Krankheit: The Way It Was
Jul 19The main thing I’ll miss the late Walter Cronkite for is his charming yearly New Year’s concert broadcasts from Vienna. Still, when I heard of Cronkite’s death it was the following two anecdotes that came to mind: Once when he was asked how he’d like to die, creepy old man Cronkite said “I’d like to [...]
Professional Courtesy
Jul 19Bill Anderson on how and why a rapist cop was tried in federal rather than state court.
Go Ape
Jul 19Everyone knows what the “Tarzan yell” sounds like in the version popularised by Johnny Weissmuller (and unlike most of his successors he actually makes it sound scary, especially if you’re not expecting it): But what did Edgar Rice Burroughs intend it to sound like? That’s much harder to say. Burroughs simply described it as the [...]
All Your Book Are Belong to Amazon
Jul 18If you’ve bought an e-book from Amazon, you probably thought it was now yours. Well, okay – not quite. You knew you couldn’t distribute it to other people, thanks to IP laws. But you probably thought you could at least keep it for your own use. Guess again. If – irony alert – you’re a [...]
Inquiring Minds Wanna Know
Jul 15I just heard Douglas Rushkoff on Colbert talking about his new book. I don’t know anything about Rushkoff, but what he said sounded LL-compatible, and a websearch revealed this quote: Most people seem to think having written a book as stridently anti-corporate as mine qualifies me as a lefty. While I might be left-leaning, I [...]
Judgment Day
Jul 15Louis Seidman vs. Matthew Franck on Sotomayor. See also John Hasnas on judicial interpretation.
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