A 21-year-old woman used meth while she was pregnant. That this was a monumentally bad thing to do isn’t the question. There’s no really good time to use meth, and people who use meth tend to make monumentally bad choices,
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Tuesday Talk*: Goodbye, Thomas
John F. Kennedy thought well enough of him to tell a collection of the “best and the brightest”:
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House
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ACLU’s Double Barrel Attack On Free Speech
Its Virginia local proudly announced that it filed an amicus brief in a case involving teachers in Loudoun County.
The ACLU of Virginia filed an amicus brief in the Loudoun County Circuit Court on behalf of ACLU Virginia, ACLU,
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Short Take: Studio 54, Where Are You?
There you were, wearing your tightest Jordache jeans and a flammable Huckapoo shirt, and still you were on line praying the doorman would open the velvet ropes like he did as Halston walked past the bridge and tunnel crowd without
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Is It Charity or Duty?
Assuming we can get past the cognitive dissonance of how the same government that’s so massively incompetent, if not venal, in the performance of functions you don’t like will miraculously perform sufficiently, if not spectacularly, when it comes to the
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Did Portland Go Lawless?
Protests in Portland caused substantial property damage and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. But this time, the Portland police stood down.
A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows,
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Short Take: Must We Take Every Grievance Seriously?
Cathy Young wrote a great post at Arc Digital about the Othello outrage at the University of Michigan. John McWhorter followed it up with a post of his own at the New York Times. Both took the complaint of the
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Can Criminal Defense Lawyers Take Family Leave?
Did you know the Secretary of Transportation, Pete B-something, took family leave after he and his husband adopted twins? Tucker Carlson made a breastfeeding joke, because he’s an ass putting on a show for dopes, but then it’s not as
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A Very FAIR Response
Not that I was familiar with the organization before, and based on its board of advisers, it will no doubt be the target of the usual critics for whom people who are not progressive range from evil scum of
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Short Take: “Paralysis By Analysis” On Biden’s SCOTUS Commission
The Presidential Commission on SCOTUS issued its “discussion materials,” more than 200 pages of incredibly exciting academically moderated words that largely ended up where pretty much everyone expected, whether because the commission was crafted for the purpose of
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