Author: Burt Likko
America, the Awesome
Burt Likko has one of those sorts of problems that really aren’t such bad problems to have.
Political Discrimination Might Actually Be A Thing
James Damore, the “echo chamber memo” guy, just filed a high profile lawsuit against his former employer, Google. He might have the chance to blaze a new trail in California employment law along the way.
The White House Mess
Michael Wolff’s The Fire and the Fury is the talk of the town and certainly the book of the moment.
Welcome To The Room, A Staggeringly Bad Movie
There are bad movies. There are very bad movies. There are historically bad movies.
And then, there’s The Room.
That Which Kris Kobach Is About To Wreak Upon Our Courts
Peer with Burt Likko into his Constitutional crystal ball, and you shall see a vision of a veritable hurricane of voter registration litigation, of a sort yet unseen in American legal history.
The Day When We Could No Longer Abide King George’s Crimes
Really, what did King George III do that was so bad anyway?
Shouldn’t Need Saying
And another thing: it’s really not such a good thing from a vehicular maintenance perspective.
The Contemporary Monomyth
It is exceedingly difficult to get people to tell each other new and different stories than they do.
Yet it may prove to be existentially important to persuade them to do exactly that.
When they cower before Trump outrage, corporations make us angrier and dumber — WaPo (Alyssa Rosenberg)
No public funds were used in the controversial portrayal of a Donald Trump-like Julius Caesar.
James Comey Testifies: Open Thread
I daresay these are the most explosive congressional hearings since Anita Hill’s testimoy.
