— yeah, well, you thought wrong. Seems having your shell “bedazzled” is not only surprisingly expensive, but it requires that you lie mostly still and belly down for a couple three hours even after leaving the salon. So not only did I spend the better part of the evening spoonfeeding the bastard his DQ Butterfinger Blizzard, but I did it while watching red white and blue-colored rhinestones harden into an
May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010
It's Friday, Jeff. And considering how we've weathered a week of technical talk about signs and signifiers and such, we thought maybe —
— yeah, well, you thought wrong. Seems having your shell “bedazzled” is not only surprisingly expensive, but it requires that you lie mostly still and belly down for a couple three hours even after leaving the salon. So not only did I spend the better part of the evening spoonfeeding the bastard his DQ Butterfinger Blizzard, but I did it while watching red white and blue-colored rhinestones harden into an
May 14, 2010
Is Kagan too deferential to executive power?
Damon Root at Reason seems to think the answer is yes — though whether one argues such deference pushes her more to the right or more to the left seems to depend on whose ox is being gored. Writes Root: […] by selecting Kagan—who famously chose to argue Citizens United as her very first appearance before the Supreme Court—Obama sent a clear message about the deferential role he wants the
May 14, 2010
“Cap and scam”
David Harsanyi, Denver Post: Were you aware that Americans have a collective obligation to stop kicking challenges to the next generation and join the White House in supporting “sweeping” and “transformative” legislation? I thought so. These days, there are few higher callings in Washington than pretending to save the environment. Authoritative “leadership” is sorely needed in this area — and quick, before the three-corner-hat-wearing Visigoths storm Washington’s barricades this midterm
May 14, 2010
"Cap and scam"
David Harsanyi, Denver Post: Were you aware that Americans have a collective obligation to stop kicking challenges to the next generation and join the White House in supporting “sweeping” and “transformative” legislation? I thought so. These days, there are few higher callings in Washington than pretending to save the environment. Authoritative “leadership” is sorely needed in this area — and quick, before the three-corner-hat-wearing Visigoths storm Washington’s barricades this midterm
May 14, 2010
Two rules for counting chickens
1) Don’t count them before they’ve hatched. 2) Don’t forget their tendency to come home to roost. * **** update: Now that I think about it, I easily could have added a third rule about it being important to remember to take off your counting shoes before heading back into the house and grinding chicken shit into the cream-colored Berber. But then, it’s probably best I didn’t burden you all
May 14, 2010
Advice to an egret, revisited
Were I to answer a certain egret’s concerns, I would say that we are not talking past each other, and that I know that even though we started off speaking about interpretation and have now moved on into application or enforcement or implementation, the principles of intentionalism are nevertheless still determinative. To wit, let me restate it this way and see if it makes a difference: the “interpretive” standard used