Bush v. The Onion: You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda – stopping The Onion, [...]
Jeffrey Rosen called Chicago law professor Richard Epstein the “intellectual guru” of a movement to “resurrect the Constitution in Exile,” meaning the effort to roll-back the New Deal. So I wasn’t surprised to see him arguing that corporations should be allowed to demand genetic tests of potential employees if they so please. He does so [...]
Regarding Harriet Miers, who was picked by Bush to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said: She’s a woman who understands judicial restraint. And that about sums it up – they needed a woman or a minority, but they needed one who ‘knows her place’ … [...]
OK, I’ll admit that I consider most community access television shows to be a joke, especially Rabbi Mordechai Friedman’s “Judaism, The Series” where I once watched him explain that the New York City blackout started in Ohio because Ohio is the home of Reform Judaism. He then proceeded to curse (in the biblical sense) the [...]
This December, Shashwati and I are going to India to shoot a documentary film about the residents of one city’s slum who are using theatre to fight back against decades of prejudice and police oppression. Help us tell their story. Even though we are paying our own way to India, we need to raise $15,000 [...]
I haven’t blogged about Roberts because there doesn’t seem to be any point. He will be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He may even be, as people claim, a careful judge who respects the law. The argument being that his ideology will be tempered by his respect for precedent and procedure, and [...]
I can’t stand A Prairie Home Companion, but it wasn’t something I was going to blog about until Ish brought my attention to the fact that Garrison Keillor is suing some blogger for making a T-Shirt which reads: “A Prairie Ho Companion.” I think the blogger is right that it falls within fair use. I [...]
Seems that violent worker protests aren’t unique to China, and “Made in Taiwan” does not ensure that something is made under humane working conditions. A riot by Thai workers on Sunday night in Kaohsiung wasn’t a prison riot, but there were many common features. Although the workers are not prisoners, their freedom is restricted to [...]
I’ve stayed out of the whole “stolen” election issue, because I tend to believe that both sides play pretty dirty whenever they can. I’m all for creating a more transparent system, and having a paper trail, and a host of other electoral reforms (such as instant runoff voting) but I’ve never seen anything conclusive showing [...]
If, as Doonesbury suggests, the terrorists really are after us because they hate freedom, there may be no need to fear any longer. The NLRB has ruled that it is perfectly legal for an employer to ban workers from socializing on their free time! When I first read this on JJ’s blog I thought it [...]