What an impressive letter, here. Thanks to the economists at marginalrevolution.com for the link, from a reporter’s FOIA request for her mom’s emails: I love how she puts the important parts in bold. She must know that her parents skim. My dad used to send me letters with footnotes, since he knew how…
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Le Gardien de Registre a le rapport ici. Plus dans Paris Match: Ils s’appellent Alek Skarlatos et Spencer Stone. Ils se connaissent depuis l’enfance. Ils sont devenus aujourd’hui de véritables héros salués comme tels par le président des États-Unis, Barack Obama, et le chef d’État français, François Hollande. Les deux…
7/5/2015: This Posner guy has a decent vitae, he’d probably have tenure if not for his obvious problem following the policy on civility and cyberbullying. No word on whether the law school is pursuing disciplinary action for his comments in Slate, here:
… I say that gratuitous interference in other people’s lives is bigotry.
… The chief justice criticizes the majority for “order[ing] the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. Just who do we think we are?” We’re pretty sure we’re not any of the above. And most of us are not convinced that what’s good enough for the Bushmen, the Carthaginians, and the Aztecs should be good enough for us. Ah, the millennia! Ah, the wisdom of ages! How arrogant it would be to think we knew more than the Aztecs—we who don’t even know how to cut a person’s heart out of his chest while’s he still alive, a maneuver they were experts at.
… Prohibiting gay marriage is discrimination.
6/26/2015: Chief Justice Roberts calls the wrath of Han and Carthage down upon American people
WWeek has the news, here. The RG has an even more disturbing report, here.
NYT report and obituary here.
That would be Bob Keefer of Eugene Art Talk, here. His amputated foot post is here. Shop online here.
I’ve worked in Wolf Point Montana, read a few books about wolves (but nothing as good as J. Frank Dobie’s The Voice of the Coyote). I’ve seen plenty of coyotes and heard a few wolves in Yellowstone, I think, and I’ve got a PhD in Economics specializing in public finance.…
Retired rancher and rodeo announcer weaves hats for babies. The Bend Bulletin has the story, here.
In the Register Guard, here.
I sleep better at night knowing we’ve got nuclear submarines with nuclear missiles, manned by men with a personal stake in freedom:
I’m old enough to remember back when the Supreme Court would only make unanimous rulings on civil rights cases, because they all believed that any dissent would leave an opening for racist crazies to tear the country apart. Now the NYTimes reports that the court has decided they can’t be…
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The NYT has the disappointing news on the exchange rate.
LBJ signing the civil rights act. A calm, convincing, and inspiring speech: And while I’m on the subject of personal liberty, I feel the need to mention my fellow Tandem High School graduate David Garner. David’s eloquent junior year book report presentation on Robert Moses’s biography of LBJ forever changed…