This is sort of what I meant. They say these things but they don't inact any policies that mesh with their message. If anything the Palinista's are very good at creating policies that are a further race to the bottom for their target audience.
Though I think that populist Democratic politicians and populist Republican politicians are speaking to two very different audiences. The GOP populists are speaking to those who have Jeffersonian agrarian fantasies of being a self-sufficient yeoman of sorts. Democratic populist politicians are speaking to an audience that is not fond or desiring of yeoman fantasies and might not even have any desire to be a small business person. The target Democratic audience wants security and welfare, not the chance to be entruepenuers. Basically it is like watching people from different worlds try to compete.
I can see how that can work for immigration. It is somewhat presumptive that everyone is going to know someone who knows a lawyer.
Being born and raised in the upper-middle and professional classes, I can probably ask around for a whole range of services: law, medicine, a good cleaning person, a gardener, a carpenter, interior designer, tailor, etc. If someone grew up outside of those communities, I can see how it could be very hard to find a lawyer. We live in an era of mass-educational segregation and this does not benefit the poor or working classes.
Doesn't Sarah Palin represent that pro-Capitalist, anti-Elitist kind of right-wing populism?
The GOP has been drumming this beat for years. Possibly my entire life (and I am older than you), I don't see them have any policies that are actually pro-Capitalist while being anti-Elitist at the same time. I know the GOP likes to fancy themselves as the party of yeoman and small business but most of their policies seem to favor huge corporations and the powers that be.
False Conciousness comes to mind when viewing the Palin wing of the Republican Party. Their verbal claims do not match their policies or actions.
Then again, this is the kind of populism that would call an actress making 30,000 a year an elitist because she lives in New York and maybe went to Smith.
It doesn't change the reasoning for the original AVA ethics rules. One of the lawyer's who devised them at the begging of the 20th century was explicit in saying that they were designed to make it hard for "Russian Jew Boys" (and other minorities) to earn a living as lawyers.
This was in my ethics textbook. I can't find the citation on Google.
Now these are interesting cases. Do you have a free speech right to advertise a quasi-legal or illegal industry?
IIRC the Supreme Court refused to hear a case concerning brothel/escort advertisements in Clark County (home of Las Vegas). Prostitution is legal everywhere in Nevada but Clark County. The question was whether escorts and brothels could advertise in Clark County.
As I mentioned below, the bans on attorney advertising are often great for corporations but bad for individual clients.
How is someone supposed to find a plaintiff's firm to handle their employment discrimination or product liability case? Or a criminal defense lawyer to handle their burglary charge? Or an immigration lawyer to help prevent their deportation?
Yes some lawyers can be very imaginative with their advertisements but I want to hear a better way for individual and small-business clients to find a lawyer.
There was some discriminatory reasoning behind the ban's on attorney advertising.
Notice that most lawyers who advertise are in sections of law that are considered less than elite and serve a less than elite clientele: Personal Injury, Immigration, Divorce, Criminal Defense, etc. This is not white shoe law.
At one point, most of the lawyers who practiced these forms of law were non-WASPs who could not get into the Corporate firms. The bans against advertising were meant to keep the profession august and responsible by denying new hands a chance to compete.
I do not support prohibitions against lawyer and doctor advertising because it tends to be very pro-Corporate defense and very bad for individual clients who need to sue corporations.
Disclaimer: I'm a plaintiff's lawyer and my heart is with the plaintiff.
Where do the chuggers come in on this scale? Somewhere between the last two options? One of the more annoying things about SF is that the weather is temperte enough for the chuggers to be out most of the year.
Also Movember (as much as I hate the portmandeau) is probably a more frequent variant than climb Everest.
I am always surprised about how many people parent's did not drink in front of them while they were growing up.
My parents were always a glass or two of wine with supper types. This made me think of alcohol as something to drink with meals. Not a binge and party drink. I also got to have a little bit with shabbat. All in all, this turned me into a rather moderate drinker.
Our lack of public transportation is also a problem. Unless you live in a handful of cities, you need to take your car to go out.
"So then, what’s the breaking point for Republicans? At what point do they realize that they’re losing to a guy who is better than their candidates? At what point do they acknowledge that maybe it’s Obama and not a complex series of churning conspiracies? Or does it simply never happen?"
I think it is going to get worse before it gets better. There is also the possibility of the Republican Party going the way of the dodo and being replaced by a center-right party and a far right party.
