Archive | September, 2004

A couple of days ago I posted something responding to a Les Kinsolving column that criticized Cheney’s support for his lesbian daughter. My post, which was just a titch sarcastic, explained that though Mr. Kinsolving was suggesting that this sort of thing could lead to sadomasochists having the right to get married, too, it turns […]

Slate‘s Explainer has a pretty good explanation of what assault weapons are and they aren’t (for instance, it turns out that they aren’t fully automatic — have I ever mentioned that?). One flaw, though, comes in the perennial attempt to explain how “assault weapons” are different from the tens of millions of other semiautomatic guns […]

I’m pleased to report that this article will be published in the Stanford Law Review, volume 57, issue 4, next February.

Reader John Griffin asks: I though the Internal Revenue Code prohibited political endorsements by religious institutions and religious organizations. Yet, here is a link to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about competing endorsements from two religious organizations concerning the US Senate race in Pennsylvania. Curious that they chose opposite candidates, but problematic, are they […]

I received a flood of mail about my earlier post on the blogosphere’s coverage of the CBS memos. Almost all of it said the same thing: the blogosphere’s coverage of the CBS memos is extremely important. The CBS memos raise the question of whether we can ever trust the mainstream press; they raise fundamental questions […]

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I just learned that Randy Kozel, who was a student in my Thorny Problems of Free Speech Law seminar last Fall at Harvard, has accepted an offer to publish his seminar paper (on government employee speech) in the Northwestern Law Review. He had circulated it a few weeks ago, three months after he graduated, and […]

I am sorry to report that Aaron Director recently passed away, after having achieved the distinction of being a centenarian. (He was born in the Ukraine in 1901.) Director was one of the most important economists of the twentieth century. He founded the Journal of Law and Economics, perhaps the most influential economics journal of […]

The right half of the blogosphere is focused right now on the apparently forged CBS memos about W.’s military service; Instapundit is covering it from every angle. I can see why it’s an appealing story: if you have a choice between blogging on Iraq and poking fun at Dan Rather, the latter is much more […]

Farewell, hopefully temporarily, to my co-blogger Jacob Levy. I will miss his posts, but can understand his motivations expressed here. I too have not been blogging much lately both because of other demands on my time and a lack of topics I cared to blog about. Perhaps my posts today evidence that I am getting […]

Jim writes: The Selectric computer museum shows in pictures part of what I said in words yesterday.  People forget what even proportional spacing looked like ca. 1972. This Selectric typewriter museum has put up examples of both IBM Selectric and IBM Executive typing, the latter with proportional spacing.  Retyping one line from the forged memos, […]

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A few weeks ago I posted a link to a new article of mine available on SSRN, The Fourth Amendment and New Technologies: Constitutional Myths and the Case for Caution, forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. My very brief reply article is now available on SSRN, as well: Techology, Privacy, and the Courts: A Reply […]

Rathergate has spawned a new genre of fake Bush memos. Though this form of humor will undoubtedly get very old very rapidly, I thought I would post a few here and add other links as people send them to me–provided they make me at least smile. Memo on Bush Being A-Wall Bush Bribed Officials With […]