Chewbacca fondles Marilyn Monroe at Harry Potter movie premiere. I wonder how the police sketch artist is going to handle that one. “I realize he was quite hairy. Were there any other distinguishing characteristics, ma’am?”
I logged in to my YouTube account, and here’s what I saw: Kind of sad when the company that’s getting sued by everyone in the universe insults my social skills.
In law school, I was taught that when a case involves something really awful the government is doing, but the court doesn’t want to actually speak out on the issue, it spends a lot of time explaining why the plaintiffs… Continue Reading
As usual, The Smoking Gun is there. I’ve seen and handled bigger checks than this, but it’s kind of cool to see anyway.
Hillary Clinton, for all her national prominence, name recognition, lightning-rod fame, and not inconsiderable legislative experience, seems to step into a room that’s had all the air sucked out of it whenever she gives a speech. But somehow, Barack Obama… Continue Reading
Jay Cost argues that television has made the Vice-Presidency important, and that the manner in which Vice-Presidential nominees are selected is profoundly undemocratic and antiquated in the modern era. But as I wrote yesterday evening, the way Presidential nominees are… Continue Reading
Senator Jon Tester wants to proclaim victory in Iraq as a precedent to a withdrawal of our troops. “Victory” being defined, I suspect, as displacing Saddam Hussein’s government and replacing it with a representative government that operates on democratic principles.… Continue Reading
In preparing for a project for Oval Office 2008, I’ve been looking not only at the schedule of primary elections but also the way that the primaries are set up. It’s quite messy. Lots of states still have caucuses, where… Continue Reading
Wisdom from the Buddha: “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”