Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

We are probably doing our FFL draft this weekend (early, yes, but that’s what schedules seem to permit). I have the first pick in the draft (10 team league, serpentine draft order). I’m leaning strongly towards taking Manning. ESPN reports that in all of its leagues last year, 42.9% of the winning teams in its […]

I’m rapidly becoming addicted to the Freakonomics blog. The latest brouhaha on child safety seats, airbags vs. seat belts, etc., is quite interesting. Levitt argues that the data fails to support the hypothesis that car seats are safer than seat belts for children over the age of 2 years who are involved in an accident. […]

Dan Polsby, author of the amicus brief in the Rumsfeld case mentioned here recently, and FAIR’s lawyer Josh Rosencrantz, discuss the brief in “The Wisdom of Solomon?”

Sean Sirrine’s always useful and informative Blawg round-up (#16) is now available here. The Alabama castration bill was one that I hadn’t heard about.

Very informative and balanced article by Julie Reynolds in the latest issue of the DC Bar Magazine here. She interviewed me for the article. My only quibble with this excellent piece is that there is a common mistake at the outset, which is that the Bankruptcy power in Article I, sec. 8 of the Constitution […]

Hamilton College is having its first Trustee election in 30 years this year. From what I understand, typically their Alumni Council nominates a slate, and if there is no opposition, there is no election. This year, however, a group of intrepid alumni have used a long-dormant petition process to get their names on the ballot […]

Althouse has this cryptic post, which prompted a Commenter on her blog to utter the phrase in the subject line. Which reminds me of a joke I heard a comedian (do we still use the term “comedienne”?) tell once. She was observing that with the song “You’re So Vain” Carly Simon was really putting Warren […]

Not your typical, everyday charge of “criminal mischief”: PITTSBURGH — Police have flagged a man for an illegal quarterback sneak. Authorities said Brian Jackson, 31, dated two women by pretending to be Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger and Brian St. Pierre. Jackson, arrested Friday, was charged with harassment for allegedly continuing to contact both women […]

Mike McCann at Sports Law Blog has an interesting chart and some reflections on the new NBA minimum draft age, looking specifically at patterns of NBA players getting in trouble with the law (a proxy for personal maturity). Mike has been critical of the NBA’s decision to raise the draft age with the intent of […]

In the spirit of confirmation battles spawning a new lexicon (e.g., “Borking”) the Washington Times reports today on what some Republicans are calling “Estradification”–requiring the Justice Department to turn over internal legal memoranda written by Roberts while he worked in the SG’s office. The refusal by the White House to surrender these sorts of documents […]

I’m excited, but skeptical, of the latest FIFA World Soccer Rankings, which has the U.S. ranked 6th (up 4 spots) ahead of France, England, Germany, Portugal, and Spain, among others.

Law.com recalls John Roberts law school days at Harvard. One of his classmates recalls: Barrack, Rodos & Bacine partner Mark Rosen remembered that John G. Roberts had two goals when the two young men were classmates in their first year at Harvard Law School — becoming a professor at the law school or serving on […]

Cass Sunstein, guest-blogging for Lessig this week, has had a number of posts on Hayek (here and here). Most of the posts have actually been on why certain institutions, such as blogs, open-source software, Wikipedia, etc., are not actually Hayekian information-processing mechanisms. That is correct. There is a fundamental difference between a Hayekian information-processing mechanism, […]

Today’s Washington Times has the most extensive write-up of Roberts’s youth that I have seen (and it isn’t very extensive): Judge Roberts grew up in Long Beach, Ind., near Lake Michigan — a community where Bethlehem Steel managers lived. In high school, he was an excellent student and athlete, named as captain of the football […]

Tyler writes: She has heard the voice of VC contributor Todd Zywicki. Well there goes her chances of confirmation…