About a quarter of the electorate will always be far-right extremists of the current mode. Right now they can assert a lot of influence in the GOP. John Judis notes that the Club for Growth is already trying to stack the deck against reasonable conservatives for questioning Orthodoxies. In a system with multiple parties, this 25 percent would only control a handful of seats and that is it.
I read this last year as well. Frum is an interesting guy. He is certainly conservative in many ways to the core. I doubt we would believe in the same policies to solve problems but he certainly understands what is going on the right and that it is not good.
Or as TNC says: Liberals have a media, conservatives have a press office (paraphrase).
Kevin Drum considers this part of the Fox News Effect. NewsCorp and other places have created a perfect sealed chamber that allows them to believe this stuff. Our own Tod Kelly noted how the 24/7 drumbeat of hysteria has created a frenzy for many non-scandals.
And as I have mentioned before, Richard Hofstatder's The Paranoid Style in American Politics is probably the smartest and most insightful essay ever written about the American political system. Everything Hofstatder wrote then can apply to the right today. There has always been a sizeable minority of the American right that is outright nuts. They see themselves as the only defenders of freedom and values. Keep in mind that I have no idea what they mean by freedom but it is certainly not anything that comes to my mind when thinking about the word.
On “Conservatives’ Jim DeMint Problem”
Well said.
I don't have anything to add except a general observation that Jim DeMint always reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn.
On “Two Lesser Known Freedom of Speech Cases”
This is sort of what I meant. They say these things but they don't inact any policies that mesh with their message. If anything the Palinista's are very good at creating policies that are a further race to the bottom for their target audience.
Though I think that populist Democratic politicians and populist Republican politicians are speaking to two very different audiences. The GOP populists are speaking to those who have Jeffersonian agrarian fantasies of being a self-sufficient yeoman of sorts. Democratic populist politicians are speaking to an audience that is not fond or desiring of yeoman fantasies and might not even have any desire to be a small business person. The target Democratic audience wants security and welfare, not the chance to be entruepenuers. Basically it is like watching people from different worlds try to compete.
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That is largely what I meant. I see the advertisements as setting up the relationship more than anything else.
Though I don't see much doctor advertising beyond cosmetic dentistry and Dr. Zizmor in New York.
On “Taxpayer-Directed Welfare”
Can I prevent my money from going towards Lockhead Martin and the Military Industrial Complex?
On “Two Lesser Known Freedom of Speech Cases”
Also, I have friends who are hanging up their own shingle because of the tough legal market.
How should they find clients as new and independent lawyers?
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Yes but that has to deal with disclosure of information. I don't see why it would prevent a doctor from putting up an ad on a subway for new patients.
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I can see how that can work for immigration. It is somewhat presumptive that everyone is going to know someone who knows a lawyer.
Being born and raised in the upper-middle and professional classes, I can probably ask around for a whole range of services: law, medicine, a good cleaning person, a gardener, a carpenter, interior designer, tailor, etc. If someone grew up outside of those communities, I can see how it could be very hard to find a lawyer. We live in an era of mass-educational segregation and this does not benefit the poor or working classes.
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Doesn't Sarah Palin represent that pro-Capitalist, anti-Elitist kind of right-wing populism?
The GOP has been drumming this beat for years. Possibly my entire life (and I am older than you), I don't see them have any policies that are actually pro-Capitalist while being anti-Elitist at the same time. I know the GOP likes to fancy themselves as the party of yeoman and small business but most of their policies seem to favor huge corporations and the powers that be.
False Conciousness comes to mind when viewing the Palin wing of the Republican Party. Their verbal claims do not match their policies or actions.
Then again, this is the kind of populism that would call an actress making 30,000 a year an elitist because she lives in New York and maybe went to Smith.
"
It doesn't change the reasoning for the original AVA ethics rules. One of the lawyer's who devised them at the begging of the 20th century was explicit in saying that they were designed to make it hard for "Russian Jew Boys" (and other minorities) to earn a living as lawyers.
This was in my ethics textbook. I can't find the citation on Google.
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St. Mary's!
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Now these are interesting cases. Do you have a free speech right to advertise a quasi-legal or illegal industry?
IIRC the Supreme Court refused to hear a case concerning brothel/escort advertisements in Clark County (home of Las Vegas). Prostitution is legal everywhere in Nevada but Clark County. The question was whether escorts and brothels could advertise in Clark County.
