Year: 2008
Paid For By Johm McCain?
Mickey Kaus notices something interesting about McCain’s new “Tolerance” ad, aside from the fact that it’s two and a half minutes of lets-all-work-together-to-make-this-country-great feel-good noise: Johm McCain? Read more
In Which I Try To Repair My Reputation
It seems like everybody in my favorite part of the legal blogosphere (or the “blawgosphere” if you insist) is trying to help out Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Mark Bennet’s Google rank by linking to him with helpful link text like “Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer.” (You’re welcome, Mark.) Meanwhile, I was checking out my own search… Read more
Broken Windows and the Iraq War
Frederick W. Kagan has an article in National Review Online that attempts to refute some of the antiwar arguments about Iraq. I haven’t read the whole thing—It’s a huge piece that covers a lot of ground, and some of it may even be correct—but there’s a pretty glaring example of the broken-windows fallacy in the… Read more
Slit Skirts – Sunday Song Lyrics
The other day I heard an acoustic version of Pete Townshend’s “Slit Skirts” and actually got to listen to the lyrics. It’s depressing stuff: The incense burned away and the stench began to riseAnd lovers now estranged avoided catching each others’ eyes And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coilAnd… Read more
This Is Not a Good Sign
About a month ago, I wrote a post about a school principal who ordered a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of possessing prescription-strength ibuprofen. I thought it was outrageous, and I made the point that if any other adults had asked for a look at the girl’s private parts they would have been rightly… Read more