Archive | September, 2007

The legal news can now continue. I hope you had a great week off, Howard.

As bad as things are with eminent domain in this country, it’s much worse in China, as shown in this Boston Globe/LA Times article on the government’s forcible displacement of people to build subway lines in Shanghai: In China, labor is cheap, the land belongs to the government . . . and political pressure moves […]

Here’s an odd one. A new book about the Bush Presidency makes the following claim:   John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice of the United States, suggested Harriet Miers to President Bush as a possible Supreme Court justice, according to a new book on the Bush presidency.  Miers, the White House counsel and a Bush […]

We’ve just been through the most analyzed five minutes anybody ever spent in a bathroom. But there’s still one little-noticed part of it that caught my attention. At one point during the taped exchange between Sen. Larry Craig and Sgt. Dave Karsnia of the Minneapolis airport police, Karsnia tries to shame Craig into admitting that […]

Steven Lubet and Andrew Koppelman make the case for replacing Alberto Gonzales with Northwestern law professor Stephen Calabresi. Calabresi’s conservative credentials are impeccable. A co-founder of the Federalist Society, he is the chairman of the organization’s board of directors. He served in both the Reagan and first Bush administrations before joining the Northwestern faculty in […]

The other Opus comic that many newspapers refused to print is here. I don’t find it any more inflammatory or risque than the last one.

Today’s NYT Magazine profiles noted record producer Rick Rubin who Sony has put in charge of Columbia Records in an effort to reinvigorate their music business. Though for much of his career Rubin produced hard core metal and some rap albums, he has also achieved notice for his work with Tom Petty and the Dixie […]

According to this story in the New York Times, about a government campaign to replace 1950s American refrigerators, it’s because of the “island’s economic isolation, compounded by a United States embargo in place since the early 1960s.” Oh, and “unlike education and health care in Cuba, refrigerators are not free.” And why would people replace […]

I doubt that Karl Rove’s defense of Bush’s record will persuade many people who aren’t already fans of the President – though Rove is right that posterity may view Bush differently than we do today. Because it is mostly ineffective, I’m not going to comment on Rove’s essay in detail. But I will say that […]

Thanks to all who responded to my bleg on digital photo resizing. Pursuing one of the suggestions offered by commenters, I have downloaded a digital photo resizing program. Unfortunately, the resizing options are listed in terms of pixels rather than inches (i.e. -640×480 pixels instead of 4×6 inches). My question for you experts out there […]

case for the Presidency of George W. Bush before Rove mentions the word “Iraq”: 80. Number of times the word “Iraq” appears in the 2,000 word essay: 2.

Larry Craig is resigning, effective one month from now. It’s interesting to consider what role the Internet had in speeding this along. The story broke on Monday. Thanks to the Internet, anyone interested in this story could see the original court documents, read the police report, listen to the post-arrest interview, and watch and read […]

Larry Ribstein and Owen Business School Professor Luke Froeb analyze the latest events at Dartmouth as a case study of modern university governance. Larry links to an editorial and an interview with T.J. Rodgers published in the Wall Street Journal today. The editorial is subscriber-only but the interview is available for free on Opinion Journal […]

The Department of Health and Human Services commissioned an advertising campaign to increase public awareness of the benefits of breast feeding. Breast feeding rates appear to be on the rise, but the United States still lags behind other developed nations. The campaign was to feature striking images that would highlight the potential health problems of […]

In yesterday’s W$J, psychologist Stanton Peele makes the case for allowing minors to drink alcohol with their parents. According to Peele, allowing children to drink alcohol in the home with their families reduces the likelihood of binge drinking and related problems. On the other hand, allowing minors to attend unchaperoned parties may be setting them […]