Participation
- Rebecca on The Tiny Constable: I love it when other SC justices answer back to Scalia’s ass-holery.
- adam on 4’33″: Rehearsal must be a breeze.
- adam on The Tiny Constable: The English language is so fucking stupid.
- Steven on The Problem of Persuasion: I, for one, would much rather have my guilt or innocence determined by a computer, than a lot of...
- Steven on Law vs. Justice: Law MUST have equal consideration for justice! EVERY written law has a justifiable contradiction to that law....
- Peter on The Tiny Constable: I’m pretty sure “secrete” is a verb meaning “to conceal.”
- adam on The Tiny Constable: Except the episode would be about whether “Tory Belleci can secret himself” rather than...
- Peter on Still Searching: Thanks.
- Rebecca on Still Searching: Good post.
Tweets
- .@RepJeffDenham If you won't support high speed rail, then I won't support you.
- RT @calladus: The minority voices of #Christian extremists are heard so clearly because the majority of Christian moderates refuse to sp ...
- @ATF628 Did you get anything good?
- RT @jboren4507: Read half-dozen stories today about people getting thrown under the bus. CHP should investigate outbreak of bus v. ped. ...
- @senatorboxer Vote NO on PIPA and SOPA. Stopping piracy is a good idea; trampling free expression in the process is a terrible idea.
- @RepJeffDenham Vote NO on PIPA and SOPA. Stopping piracy is a good idea; trampling free expression in the process is a terrible idea.
- @calladus Is that study merely OF beliefs, or study driven BY beliefs?
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Why Government Deficit Spending is Not Evil
During the last week or so, Neil H. Buchanan has written some great essays for FindLaw’s Writ and Dorf on Law to address “the public’s perverse and misinformed attitudes about federal deficit spending.” I recommend that you read all of them … Continue reading
Ending the Entanglement of Belief and Unbelief
Sam Harris said a couple years ago, and I can hardly disagree: We should not call ourselves “atheists.” We should not call ourselves “secularists.” We should not call ourselves “humanists,” or “secular humanists,” or “naturalists,” or “skeptics,” or “anti-theists,” or … Continue reading
Critical Thinking Failure
According to Snopes, there’s an email going around in which the anonymous author complains that President Obama, after telling corporate CEOs that “[y]ou can’t get corporate jets, you can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the … Continue reading
Justice is Human and so are Judges
Here is Jeff Sessions, Republican senator from Alabama, on Fox News, talking about the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor (flabbergasting bits in boldface): I think in the American system of justice, a judge takes an oath to be impartial … Continue reading
Marital Property and the Nature of Law
Yesterday I read Batlan v. Bledsoe (In re Bledsoe) and afterward couldn’t help but spend a long time thinking about marital property and the nature of law. Bledsoe is a bankrtupcy case, but it relates to marital property law in … Continue reading