and then there’s Hit by the Bus.
13 June, 2008
Intellectual Rigor
That’s what the Washington Post finds, straight-faced, in the Ninth Circus judge with an apparent conflict of interest – in an obscenity case.
“If you found this kind of thing in your kid’s bedroom you would wash your kid’s mouth out with soap,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at Loyola University Law School. “Character counts for judges because they have so much power and affect so many people’s lives.”
Write your own punch lines, folks. I’m busy.
An Important Lesson Learned
Just not the one the idiot teachers thought they were going to teach.
Wrong Questions
Megan McArdle has some very good points.
Brutality is pretty much the norm for most of human history; as we’ve gotten richer, we’ve gotten less violent in all sorts of ways–we’ve stamped out (mostly) once common practices like infanticide, torture, wife beating, and the stoning of adulterers. Hunter gatherers are vastly more likely to die from homicide than people living in the developed world. Goodness is, in some sense, a luxury good. The most valuable luxury good we have.
