Kieran Healy has an interesting non-snarky post on what the data on May-December marriages tell us, with an interesting comments section beneath it. Kieran doesn’t point out, but I will, that the data confirm support my original observation: that the common wisdom that men are more likely than women to prefer younger mates and to […]
Archive | October, 2004
Kerry and 14th Amendment, section 3:
Is John Kerry disqualified from being President by section 3 of the 14th Amendment? Several readers — starting with Pierce Wetter, with whom I’ve corresponded on the subject, and who has just blogged about it, referring partly to our correspondence — have e-mailed me to ask this question, and I noticed more chatter about it […]
Martha Stewart update:
The New York Post, citing an unnamed inmate at the Alderson, W.Va., minimum-security prison camp for women, reported that the guru of good living spent some time last week picking crab apples from trees on the camp grounds and used them to cook up sweet jelly. “The normal person would get punished for that, but […]
Republicans and Jews, Part II:
I have received many e-mails purporting to explain why Jews tend to despise Republicans. Most of these emails (and this blog post) instead give plausible reasons why Jews may prefer to vote for Democrats instead of Republicans. What I was referring to, however, is the kind of visceral discussed [update: sic–disgust; that’s what I get […]
Lindgren on Superstitions About Conservatives:
My colleague Stephen Bainbridge liveblogged our own Jim Lindgren’s talk on “Chasing Cherished Superstitions About Conservatives.” Go to Bainbridge’s post for more.
More on Slate, movie stars, and left-wing dictators:
Friday, I criticized this statement in a Slate review of Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police: Leftist actors learned from Vietnam not to cozy up to dictators: Jane Fonda, one of the best actresses of her generation, hasn’t worked in more than a decade. I asked the following question: Jane Fonda worked […]
Al Qaeda’s Next Move:
Let’s assume that Al Qaeda is planning attacks in the United States in the next few weeks to coincide with the U.S. election and the holy month of Ramadan. We all hope that is not true, of course, but let’s assume, somewhat morbidly, that it is. What kind of attacks might be planned? I don’t […]
Adviser vs. advisor:
Both are perfectly valid, but I wanted to use the more common one, since I have no personal preference. A google smackdown helps out: Advisor wins, by about a factor of four. I love modern linguistic research tools . . . .
AntitrustProf Blog:
Please join me in welcoming AntitrustProf Blog, hosted by lawprof Shubha Ghosh. (Hat tip: Larry Solum) Some day, there will be groups of law professor blogs covering every specialty area. If you want to see the latest ideas coming from the legal academy, you will start by reading blogs, not law reviews. For now, however, […]
Staffing the Justice Department:
“The objective in staffing is never to assemble the best possible team. It is to assemble the best possible team that supports the president.” — an unnamed former Bush Administration official, explaining why the White House vetoed some of Deputy Attorney General James Comey’s staff picks and why Comey himself “has erred too much on […]
Virtual Crime, Virtual Deterrence:
A new draft of mine was posted on SSRN today; it is a short symposium essay called Virtual Crime, Virtual Deterrence: A Skeptical View of Self-Help, Architecture, and Civil Liability. (To download it, click on the link and scroll down to the “download” button.) The essay is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the Journal […]
The Guardian’s Letters to Clark County, Ohio.–
When the Guardian Newspaper in the UK lamented that citizens around the world couldn’t vote in the US election, Oz blogger Tim Blair suggested that they write letters to voters in swing states. Without giving Tim Blair credit for the idea, the Guardian has been encouraging just such a letter-writing campaign, distributing the addresses of […]
Why do we have a vaccine shortage?–
Kevin Drum has a thoughtful post on the vaccine shortage, plausibly speculating that the restrictive FDA process is the likeliest culprit (tip Reynolds). Drum reviews seven possible explanations, noting: [W]ith two exceptions, all of these explanations apply to every country in the world — but the United States is the only one with a problem. […]
Crack for Votes:
The problem with giving people crack cocaine in exchange for registering voters is that you just can’t trust crackheads to follow the rules. Details here.
WINE WARS AVAILABLE ON-LINE:
My series of Wine War posts is now available on line to be downloaded. You can find it here.