“Simply Not True” (Or “Fisking the State of the Union”)

“Simply not true” is supposedly what Justice Samuel Alito mouthed when Barrack Obama’s State of the Union speech turned to the Citizens Unit...

Impossible*

In my last post I said it was impossible for me to learn another language, and then put an asterisk with the word “impossible.”   That is b...

On Cultural Nationalism

I have been vaguely aware of a trend in American culture, which is to try to get in touch with the roots of your so-called ethnic identity. ...

Calling Bullshit on Chemerinsky (or “Fisking a Law School Dean”)

Erwin Chemerinsky is a constitutional law professor and the Dean of the University of California Irvine School of Law. And you know, I have ...

Wear Your Hard Hats

I am constructing this blog as we speak. Hopefully nothing will fall on you. For instance, I have only barely started to put up my links. Th...

Freedom of Expression is for Everyone (Even Those You Don't Like)

On January 23, the New York Times denounced the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. F.E.C. , stating that “the court[] ... has ...

“So Who the Fuck are You?” (or: “About me”)

Okay, having managed to fight the blogger editor until it let me post, once, I figured it was time to tell you a little more about me.   I w...