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The Supreme Court Whigs Out

The Roberts Court would appear to be contradicting itself when it ruled both for the First Amendment in the case from Wisconsin Right to Life’s airing political ads in violation of McCain/Feingold but against it in the Alaska teen’s right to unfurl a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner across the street from a school [...]

Paxil Prufrock Goes Multimedia

I got an ultra-interesting e-mail today from a gentleman who has done a multimedia presentation of my “Paxil Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” poem. I’m surprised that someone I haven’t met in person has read it, let alone put effort into doing an animation for it. Check it out!

PS —There’s new stuff at the [...]

Of Fences and Failed Policy

Most immigration bills that come through Congress amount to the equivalent of trying to end depression by punishing suffering. And while there’s a lot to discuss in the current and perhaps moribund, one it is, like all the other ones, just a way to foment a discussion that is utterly moot. At best it provides [...]

Who’s Afraid of “A Room of One’s Own”?

Virginia Woolf’s notion of a “room of one’s own” in which women could be freed from the responsibilities of domestic life had a good deal of resonance when she postulated it in the first half of the 20th Century. It could easily be argued that women, who still perform the bulk of housework, still need [...]