Today is Mea Culpa day at the Literature R Us corral, when I pause to stop making vicious fun of people I generally don’t like, like Eugene “Jan. 6? Wasn’t that a Tuesday?” Volokh and Ross “Yeah, I think it was a Tuesday” Douthat because, well, because they impressed me. I’ll talk about Gene first,…
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Jan. 6? That was so 1,146,049 minutes ago!
“Mike Pence’s Immunity Claim Sure Seems Frivolous” snorted the National Review’s Andy McCarthy a few weeks back after it was alleged by some presumably well-informed personage that former Veep Michael Pence would be rejecting any subpoena from the grand jury investigating the efforts of former aspiring caudillo Donaldo del Trumpo to reverse the outcome of…
Literature R Us Special Conspiracy Edition: Mohammed Bin Salman, Graeme Wood, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Eugene Volokh! Oh, yeah, and Rothschild space lasers too!
Seriously, those Rothschild space lasers are a bitch! They zapped me a couple of years ago, and I’ve been incredibly stupid ever since. So here’s the deal. A couple of days ago, the Atlantic ran a long article by Graeme Wood on Saudi Kingfish Mohammed Bin Salman, Absolute Power, based, according to Wood, on three…
Passive-aggressive hypocrisy hath made its masterpiece: The Volokh Conspiracy’s conspiracy against the rule of law
The Volokh Conspiracy is a website that describes itself as “Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent”. They forgot to add “Frequently Lukidist”. The eponymous founder of said conspiracy is Eugene Volokh. To call Gene’s c.v. “glittering” is probably the understatement of the decade. A bona fide mathematical genius, he…
Socio-cultural-politico-judicio notes from all over
Dr. Seuss and the New Iconoclasts The recent sturm und drang regarding Dr. Seuss leaves me a bit on the outside of things, because, unlike most people, to me the “old” Dr. Seuss is the real Dr. Seuss. I loved the outrageous creatures that populated If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I…
Eugene Volokh, brilliant and noble champion of the First Amendment or just another brick in the wall?
Both, actually. At the age of 10, in 1978, Mr. Volokh took the Math “Aptitude” SAT and scored 780 out of 800. He graduated from UCLA at 15, later graduated from UCLA Law, and now teaches there, and also runs the estimable, largely libertarian “Volokh Conspiracy” website. Here is what someone who is quite reasonably…
Good Court, Bad Court
The U.S. Supreme Court decided, rightly, in my opinion, that the statutory construction given the Affordable Care Act by the Obama Administration is consistent with the overall intent, if not the letter, of the act. The Court also decided, wrongly, in my opinion, that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marry. Both decisions were quite…