The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss. (Hat tip: Jeremy Blachman at Crescat Sententia.) Other ideas for Seuss-inspired works: a poem about the general election called “One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State.” (“Why are they keen and Green and mean? I do not know. Ask Howard Dean.”) UPDATE: Reader Jim Thomason points out that […]
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Eric Muller blogging David Bernstein’s talk on David’s “You Can’t Say That!” book. I think he’s doing it live, and will be posting more as the talk goes on.
Prof. Michael Madison’s review of Academic Legal Writing: It’s out now in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and available here. It’s a law review essay that goes quite a bit beyond just describing, evaluating, and critiquing the book; it also compares it to Elizabeth Fajans’ & Mary Falk’s Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar […]
New York mayor being prosecuted for conducting gay marriages:
According to FoxNews, The village’s mayor was charged Tuesday with 19 criminal counts for performing marriage ceremonies for gay couples. Jason West was charged with solemnizing marriages for couples who had no licenses, a misdemeanor under the domestic relations law, according to Ulster County District Attorney Donald Williams. Although West could face a maximum penalty […]
Norwegians say “Kerry panders to the Jews”:
So reports Secular Blasphemy, citing this article in what he describes as Norway’s largest newspaper. I don’t know Norwegian, but I’m pretty sure that “joder” (with a slash through the “o”) doesn’t just mean “Israelis.” Mr. Blasphemy has many more details on this.
Wanted: Free help from nuclear weapons experts.
I’ll even take help from nucular weapons experts. I’m writing a law review article that discusses, among other things, the 1979 Progressive case, in which the government temporarily prohibited a magazine from publishing an article about nuclear bomb design. The government eventually withdrew its objections after another newspaper published a different article about nuclear bomb […]
Advice on writing, from another law professor:
Prof. Christine Hurt, of Marquette University Law School, writes: In preparation for sending out my own article on Friday, I was skimming through your book on writing law review articles. Two points that you make in your book instantly brought some examples to mind. When advising readers on choosing titles carefully, you caution against titles […]
The worm turns:
The new worm going around poses as authentic e-mail much more persuasively than most of its predecessors. (And it seems to be doing clever things like harvesting all the e-mail addresses off a single webpage and sending spoofed e-mails posing as one person on the page to all the others. I’m getting it over and […]
Apparently grave violation of academic freedom:
I haven’t looked at this closely, but based on Eric Rasmusen’s and Erin O’Connor’s posts, it seems like there’s a very serious problem here. Here’s O’Connor’s post: Penn State president Graham Spanier has spoken: Nona Gerard, the Penn State Altoona theater professor whose outspokenness alienated her colleagues, has been fired. Spanier notified Gerard of the […]
Strauss again:
A few people have taken my post yesterday on the bioethics commission to be fanning the flames of Straussophobia. Such was certainly not my intent. I’m not a student of Strauss directly or indirectly, but I have both very fine colleagues and very fine students who are, and I have certainly learned important intellectual lessons […]
Refusals to recognize same-sex marriage and refusals to recognize interracial marriage:
Many people argue that state no-gay-marriage rules are just as illegitimate and unconstitutional as state no-interracial-marriage rules. Though I tentatively support allowing gay marriage, I don’t buy this argument (which is why my support for allowing gay marriage is only tentative, and which is why I oppose gay marriage being implemented by courts, as opposed […]
The real importance of The Passion of Christ:
I wish to sidestep all of the debates so far. Rather I am struck by the growing likelihood that future generations will achieve their major knowledge of religious figures through movies, television, and DVDs. To be sure, there are already many Christian movies. But I don’t think they are culturally central in shaping how the […]
More on the Saudis:
Re Eugene’s recent post on a Saudi gay marriage, at least the religious police there are called the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which is a more holistic goal than just promoting virtue or preventing vice. They may want to consider, though, that any two goals may not always be […]
Telling the Story of War:
Like Randy, I’ve recently been reading a number of books involving war, although I’ve been reading so-called war novels: “Catch-22,” “A Separate Peace,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Cold Mountain,” and “Slaughterhouse Five.” It may be a senseless question to ask if a novel focuses more on the horrors of war or on the horrors […]
Kopel on “Cop Killer” Ammo:
The debate over gun control is, it seems, invariably haunted by labels, epithets, slogans and misinformation designed solely to generate sympathetic political reactions to proposed restrictions on gun rights, despite the facts. This is one reason why it is so hard to debate so-called “reasonable regulations”–a type of law that would in principle be consistent […]