Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Despite the back and forth over whether a judge’s perspective and personal experience should or shouldn’t matter, the reality is that in much of the Supreme Court’s work it simply won’t matter: Of their 80 or so cases a year the press focuses on a dozen or so controversial ones. A lot [...]

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Truth be told it is practically today’s talking point already, alas. It sucks being a part-time blogger and working late besides. But for a brief time I was so pleased with myself that I IMed [...]

By Mona
Ambivalent. I am, about the Sonia Sotomayor nomination to SCOTUS. Altho I agree with the reasons Greenwald specifies for praising Obama’s choice of her as far as Greenwald’s reasons go, I have reservations. (John Cole also does a nice job of belittling the stoopid objections to her that many of [...]

By Thoreau
Generation Veal is in full swing this morning. I’m covering an introductory physics lab for another instructor who’s out of town. These are pre-meds in their third quarter of physics. Their instructions were to see how many gamma rays their detector would pick up in 5 minutes without a sample in [...]

By Mona
Brad showcases Col. Ralph Peters’ publication of a deranged essay which includes this gem, my emphasis:

Pretending to be impartial, the self-segregating personalities drawn to media careers overwhelmingly take a side, and that side is rarely ours. Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, [...]

By Thoreau
CNN reports that the wife of the leading Iranian opposition candidate is being compared with Michelle Obama.  Let’s see, Mir Hossein Mousavi is promising change, his wife is popular with the crowds, his middle name is from the same root as Hussein, and I’ll bet you anything that he’ll turn out to be a [...]

By Thoreau
While checking out Venus fly traps at the Huntington Library and Garden today, I came up with a puzzle:  Can a vegan eat a plant that eats meat?

By Thoreau
The LA Times has a hilarious article on 4 Europeans who went to Pakistan, intent on joining Al Qaeda and fighting US forces.  Instead of glorious battle against the evil empire, they are hit up for cash, forced to go through background checks (Al Qaeda is keenly interested in getting the names and addresses [...]

By Thoreau
The alleged terrorist cell busted in New York apparently planted fake explosives with the assistance of an informant. The informant provided the fake explosives.
Here’s the thing: If I were planning to do something that required a piece of technology to work properly, I’d insist on a field test first. Yeah, yeah, [...]

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Gene Healy on Barack Obama and Dick Cheney, secret lovers.