Participation
- Erick Rhoan on Justice Injustice: I did. When you get items like “tony constable” (Jones) and “when the lady of the...
- adam on Anesthetized from Life: “Specifically, that nobody would have written such a ridiculous story if it weren’t true.”...
- Peter on Anesthetized from Life: The alleged virtues of faith were the capstone of the Easter sermon at Northwest, which gave the thing a...
- Calladus on Anesthetized from Life: I was disappointed to learn that the coffee and donuts at New Covenant Church in Fresno were not...
- Erick Rhoan on Anesthetized from Life: You were at church?
- Heath on Anesthetized from Life: “How do we know that Jesus was resurrected? Because the story makes no sense! And this makes our lives...
- Annie on Anesthetized from Life: Well said. I agree. I spent Easter morning riding around on my scooter enjoying the beautiful reality of...
- Peter on Constructive Talk about Values: Your applause is unwanted and unneeded. The point of this post and the last is that the way...
- EFletch on Constructive Talk about Values: “One of the great evils of religion is the way it tends to set values through power...
Archive
Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Problem of Persuasion
One of the many things they don’t teach you in law school is how to persuade someone, especially someone in a black robe. How do you “make your case”? Law school did teach me how to do legal analysis—or at least … Continue reading
Secure the Good, Amend the Evil
I recently subscribed to The Green Bag, subtitled “An Entertaining Journal of Law.” Having read through most of the Winter 2009 edition (the only one I’ve received so far), I’m not sure the word “entertaining” usefully describes this journal, but … Continue reading
Hobbes, Heidegger, Rawls, Bruce, and a Priest Walk into a Bar
I have elsewhere suggested that granting religious exemptions to otherwise generally applicable laws is a bad idea because, of the two ideas in conflict—the religious idea of the exempted person and the legal idea of the society, the legal idea … Continue reading
Or a Cunning Hacker?
So it appears that maybe Amazon.com is not engaging in censorship. A hacker says he did it, basically by exploiting an Amazon.com “feature” for reporting “inappropriate content.” I’ve always thought those kinds of “features” on websites were dangerous. “Weev” says he … Continue reading
There Are No Dirty Books, Only Dirty Booksellers
Watch out for the censorship—it’s everywhere: even on Amazon.com. (Also, despite his appearance in the photo accompanying the linked article, Gore Vidal is still alive.)
Justice Jackson was All Too Right
Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and former United States Attorney General, made a famous observation about appellate argument: I made three arguments of every case. First, came the one that I planned as I … Continue reading
All the Penns of the Rainbow
Nice. So while Sean Penn is just an irritating, big-mouthed, political blowhard, Kal Penn (a.k.a. “Kumar,” a.k.a. “Dr. Kutner“) is actually going to work for the White House as a low-level staffer: [I]t’s not exactly a glamour job—he’s actually going to be a … Continue reading
Mid Cal Tour of Champions
I just discovered that Drum Corps International (DCI) will be in Clovis on Friday, June 26, 2009, for the “Mid Cal Tour of Champions.” Performing corps include the Blue Devils, corps A, B, and C, the Blue Knights, the Bluecoats, the … Continue reading