The key thing to understand is that the libertarian cranks who have long dominated Republican policy don't just disdain empirical evidence, they treat self-serving back-of-a-napkin "models" as if they *were* empirical evidence dorfonlaw.org/2020/11/richar…
It was always inevitable that Trump was going to govern as a more-orthodox-than-Reagan Reaganite, because Trumpism is just the purest distillation of Reaganism
I am pleased to be reminded of the Hall of Fame post that featured Epstein being attacked by Randy Barnett for being too statist examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/2004…
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I can't wait for the longform piece about the decision to trade up to draft Trubisky we will inevitably get when Pace and Nagy get fired after the season
This is amazing stuff. Sure Trubisky was by far the least accomplished of the 3 QBs, and he didn't have more impressive physical skills either, but he DROVE A '97 CAMRY HE IS NO GLORY BOY
Caldwell, who had BEEN TO A SUPER BOWL as a HC and WON a Super Bowl as an OC with Joe Flacco at QB and had two winning seasons in 3 years with a bad organization, ranks 20th. Gase, coming off one year with a negative point differential, is the next Belichick.
Pelosi passed a second $3 trillion relief package in May you bootlicking hack
And yes what a mystery why a relief bill isn't passing with Biden as the president-elect I wonder what could explain it
Needless to say, if Democrats took McConnell's feeble corporate immunity-for-almost-nothing offer he would be screaming about how they're neoliberal sellouts.
While the attitudinal model is a useful first approximation, the best way to think about appellate judicial behavior if Michael Klarman's two continua: legal texts range from determinate to indeterminate, policy preferences from weak to strong lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/02/think-…
The attitudinal model works quite well for Supreme Court decisonmaking because the interesting cases disproportionately cluster at the right end of both continua. At he circuit court level, judges often have less discretion.
This, exactly. Basically, "best concert films ever" is just TLW, Stop Making Sense, and The T.A.M.I. Show staring down at all else from Mt. Kilimanjaro.
I lot of people are mentioning Woodstock, but it falls well short of the summit because the performances aren't good enough. First in terms of artists: no Beatles/Stones/Dylan/Joni/Led Zep at all, no Band/CCR/Dead in the movie. It's mostly minor artists in uneven performances
Doing my usual Thanksgiving screening of The Last Waltz and it remains striking the extent to which Levon is the star even if he hated Robbie/Scorsese too much to know it
I ultimately like the movie more than she does but @thehighsign's piece is brilliant on the general personal dynamics in play slate.com/culture/2012/0…
And ultimately there can be no better historical tribute to Rick Danko that on "It Makes No Difference" he is able to stand toe-to-toe with some absolute vocal titans (most notably Muddy, Van, and Joni)