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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Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers
Probably worth reminding readers of this useful site.
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More Trouble Ahead in 2009 for Big Law Firms?
Bill Henderson (Indiana) looks at the data and analyzes the lessons of 2008.
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“Because New York Has Become a World Capital of Philosophy”
Reason #56 according to New York Magazine to "love New York." Only #56??? As a native New Yorker, I confess that the extravagant cost of living makes the city much less ‘lovable’ than it used to be. But perhaps the financial implosion will change all that.
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PGR Update
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 18 (for the benefit of those who may have missed it) The following e-mail has gone out to evaluators; I’m also pasting it below, though correcting the bit about the time zones (which I messed up in the original, sorry folks!): First: at the request of a number of you,…
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“Christian mathematics”
I don’t believe this is intended as a joke, though it should be. If I’m not mistaken, longtime readers may remember this fellow as one of the brainless blogospheric apologists for Intellient Design creationism we encountered ages ago. Age has not, it appears, resulted in a maturation of his intellectual faculties. (Thanks to Daniel Koffler…
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…