After all, it’s a free country. Right? Right?

Money corrupts! Well, unless the left is spending it. Then it is blessed and good and spent to fend off the evil of monied interests in politics: The great campaign spending limitation experiment is dead, and it died without a whimper from those who have spent lifetimes decrying monies influence on politics — all because their favored candidate wielded the knife. In Wisconsin, Republicans are re-learning this lesson as incumbent

Technically, the York blob is one half of a York 100lb dumbbell. Lifting the blob has long been considered one of the markers of real strength. To train for the blob lift, other block weights and devices are used, including smaller York “blobs”. As the weight progresses, so does the width of the blob — and though the changes in width are objectively quite small, the changes in terms of

Heading into Denver today for a Rockies game with the family. Yesterday it was 80-degrees here in Colorado. Today, the temp [sic] is going to drop into the 50s and by tonight we’re expecting a couple of inches of snow. So it goes. Consider this an open thread. Go to town, crack wise, have fun! — Unless your name happens to be Aymenn [sic], that is. In which case, stand

me: “Hey. I see that you have half my Big Mac and super-sized fries.” stranger at the table next to me: “Beg your pardon?” me: “No worries. Just wrap up my portion to go, would you? And throw me the keys to our Escalade? I have to go pick up my fair share of the Treadclimbers from Dick’s and then swing by Dairy Queen for some of the people’s large

Northwestern’s James Lindgren has posted “Ideology and Intelligence in Legal Scholarship” (Journal of Empirical Legal Scholarship, 2011, forthcoming), and from its abstract one gets the idea that the paper will be nothing if not controversial (and, I suspect, the replies ironically performative): A variety of commentators have suggested that there is positive correlation between the ideological valence of legal scholarship and the intellectual capacity of the author. In their most

Bill Wilson, ALG: Currently, the $14.2 trillion national debt already stands at 95.5 percent of the nation’s $14.8 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While it is unclear at what percentage of debt-to-GDP that the debt will become too large to refinance, the warning signs are already there that we cannot even meet our current obligations honestly. Pimco reports that in 2009, 80 percent of treasuries were purchased by the Federal

Fleeing the state to avoid doing your job — that is, refusing to accept that the will of the voters have put you in a position whereby you might not get what you want — is now akin to serving your country in Afghanistan. It follows in this fantastical scenario, of course, that by my pointing out how this cowardly squeakhole (and those like him) engaged in a de facto

Because “derangement” doesn’t just fund itself, people. Help a hater out. **** update: About half-way there! Thanks to all who’ve contributed. **** update 2, Wednesday: Meh. Don’t think I’ll get there. I’ll leave this up through Friday. Thanks to all who continue to support derangement and rhetorical stink bombing — particularly when you could be sniffing at it and getting patted on the back for your nuance (which stands in

Ever notice how those afflicted with such derangement — as I am now said to be — are seldom lauded by the left for their good sense and comity, or for their brave willingness to affect what the left has decided is bien pensant (an affectation that allows for inclusion among those select “fair” wingnut HATERS who shan’t as yet be entirely marginalized)? Personally, if I found that I was