Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I’m probably just dwelling on the trivialities of my comfortable suburban professional existence, but my basic grievance against big companies is that when they screw up they take 6-8 weeks to fix it, usually after multiple phone calls and whatnot, but if I screw up a penalty is immediately levied.  This happens on every [...]

By Thoreau
Prof. Yoo, circa 2001-2008 (paraphrased):
The power of the federal government should be without limits.  If the Decider wants to crush a kid’s balls, go for it!
Prof. Yoo, 2010:
The 17th Amendment weakened the states’ ability to resist the expansion of federal powers. The problem is that there is no point to trying to [...]

By Thoreau
Russia gives medals to the spies deported from the US over the summer. As far as we can tell, these spies accomplished very little aside from draining large expense accounts and attracting FBI attention.  And for that, they get top honors.
Did somebody put the Bush administration in charge of Russian state honors?