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No more poems by John Hollander 19 Aug 2013 | 10:48 am
Hollander passed away yesterday after a rich and amazingly productive life. See here for a comment about him and the strange ways of the web.
Having a sad about Orin Kerr 16 Jul 2013 | 09:33 am
This comment, and the replies to it, crystalized for me why I had lost my respect for Orin Kerr, the best blogger at Volokh.com. But really that's not saying much - see e.g. here. Still, consider thi...
Comment on "you can't eat justice" 22 Apr 2013 | 10:44 am
here: The law in its majesty forbids the rich and poor alike from stealing bread. Anyway, it doesn't much matter to the poor that they can't eat justice, because it's not on the menu where they eat, o...
Killing a gnat with a neutron bomb 11 Apr 2013 | 09:29 am
Amazingly intense blog comment: Sarcastr0 Winston Blake • 4 hours ago Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its des...
Schadenfreude showing 5 Mar 2013 | 12:21 pm
The news that Tacitus aka Josh Trevino had an unfortunate $400k relationship with the government of Malaysia briefly made me want to go to the Obsidian Wings blog and gloat, but happily I was quickly ...
dxmachina on the Republicans 16 Jan 2013 | 11:09 am
dxmachina commenting on a Kevin Drum post: Go back to 19th c. France, and you see get the same thing. A royalist party in a parliament has no real interest in participation in parliamentary government...
Short answer to stupid question 9 Jan 2012 | 09:32 am
Glenn Greenwald writes, (2) As for Drum’s insistence that it’s inherently wrong to ally with Paul for any reason, does that apply to Barney Frank, Alan Grayson, and Dennis Kucinich, all of whom have d...
randomly_1 13 Nov 2011 | 12:05 pm
Links relevant to the previous post: the state defends a rapist, and an essay on another crime.
randomly 13 Nov 2011 | 09:56 am
Interestingly crappy thread moderation by John Scalzi here. People who disagree with the dominant view in discussions should be afforded extra protection, not less. Worse, in this case I judge that th...
Rilkekind's dancer 13 Jul 2011 | 06:09 pm
A dancer in time