"
As I mentioned below, the bans on attorney advertising are often great for corporations but bad for individual clients.
How is someone supposed to find a plaintiff's firm to handle their employment discrimination or product liability case? Or a criminal defense lawyer to handle their burglary charge? Or an immigration lawyer to help prevent their deportation?
Yes some lawyers can be very imaginative with their advertisements but I want to hear a better way for individual and small-business clients to find a lawyer.
"
There was some discriminatory reasoning behind the ban's on attorney advertising.
Notice that most lawyers who advertise are in sections of law that are considered less than elite and serve a less than elite clientele: Personal Injury, Immigration, Divorce, Criminal Defense, etc. This is not white shoe law.
At one point, most of the lawyers who practiced these forms of law were non-WASPs who could not get into the Corporate firms. The bans against advertising were meant to keep the profession august and responsible by denying new hands a chance to compete.
I do not support prohibitions against lawyer and doctor advertising because it tends to be very pro-Corporate defense and very bad for individual clients who need to sue corporations.
Disclaimer: I'm a plaintiff's lawyer and my heart is with the plaintiff.
On “Raising Money”
Where do the chuggers come in on this scale? Somewhere between the last two options? One of the more annoying things about SF is that the weather is temperte enough for the chuggers to be out most of the year.
Also Movember (as much as I hate the portmandeau) is probably a more frequent variant than climb Everest.
On “Tragedy. Again.”
I am always surprised about how many people parent's did not drink in front of them while they were growing up.
My parents were always a glass or two of wine with supper types. This made me think of alcohol as something to drink with meals. Not a binge and party drink. I also got to have a little bit with shabbat. All in all, this turned me into a rather moderate drinker.
Our lack of public transportation is also a problem. Unless you live in a handful of cities, you need to take your car to go out.
On “How ACORN Stole the 2012 Election”
I think they knew it would be inconvenient and did not care. They wanted Marin to be a bit inaccessible.
I like it though. If I stay in the Bay Area and do the whole move to the suburbs thing, I think Mill Valley is a top choice.
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Why did Herb Caen have to die on us?
The Chronicle is good for local entertainment and restaurant info and that is about it.
Though perhaps it is unfair to compare everything to the Times.
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"So then, what’s the breaking point for Republicans? At what point do they realize that they’re losing to a guy who is better than their candidates? At what point do they acknowledge that maybe it’s Obama and not a complex series of churning conspiracies? Or does it simply never happen?"
I think it is going to get worse before it gets better. There is also the possibility of the Republican Party going the way of the dodo and being replaced by a center-right party and a far right party.
About a quarter of the electorate will always be far-right extremists of the current mode. Right now they can assert a lot of influence in the GOP. John Judis notes that the Club for Growth is already trying to stack the deck against reasonable conservatives for questioning Orthodoxies. In a system with multiple parties, this 25 percent would only control a handful of seats and that is it.
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Is that really a nickname for the LA Times?
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I read this last year as well. Frum is an interesting guy. He is certainly conservative in many ways to the core. I doubt we would believe in the same policies to solve problems but he certainly understands what is going on the right and that it is not good.
Or as TNC says: Liberals have a media, conservatives have a press office (paraphrase).
"
Kevin Drum considers this part of the Fox News Effect. NewsCorp and other places have created a perfect sealed chamber that allows them to believe this stuff. Our own Tod Kelly noted how the 24/7 drumbeat of hysteria has created a frenzy for many non-scandals.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/12/fox-news-effect-republicans-still-think-acorn-alive-and-stealing-elections
And as I have mentioned before, Richard Hofstatder's The Paranoid Style in American Politics is probably the smartest and most insightful essay ever written about the American political system. Everything Hofstatder wrote then can apply to the right today. There has always been a sizeable minority of the American right that is outright nuts. They see themselves as the only defenders of freedom and values. Keep in mind that I have no idea what they mean by freedom but it is certainly not anything that comes to my mind when thinking about the word.
On “Parting Ways”
"The one who would write with purposeful obtuseness"
Once again making me wonder whether TVD was the right-wing variant of Derrida.
On “Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012”
Kathy's Waltz will always have a special place in my heart. Largely because one of my favorite people is named Kathy.
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Damn.
I am more of a Blue Rondo a La Turk guy.
On “On Ross Douthat, More Children, and Less Decadence”
Would it be ironic to call them Jacobins?
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