Via Volokh we learn about some of the cutting edge research being done in the humanities:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=blowjob&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search
One could make an antinomian claim to validity on behalf of, say, a blowjob in a tearoom.
One could make a claim to that, I suppose.
If making claims like that was one’s major academic specialty, one might find onesself serving “fries [...]
Over at Crescat Sententia there’s an excellent post on constitutional interpretation that includes a quote from David Strauss
The implicit premise is that constitutional interpretation, if it is really faithfful to the Constitution, should not invariably lead to results that coinccide with the political views of the interpreter.
Discuss.
(my first take: I entirely agree)
Perhaps of interest to folks:
http://faculty.econ.nwu.edu/faculty/witte/B01/handouts/radford.html
The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp
By R.A. Radford
INTRODUCTION
After allowance has been made for abnormal circumstances, the social institutions, ideas and habits of groups in the outside world are to be found reflected in a Prisoner of War Camp. It is an unusual but a vital society. Camp organisation and politics [...]
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/03/1637232&tid=103&tid=219
Crap.
I was looking forward to the recount-induced riots and looting…
I had my eye on this awesome 17″ flatscreen display down at Staples :(
http://jtidwell.net/writing/reason.html
But the most unsettling aspect of this presidency has not been its
political positions, nor its policies, nor its actions. It’s the lack
of any counterbalance to Bush’s ideological orthodoxy. And that lack
of balance is leading us in a dangerous philosophical direction.
I don’t think that all positions should be balanced. If someone gets
up and argues in [...]
DF: I’m not a financial adult. I don’t even file my taxes quarterly.
TC: You had me at “taxes”.