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Month: April 2010

Badly Fragmented Court

April 29, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

I haven’t read the opinion yet — or I should say, all six opinions, because the concurrences and dissents interweave to create the result in Salazar v. Buono.  It would appear that the cross can remain up, so if the… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, News

Writing Again

April 27, 2010Burt Likko

It’s been quite a busy time in the real world, a place that I occupy much more often than the intellectually interesting but not-very-interactive land of Law And Policy Blogging.  So before I get into some thoughts about immigration reform,… Continue Reading →

California, Food, Handyman, Sickness and Health, Talking About The Weather, Writing

Beaten To The Punch

April 24, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Patrick beat me to today’s Amazingly Stupid Government Trick – when we are found to be subsidizing our cotton farmers so as to disadvantage more cost-efficient Brazilian cotton farmers, rather than agreeing to pay the sanctions, or to reform our… Continue Reading →

Government, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Link Love

Pornography Did Not Cause The Great Recession

April 24, 2010Burt Likko

First of all, I hate the phrase “Great Recession.” We’ve got to think up something better. “The Panic of 2007” would be more historically accurate. Second, it’s astonishing that we’re being told “more regulation” is the answer to what we… Continue Reading →

Government, Money, News, Scandal

Are Opening Pitchers Really A Good Idea?

April 23, 2010Burt Likko

Today at Freakonomics Blog, the idea of an “opener” position in baseball is thrown around – again. While George Will considered the idea and in fact it has been experimented with for over a hundred years in minor leagues, it’s… Continue Reading →

Link Love, Sports

Blame It On The Soviets For Going Away

April 23, 2010Burt Likko

A random thought from a psychologist:  If it seems that our country’s political discourse has grown increasingly polarized, intractable, and hostile, blame the Soviet Union for it.  Specifically, blame the Soviets for collapsing and depriving us of a meaningful enemy. … Continue Reading →

Armchair Psychoanalysis, Domestic Politics, Europe, History, International Politics

Reagan Not To Be On The Money

April 22, 2010Burt Likko 6 Comments

Once again, Americans prove to be remarkably conservative with their money – at least, with the issue of who and what is on their money. A proposal to take Ulysses S. Grant off the $50 bill and replace him with… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, History, Link Love, Polls, Trivia, Unimportant but Mildly Amusing

Admitting It

April 22, 2010Burt Likko 6 Comments

I said that giving billions of dollars to General Motors was wrong.  I said it was lighting the money on fire, we’d never see it back again, and it was being used to keep a dinosaur alive. While I’m not… Continue Reading →

Government, Industry and Commerce, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Money

How 420 Got Its Start

April 21, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Although I don’t actually like the stuff very much personally, I think it’s long, long past time to legalize it — and I’ve never quite understood why pot smokers place such mystical significance in the number 420.  The Waldos’ story… Continue Reading →

2010 Election, California, Domestic Politics

Clay and Harold

April 21, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

The plaintiff, Clay Greene claims that he was forcibly separated from Harold Scull, his partner of twenty-five years, with whom he had made a home for twenty, and with whom he was still deeply in love.  Greene he was put… Continue Reading →

California, Death, Domestic Politics, News, Same-Sex Marriage, Scandal

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