From the very first words I had published on the Internet, I’ve tried to come up with clever ways to tie the world of sports to more important issues. Never have I been as successful as Bill Maher in this clip: -AR Update: The HBO police have taken the video off the web, but here’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'white men'
What He Said
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports
Tags: Bill Maher·bleeding heartery·Brett Favre·Christine O'Donnell·Michelle Bachmann·Sarah Palin·white men
She Is A Real American
May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law School, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court
I could not support more strongly the idea that we need as much diversity as possible on the Supreme Court, and not just along the race/gender/religion/sexual orientation axes that we normally talk about. I understand that it’s difficult to get a cross-section of America on a nine-member body, but any time the president has an [...]
Tags: Bill O'Reilly·Dahlia Lithwick·diversity·Elena Kagan·Ivy League·Kathleen Parker·Paul Waldman·real America·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·Supreme Court·Tea Parties·white men
Turning Back the Clock
October 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics
National Review columnist John Derbyshire has a new book out titled We are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, which contains a section titled “The Case Against Female Suffrage.” Derbyshire’s main argument against female suffrage is that its bad for conservatives because single women want the government to take care of them and so they vote Democratic, [...]
Tags: civil rights·conservative logic·feminism·National Review·racism·white men·women's suffrage
New Haven’s Firefighter Test (Imagined)
June 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · AS, Arts and Entertainment, Supreme Court
Was I the only one disappointed to discover the Ricci opinion doesn’t include any of the actual promotion test questions that managed to weed out almost all minority candidates from possible promotion to fire lieutenant and captain positions in New Haven? It came out in oral argument that one question asked firefighters whether fire equipment [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen·firefighters·New Haven·racism·Ricci·Supreme Court·white men·yachts
In Less Glamorous Supreme Court News
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
While the headline today is Ricci, where the Court made great strides in quelling the tide of discrimination against white men (it’s a hard knock life for white guys in Connecticut!), I thought I would take a moment to call your attention to a case that barely made the news. On Friday the Court decided [...]
Tags: Confrontation Clause·Evidence·Melendez-Diaz·Paul Bergman·proof·Ricci·Supreme Court·white men
What if a white guy. . .
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court
Fantastic pieces in Slate’s “Supreme Court Breakfast Table” on double standards in the law. I’ve never understood why “double standard” has taken on such a negative connotation. The idea of making distinctions between, say, a race that was enslaved and legally oppressed for centuries and the race that enslaved and oppressed them strikes me as [...]
Tags: bleeding heartery·Slate·Sotomayor·What if Bill O'Reilly were gay?·white men
Nwt Gngrch :)
June 10th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics, Technology
I genuinely enjoy me some Twitter, but I can not think of anything more boring and useless than following a politician 140 characters at a time. I figure if a politician does something interesting, I’ll hear about it elsewhere. And I don’t need to get indoctrinated with some political message written in all lowercase and [...]
Tags: conservative logic·conservatives·Newt Gingrich·racism·Sotomayor·Twitter·white men