Month: October 2007
Your Carbon Footprint
How do you measure it? The web can help.
Birds Do It …
Bees do it. And snails can do it to the tune of Sexy Boy by Air. Actually, I found the whole video totally gross.
Dumbledore and Originalism
Only a lawyer could write a sentence like this:
In the balance of this column, I will explain why James Madison is no more of an authority on the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, than J.K. Rowling is on Dumbledore’s sexual orientation.
More signs of legal desperation here:
As someone whose middle name begins with "Vlad," I may be blogging in the future about my own interests in vampires and the law — what Buffy has to do with property law and the law and economics insights of Angel.
Beats torts, I guess.
Uh-Oh
Ponnuru and I are on the same page re: Huckabee:
He seems to combine some of Pat Buchanan’s bad ideas with some of George W. Bush’s. He’s the protectionist compassionate conservative. No thanks.
Why Obama Still Matters
A reader reminds me of that Petraeus hearing. An Obama supporter writes:
This YouTube must be watched. Watch Obama in what is a (long) but phenomenal delivery. He has the classical combination of pathos and logos. Just get past the initial obligatory lapel-pin intros and he begins relating immeasurable urgency with an almost hurtful touch of frustration, and remains a civil questioner.
We need to channel abiding anger at the awful mismanagement, betrayal of our ideals and blind arrogance that has led us into a nightmare without end in Iraq, and that now seeks, having lost Turkey as a solid ally, to take the war to Iran as well. Yes, we are doing better at tamping down violence in Iraq, thank God and the troops. No one is in any way disputing the heroic job the troops and Petraeus are doing in preventing a full-scale plunge into the abyss of regional warfare. But there is still no strategy for meaningful success or exit, and a huge potential for more, and more dangerous, war in the future, involving Iran and Turkey. And the costs keep escalating. In this awful impasse, we need a president all of us can trust. We need exactly the blend of passion and reason that Obama offers. Yes, he needs to prove himself more as a campaigner. Yes, he’s not perfect. But I still think he’s the best feasible hope in a rapidly gathering storm.
Live-Blogging The Wildfires
A first-person account from San Diego.
Stewie vs Osama
Here’s a weapon the West needs to use more – not as a replacement for finding and killing these thugs, but as a reminder of what pathetic losers they are:
Commentary and Fallows
Quote For The Day
"You know, torture is the method of choice of the lazy, the stupid and the pseudo-tough," – Adm. Hutson, former JAG Officer and current Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, at the Mukasey hearings.
The Dish 