailed it...
And we have a new leader! In what promises to be one of the last Monday night...
Not to get all pro-Western in my biases or anything. And not to indicate ignorance of a half-millenium...
This is the new James Bond song, “Skyfall,” by Adele, just released to the public today at...
Viewership statistics for the nation as a whole on the Presidential debates are not going to be that hard...
The League will have another video discussion tonight, almost immediately following the Presidential debate. For now, here’s...
The regular refs are back. They’re making bad calls just like the scabs did, but at least...
Is it just me, or is this not the dreariest Presidential election anyone can recall? An incumbent...
