Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:49AM It is possible that in the future, a dialogue of equals on equal grounds might occur between feminists and...uh...advocates of masculinity.
2 Comments | tagged Wilkerson Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 7:59PM The Supreme Court decided yesterday that "You have the right to talk to an attorney before answering any of our questions" is sufficient warning when coupled, a few sentences later, with "You can use any of these rights at any time during this interview."
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 7:48AM On my way to school this morning, a motorcyclist—wearing fatigues, combat boots, a blaze orange vest, and…a helmet—pulled out of an apartment complex on a 1300 cc bullet bike.
Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 1:09PM I was listening to a lecture by economist Timothy Taylor. Right at the end of the lecture, he proposed that in much of the world, the US included, has social policy and the economy backward.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:12PM Physical pain should become a relevant topic outside the realm of bioethics (including medications and pain relief for cancer and other illnesses). Public policy ideas and initiatives are too often measured in terms of dollars because it is so easy to measure welfare in dollars. However, willingness-to-pay tracks ability to pay. Thus, policy--even policy for the less fortunate--often overlooks the most physically painful problems.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 4:31PM William and Mary is in a transitional stage, with questions flying about how it will be both a liberal arts college and a research university at the same time. In the mix, the definition of a graduate student might change...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 5:16PM The NY Times reports that one of the nastiest men on the planet, Teodoro Eduardo Garcia Simental, was just detained in southern Baja California. He headed a drug cartel in Tijuana and was known to boil his enemies in a caustic solution called pozole (pozole is also a Mexican stew usually made with hominy). But this news might not be as good as it sounds, according to some.
Friday, January 8, 2010 at 8:33AM Eric Posner argues here that the civil liberties threatened by the Bush administration are still being threatened by the Obama administration--indeed, that very little has changed in this arena. Posner argues that the recent expansion of profiling in airport security is along these lines and just goes to show that politicians of all ideologies are willing to do what is expedient in light of threats...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 9:02AM USA Today has an article this morning on the Democrats' avoidance of a conference committee by carrying out intra-party negotiations (to be added to existing bills by amendment) rather than inter-house negotiations on the health care bill...
Friday, January 1, 2010 at 10:19AM Chief Justice John Roberts recently released statistics on the federal court system, and the numbers show it's not a good time to be a poor migrant unable to get papers...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 3:42PM Paul Krugman, something of a revolutionary economic and political commentator, has called for the end of the 60-vote requirement on killing filibusters. He thinks that the Senate moves too slowly because minorities can slow down processes. I disagree with him, and think that there is safety in slowness.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 11:27AM According to Richard Epstein, one of the most renowned legal scholars of our time, the Reid bill is unconstitutional...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10:22AM Should we keep illegal drugs illegal and legal drugs legal, or mix things up a bit?
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:23AM Immigration enforcement has turned away from deportation and toward the federal criminal justice system: under federal programs, supported by both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, people seeking a better life through hard work are being imprisoned in a private-public prison partnership that lines the pockets of prison corporations and keeps local governments afloat...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 9:40AM My friend and I walked past a soup kitchen in DC the other day, where dozens of people were enjoying a steaming meal on the cold sidewalk. This friend had purchased a new suit coat from Wal-Mart late the previous night because he had forgotten his in Williamsburg and we needed to be dressed up. Needless to say, he didn't find the fit appealing, and as we got the the corner with the soup kitchen in plain sight, he took off the jacket and hung it on a fence across the street...
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 8:07PM NPR, along with innumerable other news sources, has painstakingly reported that Chelsea Clinton is getting married. For some reason this is all over the news--even the sources that I thought were serious about what they report...
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 8:15AM Janet Napolitano helped "screen" passengers at an airport over the holiday. This video shows her with her rubber gloves on, doing the apparently unneeded job of pushing bins toward the a conveyer belt. Management by walking around is probably impossible at an organization the size of DHS. Assuming that's true, what was Napolitano doing?
Post a Comment | tagged Wilkerson Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:41AM The New York Times has an article today that describes how the infant mortality rate among African Americans, although on average more than twice that of white Americans, has dropped precipitously in one Wisconsin county. No great advances in medical care or technology can explain the improvement, so health officials have decided that the cause is lower premature birth rates due to better mental, social, and physical health among mothers...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 8:46AM Looking at the few comments on this story about a man executed by electrocution in Virginia last week, it got me pondering about why we love the death penalty so much here...