What to teach law students
UC Berkeley Law School dean Erwin Cemerinsky and UTA Law & Government professor Jeffrey Abramson try to keep a stiff upper lip when teaching in the shadow of the most partisan Supreme Court in a...
View ArticleProperty crime stories that have deeper meanings than I first thought
On this day in 1950, eleven thieves stole $2.7m ($29.8m today) from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston. They would have avoided prosecution had they just followed the plan, but the Liddy Rule got...
View ArticleIs the Covid test plan a stealth argument for single-payer? One can dream
New Republic Natalie Shure points out the absolute, crashing idiocy of getting private health insurance companies involved in procuring free Covid testing, because their whole reason for being is to...
View ArticleThey put to sea one year ago today
Nathan Evans recorded his original 59-second TikTok on 27 December 2020. By January 18th...this had happened:As I understand it, Evans has launched a recording career now. I hope a couple of other...
View ArticleFast and furious?
Josh Marshall lays out the evidence that the Omicron Covid variant hit hard and fast, but as in South Africa, appears to have a short life-span:New York City was one of the first parts of the United...
View ArticleLunchtime roundup, falling temperatures edition
We have one of those lovely January days when a tongue of cold air pushes south from Canada and gives us the warmest temperature of the day at midnight. Yesterday the Inner Drive Techology World...
View ArticleFinance stabs another media outlet
Private equity only knows and only cares about money. Starting from that uncontroversial statement, it takes even less imagination and storytelling skills than private-equity-driven G/O Media possesses...
View ArticleCivis romanus sum
A grand jury convened by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York has indicted four Belarusian security officials for air piracy:In response to a purported bomb threat, Aleksandr G....
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Happy 2nd Covidversary! And 5G...
Yes, today is the second anniversary of the first confirmed Covid-19 case popping up in Washington State. But that's not what this post is about.No, instead, I want to highlight two articles about why...
View ArticleThe line Boris Johnson crossed
Boris Johnson attending a holiday party the night before Prince Philip's funeral outraged the UK because no one hates anything more than moral hypocrisy:Moral hypocrisy — behaving badly while...
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Thanks again, Bruce!
Former Illinois governor Bruce Rauner (R, of course) famously stopped almost all discretionary spending in the state during his term in office by continually vetoing state budgets passed by the...
View ArticleMonday, Monday
The snow has finally stopped for, we think, a couple of days, and the city has cleared most of the streets already. (Thank you, Mike Bilandic.) What else happened today?The James Webb Space Telescope...
View ArticleNotPetya was NotRussia, says court
Via Bruce Schneier, the New Jersey Superior Court has found that the NotPetya attack that disabled much of Merck's shipping network in 2017 was not an act of war by the Russian government, and...
View ArticleThree notable recent deaths
In no particular order:Dale Clevenger played French horn for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 2013. He was 81.Sheldon Silver went to jail for taking bribes while New York Assembly Speaker....
View ArticleJust missed the snow
I'm waiting for my flight home at the Raleigh-Durham airport, watching Jim Cantore in Boston. You never want to see Cantore in your home town: it means horrible, rotten, no-good weather. The only nice...
View ArticleStupid person says stupid thing to get back into the news
The XPOTUS promised yet another thing that would hurt the people he claims to want to help, in part because he (and obviously they) deeply misunderstand how the laws work in this country:Former...
View ArticleWelsh government retracts advice about tenors
It turns out, tenors don't actually spread Covid more readily than the other three sections, despite what you may have heard from the Welsh Government:The advice appears to have been motivated by a...
View ArticleImpressive lightning
While we wait for the snow to start falling, the World Meteorological Organisation announced today that a lightning flash on 29 April 2020 extended for 768 km across three states and lasted for 10...
View Article"Endemic" doesn't mean "over"
What does it mean to say that Covid-19 has become endemic? The Atlantic argues, not much:Endemicity says nothing about the total number of infected people in a population at a given time. It says...
View ArticleThe IOC has to go
Jennifer Rubin says what I've been thinking:I have never been a fan of the Olympics. Or, I should say, I have never been a fan of the International Olympic Committee.An organization that rewards...
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