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How Congress can — and must — fix the Supreme Court Congress has authority to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 that says that the appellate jurisdiction of the court shall be subject to...
Newsletter: Fragile Masculinity (selected recent posts)
The Chinese says shìzǐmǐ 柿子米 ("persimmon rice"). That didn't seem to match anything else on the menu. It didn't take me long to notice, however, that the Japanese word for "oyster rice", right below the Chinese, is kaki han かき飯. That is...
You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court ...to paraphrase former justice Potter Stewart, you know the corruption when you see it. And we see the out-of-control corruption in the increasing willingness and brazenness...
Fun...fun little Saturday. Charlotte and Tabitha were out all day. I made scones and took photos of butterflies.43 words · 4 more images
My dear reader, and one day, I hope, to call each other friends—welcome to the little corner I call my home. It’s not much, it’s not grandiose, it may not even be comfortable... [ Continue reading... ]
I celebrated my birthday this week. My birthday itself was Zoom heavy but we did get to enjoy a meal together as a family. Overall the week has been gloriously sunny, not too hot and that’s made it really hard not to be generally...
There was a proverb not so legibly tattooed on the back of a woman, but a couple of ChiLings worked it out, got a better picture, and gave the translation. Carl Masthay, with the assistance of John Carlson and Harold Campbell. Selected...
JA Westenberg: What I want from the people who run companies is much smaller than passion: I want the habit of using the product on weekends. If you run a publisher you should be reading novels (other people’s, ideally) by choice on a...
I missed my run yesterday due to paving. Yes, paving. So I set out early this morning, hoping to beat both the crowds and the heat. I did beat the latter, but not so much the former. It was especially clogged up near the dam, but the...
We're an angry lot these days
D. Griffin Jones on the reports that Apple may have “given up” on the Vision Pro: After two years to see how things have shaken out, maybe the more apt comparison is to the Apple Newton. The Newton was the early, expensive tech demo that...
Rands (Michael Lopp) has put together a great guide of mess that USB-C has created. This is probably a good one to bookmark for future reference: The Lie: Every USB-C cable and port looks identical, so they must all do the same thing....