September 2011
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August 2011
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Erwin Chemerinsky's summary of the SCOTUSblog... →
Surprisingly, even though she was initially listed as a contributor, no posting by Maggie Gallagher was included in the forum. Pity.
SCOTUSblog is running a special feature on... →
As many of the participants in this symposium have explained in great detail, arguments to the contrary [for marriage equality] are unpersuasive. Some boil down to an implausibly narrow reading of the “right to marry” that engages with precedent at an indefensibly low level of generality and reads out of cases like Loving and Turner v. Safley their deep concern with respect for intimate...
jrvmajesty asked: What do you think of the similar political and policy-talk response to the UK riots, Philadelphia flashmobs and San Francisco BART protests?
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.... →
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Real Adulthood Is
realizing that you don’t have to be on anybody’s time line but your own, in re. home ownership, building a family, spending 60 hours a week at work.
If you think you’re an adult because you’re striving to be in the whatevereth percentile of folks your age on any of the aforementioned factors, you’ve got some growing to do.
This is a tough love way of saying...
New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making... →
(via www.theonion.com)
Fascinating Slideshow of Childrens' Bedrooms from... →
Really interesting is Jaime, age 9 (slide 9), who lives in a “top-floor apartment on Fifth Avenue” and whose parents “also own luxury homes in Spain and in the Hamptoms,” compared with Alyssa, age 8 (slide 4), who lives in a “small, shabby house, heated only by a wooden stove,” and, well, frankly, almost every other kid featured.
“Hello. It’s been a long week. Please leave an hour or so early today if...”
– My boss, in a single moment becoming the best person in the world.
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