David Luban has a nice takedown of Margolis's report, and Jack Balkin has a more meta post about the whole thing.
Oh, the Luban article is excellent. But I should really read the report first.
Semi-OT: Good legal news from PA:
A Pennsylvania appellate court has rejected a 25-year-old legal precedent and ruled that a parent's homosexual relationship cannot be used against the parent in determining child custody
I don't get the post title. If they were being disbarred, the punishment would be a day late and a dollar short, but since they aren't...?
7: I believe LB was doing a self-critique.
The report's been horrendously delayed, so it's late, and while it seems to slap them on the wrists, from what I've read about it it recommends no actual punishment. A delayed reprimand rather than a speedy disbarment is late and short.
And my post was itself both late and skimpy.
both late and skimpy.
Which is a real good news/bad news situation with your hot girlfriend.
When it's a gimmick, sure, it's ultimately boring, and lots of molecular gastronomy seems to involve way more elaborate and gimmicky contortions than are actually worth the trouble. When people get all hot and bothered over that sort of thing, it's tiresome. But the sheer fact that an item is interesting for the surprise as well as the deliciousness doesn't make it worthless, and the surprise can result in plenty of new opportunities for deliciousness in less theatrical settings.
11: I propose that Yoo and Bybee be thrown into a giant blender, whipped into foam, and served to the American people in martini glasses with a garnish of razor wire. It's really the only way to fully appreciate the full horribleness-ness of their horribleness.
So long as he's served lemon chicken.
rfts was making the eminently sensible suggestion that Yoo be treated to trussed for dinners at El Bulli.
So the only ones punished in any tangible way were Scooter Libby and the 8 enlisted soldiers actually photographed torturing people, right?
Yoo is frustrating, but the Blackwater killers who got off on a technicality associated with immunity granted by a republican have me more angry.
18.1 And the thousands of people languishing in various military prisons . . .
anyone else read it?
This sets a troubling precedent. I don't want to be required to actually know something about the subject matter before I comment.
Here's a Scott Horton piece noting that Bybee, Yoo, and Bradbury were all at the relevant times actively seeking office, and so might plausibly have acted with corrupt motive.
Another Horton piece following up on Luban's Slate article about David Margolis.
This sets a troubling precedent. I don't want to be required to actually know something about the subject matter before I comment.
As far as I can tell from these articles actually knowing about the subject matter before opining on it could be down right dangerous and open you up to ethical misconduct charges. You are much better off spouting off willy nilly with no background knowledge.
I just assumed you wanted him to suffer from a meal that, while technically proficient, was ultimately more about showy presentation and chemistry experiments than a satisfying dinner.
But then, wouldn't we have become the true monsters?
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Yes ari, I am a bad person for not averting my gaze, but:
1) Now there is Amy Bishop the unpublished novelist.
2) The incident continues to be an interesting Rorschach:The novel, a thriller titled "Amazon Fever,'' is peppered with references to Harvard, where Bishop went to graduate school and worked as a researcher, and follows Olivia to Alabama, where she struggles to save a flagging career amid a global pandemic that leaves women unable to bear children. Through it all are Olivia's anxieties about achieving success as a scientist.
In the end this looks like a disturbed person with a history of violence exploding at the workplace when things went badly there. So not really such a unique trajectory.... but being denied tenure when you're in your mid-40s at an out-of-the-way obscure rural campus in the deep South is a catastrophic loss, and people don't understand that," says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Yeah, OK, so Northeastern's not Harvard, but Boston, Mass., motherfucker! Boston, Mass.! Make sure that gets into your fucking fishwrap.
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Well, the system worked, didn't it?
Ms. Kagan gave examples of prohibited conduct. A lawyer would commit a crime, she said, by filing a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a terrorist group. Helping such a group petition international bodies is also a crime, she added.
And what should we expect from the Justice Department of such an administration, such a President? I am surprised Obama didn't confer knighthood upon Yoo and Margolis.
30: I read about that yesterday and it's absolutely shameful. On civil liberties, this administration has been *at least* as bad as the previous one, and usually worse.
On civil liberties, this administration has been *at least* as bad as the previous one, and usually worse
Well, at least Obama hasn't ordered the torture of innocent people for the purpose of extracting false confessions to use in building the case for an illegal war. Yet.
Maybe he just hasn't come up with a good enough illegal war yet.
The Holder v. HLPtranscript is quite good, and I think, fairly accessible even if one hasn't been trained in O'Brien and Brandenburg. One is always left wondering why anyone thinks much of Justice Scalia . . .
33, 34: Gotta save something for the second term.
30 -- I don't know how the Court is going to come out on this, but it's certainly always been the case that the sort of sanctions we have against countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea preclude my entering into contracts with those governments, without getting a license anyway.
38: So that's what this meeting was really about!