Author Archive | David Bernstein

My dad gave me a Kodak LS 443 digital camera that he never used. I took about 150 pictures with it, and then it completely froze after receiving an “E45” error message. Checking the Internet, I discovered that this is a very common hardware error with this camera model, and was warned that (a) Kodak […]

I’ve heard first-hand stories of people scared off from anti-depressants by exaggerated fears about their alleged dangers (promoted by some serious scientists, but more by Scientologists and others with ideological, not scientific, objections), and other first-hand stories from those whose lives were miraculously turned around by them. So, I’m glad to see that there is […]

I’ve been promising for ages to blog about why American Jews tend to be so liberal, but I’ve consistently put it off because it’s a daunting topic. So instead of one big post, or even a series of concurrent posts, I’ve decided to post occasionally on different aspects of the subject, and will link them […]

During my recent visit, I was pleased to see that Ethiopian Jews seem substantially more integrated into Israeli society than even a few years ago, a product, I suspect, of the fact that the first generation to grow up in Israel is coming of age. I saw Ethiopian shopowners, fashionable teenagers, and quite a few […]

The VC site was down for a while, and meanwhile seems to have “lost” my Tuesday post predicting Israel will soon attack Iran. Here is most of the post, rescued from another blog that excerpted it: This is hardly an original insight, but I predict that Israel will strike Iran within the next few months, […]

Paul Caron (TaxProf) reports: July 2005 California Bar Exam Law School Results (First Time Takers) v. US News & SSRN CA Bar Rank School US News Overall CA Rank US News Peer CA Rank SSRN CA Rank 1 (88.7%) UCLA 3 3 2 2 (88.0%) Stanford 1 1 1 3 (87.0%) Boalt 2 2 4 […]

of the eavesdropping matter in today’s Washington Post.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports: Late last week, a Santa Fe District Court judge signed a temporary restraining order against talk-show host David Letterman alleging [sic] he has tormented a city resident for more than 10 years by using code words on his television program. . . . In the application for the restraining […]

By coincidence, the days in which the Yale Law Journal / Kiwi Camara controversy unfolded also brought us this story (thanks to How Appealing for the pointer): Four white men fired by the Philadelphia School District have won a racial-discrimination lawsuit, and a federal jury awarded them nearly $3 million in damages. After Friday’s verdict, […]

1. The Yale Law Journal is embroiled in a controversy. The Journal accepted a paper for a symposium; but now it turns out that four years ago, a coauthor of the paper made what certainly seems like a racist statement. (For whatever it’s worth, the paper has nothing to do with race.) Should the Journal […]

OK, now here’s the other (equally accurate) version of the story. 2. The Yale Law Journal is embroiled in a controversy. The Journal accepted a paper for a symposium that was cowritten by Kiwi Camara. It turns out that four years, when Camara was a 17-year-old first-year Harvard Law School student, he posted something really […]

With Christmas and New Year’s approaching, I thought I’d mention, one last time this year, that I still have copies of Academic Legal Writing that I’ll be glad to sign and send to your law student family members / friends / distant acquaintances / objects of lust (I’m told members of the opposite sex find […]

A Nov. 27 L.A. Times Travel section article bears the headline “Chile; Adventure, Due South.”

The Daily News (Longview, Wash.) reports: Hundreds of racist fliers have been left in the streets of this town north of Vancouver, Wash., apparently the result of a flap over the firing of a police officer. . . . The cards showed a racial caricature [apparently depicting a chimpanzee wearing a police officer’s hat -EV] […]

Paul Caron (TaxProf) provides a long list of options (certainly not limited to tax). UPDATE: Turns out that Harvard has a new fellowship — and a very attractive (though I’m sure very competitive) one at that. It’s in the Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics program; they’re planning to have 8 fellowships, which will be […]