Monthly Archives: June 2012

UCLA Law is offering a course in the fall called “Animals in Agriculture” — which sounds like exactly the kind of thing I’d be interested in. I’m interested in eventually doing some hobby farming, and I’m also interested in how … Continue reading →

This is amazing.

I think this is a brilliant move by Roberts. He gets to maintain the Court’s reputation for Solomonic sagacity, fire a warning shot at Congress about future mandates (and the Commerce Clause generally), and — while everyone’s distracted by the … Continue reading →

From Amy Howe of ScotusBlog: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to … Continue reading →

Holy shit. Roberts steps into the breach: Basically the justices said that the individual mandate — the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine — is constitutional as a tax. Chief Justice John Roberts — a … Continue reading →

HBO has kindly uploaded the entire first episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom to YouTube, so if, like me, you’ve read a lot about it but haven’t actually seen it, well… read about it some more! The Good: Sam Waterston … Continue reading →

First, from Matt Yglesias, “Why It’s Unlikely That a Big GOP Win Will Lead to Deficit Reduction in One Chart”: It’s a chart from a Dartmouth survey (PDF) that, among other things, asked 1000 people what ideas for reducing the … Continue reading →

Fuck. The Scots are laughing at us. THE SCOTS. Jonny Scaramanga, 27, who went through the ACE programme as a child, but now campaigns against Christian fundamentalism, said the Nessie claim was presented as “evidence that evolution couldn’t have happened. … Continue reading →

My fantasy future home of Vermont can have a lovely sea-coast! The sea level on a stretch of the US Atlantic coast that features the cities of New York, Norfolk and Boston is rising up to four times faster than … Continue reading →

Paul Campos has an interesting theory about Justice Scalia: In a forthcoming book, Scalia disowns Wickard v. Filburn, the 70-year-old precedent on which his 2005 vote [in Gonzales v. Raich] was explicitly based…. Wickard, Scalia now says, “expanded the Commerce … Continue reading →