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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Quick Blackmail / Hostage situation update
Paul Krugman says: Think about it. There’s a significant chance that failing to raise the debt limit could provoke a renewed financial crisis — and Republicans would rather take that chance than allow a reduction in tax breaks on corporate … Continue reading
Military Planners OUT at The New York Times!
From the New York Times editorial yesterday, opining on Obama’s speech about Afghanistan troop withdrawal plans: He said that 10,000 of the 33,000 troops from the “surge” would come home before the end of this year, with the rest out … Continue reading
“Statistical Evidence Paradox”: bogus
Here is a criminal law version of [a] problem. Defendants are both hunters. They recklessly fire bullets in a direction where they heard a rustle even though they have good grounds for fearing that the rustle might have been caused … Continue reading
Chris Christie: a Sinner
According to Chris Christie’s wife, “her husband’s family responsibilities preclude a run for the presidency.” According to many Republicans, Christie represents our country’s best hope for getting off of the path to ruin that Obama has charted for us. And … Continue reading
“Forgiveness”: A non-sequitur?
I’m reading the book Ill-gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law by Leo Katz, and so far the book has been an interesting exploration of the question of whether and why it may be ok for 2 … Continue reading
Mickey Kaus
asks a funny question: If a Tweet Falls in the Forest …: Hmm. You know those attractive women who want to friend you on Facebook? They may be fictitious “bimbots.” Which raises the question: What if Anthony Weiner had sent photos of his … Continue reading
One more round on Kervorkian
Ross Douthat, responding to a blogger (called “Drum”) who raised basically the same objections as I did to his Kervorkian critique, writes: For Drum, though, a question: Assuming that the would-be suicide is of sound-enough mind and uncoerced, are there … Continue reading
Ross Douthat on Kervorkian
Could it ever be more wrong to assist someone commit an act than to commit the act itself? It seems generally like it isn’t: the accomplice to the bank robbery is obviously less culpable than the robber. But Ross Douthat … Continue reading
2 kinds of laws
Jack Kervorkian, a champion of personal freedom who helped people die the way they wanted to die, died two days ago of natural causes. John Delaney, an entrepeneur who ran an online current events betting site (www.intrade.com), died last week … Continue reading
You know we’re losing control of the meaning of the term “conspiracy theory”
when a National Review columnist (the guy on the right) does not object to the use of that term to describe the view that the source of Anthony Weiner’s twitter account’s controversial tweet was….. Anthony Weiner. (critical question: who would … Continue reading