October 2004
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Time for Civilization to Start Sweating…
Today, Rasmussen has the Fascist Theocrat tied with the Slightly More Prudent Representative of the Ruling Class at 48% each. And Zogby, for a second day, has Bush up by 2-3 points.
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Gazing at my navel…
…I note the following blog milestone yesterday: namely, over 3,000 visits in a single day, without the benefit of some prominent right-wing dope having linked to me (in order to attack me for not treating their preferred shibboleths respectfully etc. etc.). 72% of visitors yesterday had been here before (the number, I’m sure, is higher,…
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Supreme Court Survivor
Anupam Chander (Law, UC Davis) has developed an on-line game (modelled, of course, on one of the popular “unreality reality TV” genres) called “Supreme Court Survivor” here. As Professor Chander writes: the game is meant “to dramatize the impact of a Bush ‘re-‘election on our civil liberties….[I]t allows you to vote justices off the Court–each…
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The 4th Philosophers’ Carnival is…
here. This is a selection of entries from various philosophy blogs submitted by readers.
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Karl Rove Must be Sweating…
…after seeing this on Rasmussen Reports: “Monday October 25, 2004–The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows Senator John Kerry with 48% of the vote and President George W. Bush with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. “This is the first time Senator Kerry has held the lead since August 23.…
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100 Facts and 1 Opinion…
about the Bush Presidency. If you know someone who is rational, literate, not pathological, and still undecided, send them this link.
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More on the “Socratic” Method of Teaching…from a philosopher
He writes: “I disliked as a student the Socratic method for the same reason why I disliked group work: My fellow students generally didn’t know anything about the subject in question. I wanted to hear from the person who had expertise in the area–the professor. (An assumption of Plato, of course, was that the subject…
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An October Surprise (a Nightmare for the World)?
I’ve no idea whether this is credible or not, but it’s a venal group in Washington, so who knows? An excerpt: “According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran’s…
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What should law teaching candidates expect at the “meat market”?
The “meat market” is the annual hiring convention sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools; this year, it is the weekend after the U.S. election (which means most interview teams will either be very depressed or very relieved). One candidate on the teaching market (not a UT graduate) e-mails this morning with a good…
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The Scandal of American Law Reviews
“Socratic” teaching is one scandal of legal education; but the other is student-edited law reviews. Since arguments from authority carry a lot of weight, I’m pleased to see Dick Posner making the arguments! (Reminder: he will be guest-blogging here the last week of December.) An excerpt from Judge Posner’s remarks: “The system of student-edited law…
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Theocracy anyone?
This from the Orwellian “Constitution Restoration Act” currently in Congress (ever notice that all these bills have names straight out of Orwell?): “the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an element of Federal, State, or local…
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The Coming Election Debacle: Republican Voter Intimidation, Litigation, and on and on
With the news that the Republicans are preparing extensive voter harassment under the guise of “poll watching” in Ohio (who will watch the poll watchers?), John Dean’s little tour through the Republican tradition of voter harassment–and its contribution to election litigation–is timely: “In 1986, former Assistant United States Attorney James Brosnahan (today a noted San…
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The Mary Cheney Distraction
A sharp column by Katha Pollitt; an excerpt: “Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush’s bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind’s revelatory New York Times Magazine cover story, the President himself recently told a closed Republican meeting that…
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Feeling lonely, terrified?
Visit “Lie Girls,” the real “October surprise” of the Bush campaign.
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The Face of Moral Depravity
Here. (Thanks to Doug Barnes for the pointer.)
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…