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Monthly Archives: December 2006
New field of legal inquiry
Uncritical Legal Studies (hypocritical legal studies?). Also, Uncritical Race Theory. (Both are inspired by the Uncritical Theory movement so popular on the Continent.) [PRIOR ART WATCH: there are several Goog hits for “uncritical legal studies” but they’re just citations to … Continue reading
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T. Rex saying “Shit”
A dinocomix reader put together this montage of all the sixth panels where T. Rex says, “Shit.” It’s awesome, and forms another convincing piece of the dinocomix case for conceptual art.
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Against legislative history
I’m (re?)reading Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. to review for Civ Pro, and it contains a really damning and awesome indictment of legislative history as an interpretive tool. It’s pretty cool, and clever, too. … Continue reading
Tough love
Great article at Reason about the numerous “boot camps” and “tough love” programs for kids that engage in horrifying physical and psychological abuse all the while failing to cure the drug addictions and “behavioral problems” the kids are sent in … Continue reading
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“Solution” to chicken-egg problem
Some dudes say they solved the chicken-egg problem. Of course, the way they “solved” it is by fine-tuning the definitions of “chicken” and “egg.” While I think this basically identifies the nature of the problem correctly, it seems a little … Continue reading
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No more trackbacks
It was too hard to deal with trackback spam, so I’ve turned them off till I stumble on a better solution.
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Don’t get stuck in the honey! (That’s punishable by death)
My brother discovered this hilarious form of religious indoctrination. (On a more serious note, I’m actually sympathetic to the idea that it’s only fair to have a version of “Candyland” you can give your kids without having to add parenthetical … Continue reading
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Free music: Bound Together
I really, really like “Bound Together,” a project to remix the soundtrack from the SNES game “Earthbound” (“Mother 2″). I’m awful busy so I can’t talk about it much, but the Earthbound soundtrack was (partly) by Hip Tanaka, who did … Continue reading
Hilarious juxtaposition in Freakonomics takedown
So apparently Diane Coyle nominated Freakonomics as one of the most overrated books, complaining that “[e]conomics as freak show [is, d]epressingly, . . . the only way to gain a wider audience” for an economics book. On the other hand, … Continue reading
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Child rape and the small penis rule
Michael Crowley wrote an essay critical of Michael Crichton’s terrifying political influence, so Crichton wrapped him up in the clever disguise of “Mick Crowley” and made him a minor character in his new novel. Mick Crowley is a child rapist … Continue reading
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