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May 2010

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2010 4 Comments

Elena Kagan "reportedly" is going to be Obama's pick. Which means that Elena Kagan probably will not be Obama's pick, or at least don't bet on it.Quite the topic in the law-related blogosphere is Kagan's sparce paper record, at least in comparison to other nominees...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2010 9 Comments

I've been feeling lately that maybe I took the wrong career path.Investment law is interesting and satisfying, but I can't escape the gnawing feeling that there could have been other, even more titillating fields in which to concentrate.Cornell Prof. Michael Lynn obviously is having no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 2 Comments

All is good. God saved the pubs.Update: Jumping in Pools has more on the beer campaign.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Low-Slung Baggy Pants Are A Human RightWorst. Ever.We Are All Gillian Duffy NowFollow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 10 Comments

The Onion recently released a spoof of a mythical Supreme Court ruling upholding the right to freedom of speech, replete with a fauxto of Ruth Bader Ginsburg flipping a double bird. As with many productions by The Onion, there was a glancing plausibility to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 7 Comments

Hate Springs Eternal, by Paul Krugman (emphasis mine):"Racism, misogyny and character assassination are all ways of distracting voters from the issues, and people who care about the issues have a shared interest in making the politics of hatred unacceptable."Racism, misogyny, character assassination, and the politics...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 6 Comments

This is my obligatory "Tommy, you're doing a heck of a job" post. Or more appropriately, "Tommy, keep paddling."Jake reports, I repeat:Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 18 Comments

The Washington Post, among other mainstream media outlets, relentlessly stokes claims that Tea Partiers are racist.Eugene Robinson accuses almost everyone who opposes the Obama agenda -- but particularly those active in the Tea Party movement -- of being motivated by racism and prone to violence.Jonathan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 4 Comments

That is why my first reads in the morning are Politico:And Chris Cillizza: Without them, I wouldn't know what to think.-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter and Facebook ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 17 Comments

I saw a thread on Memeorandum linking to a ridiculous post, titled Bush, Slave Labor and Arizona, by the founder and Editor of BuzzFlash.com, Mark Karlin.BuzzFlash bills itself as a progressive online community, which probably is why I had not heard of it before, despite...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

I was waiting for this ruling, because I could not stand living in a world where it was illegal to wear baggy pants so low that your ass showed.From Britain, our window into the future where underpants get to see the light of day (emphasis...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 42 Comments

The core of Democratic Party political strategy is falling apart. As reported by The New York Times, Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races:Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

Dana Milbank argues that conservatives are hypocritical in seeking government involvement in the Gulf oil cleanup, Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better:There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 3 Comments

Not who you think, although there could be more than one.''I believe Gordon Brown has been the worst prime minister we have had in this country. ''It is a disgrace and he owes an apology to the people and the Queen.'' As stated by Manish...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 17 Comments

One of the arguments raised against the Arizona immigration law (in addition to it being the modern incarnation of Nazism) was that states had no authority under the U.S. Constitution to conduct their own immigration policies.So I presume we will hear howls of constitutional outrage...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 24 Comments

Nah, that would be too easy, and relatively painless compared to weighing in on the "Harvard Racist E-mail" controversy.Haven't heard of it? Join the other 99.999% of Americans. But in the law-related blogosphere, the controversy is all the rage the past few days.For various versions...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 7 Comments

Gordon Brown is feeling the wrath of the little and not so little people in Britain, after he called Gillian Duffy a "bigot."Now things seem to be spinning out of control, as even a Dean at Oxford University has heckled Brown for making the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 4 Comments

That's what David Cameron (Conservative - U.K.) has made one of his campaign themes:In a Sunday Times interview, the Conservative leader revealed the four pieces of legislation that would dominate his debut Queen’s speech ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 9 Comments

Intergenerational warfare is breaking out in Greece as youth blame their elders for the economic mess, resulting from decades of welfare-state policies, that has left Greece bankrupt.I wonder whether the questions being asked by the youth of Greece are the same questions our children and...

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