Category: Media & Weblogs
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The 79th Carnival of the Liberals (Kicking Around George W. Bush & Evolution) is at the Capitol Annex.
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What the fluff is happening? (link) The Iraq war has ended, troops are coming home and Thomas Friedman has decided to stop scattering his pearls of wisdom. If you are scratching your head, see here. (link: Dean)
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Indian journalist, Manoj Joshi analyzes the possible impact of the upcoming Obama presidency on India and the rest of the world.
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As we all know by now, Prop 8 passed in California. This could be considered the one real defeat that liberals suffered on election day. The voters of California, in a direct vote on the issue, by a bare majority amended the California Constitution to eliminate the state constitutional right to same-sex marriage. As Ruchira…
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David Brooks is a lunatic. Well, either that or he’s writing his columns in bad faith, and I’d hate to accuse anyone of something so insulting as willful dishonesty. So he must just be some combination of stupid and insane! In today’s column, Brooks starts off by espousing his own flavor of Burkean ridiculousness, I…
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This morning, the local channels and newspapers were abuzz with the news report that a young McCain campaign worker had been robbed and assaulted near an ATM in Pittsburgh. [Ashley]Todd is a 20-year old Texas woman, a volunteer for the McCain-Palin campaign, who told police she was robbed and attacked by a man in Bloomfield.A…
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Accidental Blogger completes three years of its existence today – an unremarkable fact but still worth noting. The milestone probably qualifies as middle age by the standards of the blogosphere. I am less surprised by the blog’s longevity on this anniversary than I was last year. Blogging has now become more or less a daily…
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I will be leaving for India tomorrow and will return toward the end of the month. Unless I have something really interesting to report, I will not be posting during this period. My co-authors will keep the front page refreshed as often as time permits. They may not be able to post daily or as…
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Way back in the day (last October) I went off on Dozier Internet Law for its absurd website terms-of-use page, which made a number of laughable legal claims; these appear to me to basically be intellectual-property claims couched in contract context. I was particularly impressed by the You May Not Link Here Clause: "we ……
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.. and cancels his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, apparently because he has to rescue the economy from "cratering." Asked Letterman: "What are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We’ve got a guy like that now!" What’s going on? The Christian Science Monitor speculates.
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Who’s your candidate? Take the test. I scored once for McCain – on immigration. (Today is day 11 without electricity in my home)
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Fellow blogger and law professor Ethan Leib, whose views on friendship and the law were discussed here at some length a while ago has a gig as a columnist on NYT’s Freakonomics blog. Ethan’s first post is up and it is about the legal aspects of friendship, natürlich. At least two more articles authored by Ethan…
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