December 2008
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In Praise of Idleness
Mark Kingwell (Toronto) comments.
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The Top 10 Events of 2008 in the Legal Academy
10. Jack Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule (both Harvard) were 'outed' as well-behaved "house conservatives" by badly behaved conserative Todd Zywicki (George Mason). 9. The law school at Berkeley won the 2008 "Thank God U.S. News never audits the data schools self-report" award. 8. Colorado's Paul Campos was selected by acclamation as "The Law Professor Most Hostile to
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Another Bush Legacy: Afghanistan
Here is what almost never makes it to The New York Times.
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Dysfunctional APA?
I’ve heard these complaints from a lot of folks now, and they are summed up, sharply, here and here. Not printing room locations of sessions in the program was really quite amazing.
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Fashionable Philosopher
Here. Click "skip ad" and then click through to the fifth photo. (Thanks to Charles Huenemann for the pointer.)
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Israeli Barbarism in Gaza
As usual, Counterpunch has a number of informative items: one might start here, and then scroll the left bar for other articles. The linked article makes the following apt observation: "HAMAS”… the word that, in this case, renders any action taken by the other side, no matter how barbaric or sadistic, legitimate. Couple any noun
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Friday Poem: “M’s Place”
M’s Place This is the farm standAnd that is the farm beyondWhere the good vegetables growI know you will want to seeThe Catholic church down the roadMy dentist is further-on the right There are other things tooWhich I may show youThey help to give some definitionTo what I am where I liveThey help to give
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A “legal education bubble?”
It seems probable.
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I would like to wish Eugene Volokh “Happy Birthday!”…
…even though I have no reason to think it is his birthday. But that's OK. (Link fixed now!)
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