The Dead Kennedys were always an amusing and outrageous band. From the pointed humor of their lyrics and their raucous shows to Jello Biafra’s semi-serious run for mayor of San Francisco and the allegedly obscene H.R. Giger poster distributed with the Frankchrist album, the DKs were always worth some attention, even when their music was […]
Archive | August, 2004
Helms-Burton-Kerry:
Apparently Senator Kerry voted for the Helms-Burton Act, before he voted against it. Where have we heard this before? (Don’t worry, in this campaign you’re bound to hear it again.)
Negative campaigning:
On NPR this morning, Jim Nayder, host of the Annoying Music Show, quoted this gem from William H. Harrison’s campaign against Martin Van Buren: Who rules us with an iron rod? Who moves at Satan’s beck and nod? Who heeds not man, Who heeds not God? Van Buren, Van Buren! Thanks to those readers who […]
FASCINATING KOREAN BANKRUPTCY LAW:
For the record Orin, I would prefer the piece on Korean bankruptcy law. Then again, when I was in bankruptcy practice, we used to pester the lending and corporate attorneys to take us to meet their clients for whom they were closing deals and they always blew us off. One finally fessed up that taking […]
Keyes Agonistes
In 2000 Alan Keyes lambasted Hillary Clinton for carpetbagging when she moved to New York to run for the Senate. Suddenly Keyes had a change of heart when given the opportuinity to run for the Senate in Illiois. Yet this has hardly been Keyes’ only flip-flop, reports FoxNews. He once opposed slavgery reparations, now he […]
THE CELL PHONE MENACE:
New paper concludes that drivers impaired by driving while talking on cell phones are more dangerous that drunk drivers. The abstract: We used a high-fidelity driving simulator to compare the performance of cell-phone drivers with drivers who were legally intoxicated from ethanol. When drivers were conversing on either a hand-held or hands-free cell-phone, their braking […]
NEW CORPORATE LAW BLOG:
Its called BizFems and its a collection of female corporate and commercial law scholars. Its just getting started but has some interesting people on it.
Moving Tribute:
Tbogg has a moving post in memory of his father, who passed away on Wednesday. Thanks to TalkLeft for the link.
Clintonism of the Day:
Here’s today’s Bushism of the Day from Slate (note that “they” refers to the voters): “They’ve seen me make decisions, they’ve seen me under trying times, they’ve seen me weep, they’ve seen me laugh, they’ve seen me hug. And they know who I am, and I believe they’re comfortable with the fact that they know […]
More on Theodorakis’s views on Jews:
The Theodorakis remarks that David Bernstein points to below aren’t the first of his remarks about Jews to make the news. Last November, Theodorakis was reported as saying: We are two nations without brothers in the world, us [Greeks] and the Jews, but they have fanaticism and are forceful. . . Today we can say […]
African American Self-Defense in the Jim Crow Era:
I’ve being doing some academic research on African American history from approximately the 1880s to the 1930s, and occasionally see a reference to an individual or community that responded to mob or other illicit violence with armed resistance. However, I’ve been unable to locate any book or article that discusses the subject in anything resembling […]
Mikis Theodorakis:
I was going to blog this interview with Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (most famous for “Zorba the Greek”), but Clayton Cramer beat me to it. A short excerpt: So today’s globalized capitalism is controlled very much by the Jews? “Since we speak frankly, I will tell you something else. The Jewish people control most of […]
Subsidies for Everything:
I think the idea of having affordable “flying cars” is very cool, but can anyone give me a plausible reason why the government is spending taxpayer money on researching this, rather than leaving it to the private sector? And how exactly did domestic transportation issues come to be within NASA’s purview? Update:Readers inform me that […]
Using how-to books for vicarious thrills:
I got many responses to my query; thanks very much to everyone who submitted items. I ultimately ended up choosing the ones for which I could find someone else saying (preferably in a reputable publication) that many readers were indeed likely to use the books to fantasize about doing, rather than to do. Nothing like […]
“Why Revoke Tariq Ramadan’s U.S. Visa?”
Apropos the story I mentioned yesterday, here’s Daniel Pipes’ argument for why revoking Tariq Ramadan’s visa was a good idea. (My post dealt simply with why it’s constitutional.) I don’t know enough about the facts to speak to this myself, but I thought I’d pass the item along; I’ll be happy to link to counterarguments, […]