Bad
- Society acts as if All Force Is Reasonable Force
- Northern District of California Permits Defendants to Interrogate Title IX Plaintiff About Whether She Consented to Teacher’s Sexual Behavior When She Was 15
- Senate GOP: for tax cuts for the rich, not for much else. They're for deficit reduction in principle, but not in practice if at the expense of tax cuts for their friends. And they live in economic bizzaro land where they deny that their tax cuts cost anything. Paul Krugman calls this delusional. There's a chart. And even the Heritage Foundation agrees: Bush tax cuts permanently lowered revenue. (PS. If Bush's tax cuts created jobs, where are they?)
- Regular exercise isn't enough for men who stare at screens
- FOMC expects slower growth, higher unemployment and less inflation
- European Digital Rights (EDRi) has released the digital comic Under Surveillance (via boingboing)
- Rand Paul, far far out there.
- For this unemployed lawyer, finding job interviews (including for non-law jobs) is like seeking unicorns
Good
- 11-Year-Old Grows Tons of Veggies for the Homeless
- A new poll of Cuban American attitudes conducted by the University of Miami shows that two-thirds of that community now supports lifting the travel ban to Cuba
- The Daily Business Review has a short write-up of my chair (subscribers only, like this is such valuable news….)
- Paul Ohm has a cool-looking article in the Harvard Law Review, The Right to Delete.
- Geek humor: “It is believed that written warnings to users against these dangerous configurations are both prudent and ineffective.” (Also, “A fool and their data are soon parted.”)
- Justice is done, or so argues Rumpole
- Congressman Joe Sestak, the guy who defeated Senator Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary, started out behind Republican Pat Toomey, but now they are tied in the latest poll. Details at Kos. Send money now.
Good and Bad
There is a new dubstep mix of the War of the Worlds but it is slashdotted.
Not webby, but bad
- Scott Maddox is spamming me.
Does being spammed by a candidate for Commissioner of Consumer Services qualify as irony?
First off, that revenue chart does not actually show what that semi-literate blogger says it does. Just look at at.
Second, before you take his word about what the Heritage Center says about the Bush cuts and their overall effect on revenue, you might want to actually LOOK at what the Heritage Center says about the Bush cuts. Hint: Tax cuts aren’t the only thing that matters, nor are they even a major player in this mess. It’s sort of like thinking that LP gas price increases are what’s driving your home budget issues.
Here’s something relatively current for you to ignore:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/06/The-Three-Biggest-Myths-About-Tax-Cuts-and-the-Budget-Deficit
Note: before you take your ball home and get all huffy again, I’m not saying anything at all about what I believe, I’m only pointing out that the Heritage Center does not say what they are interpreted as saying. (and you might also note that the blogger himself says he is not making an argument about tax cuts.)
that’s great that a child can learn to be so generous at that young of an age. It’s shouldn’t be as amazing as it is, but in this age of paris hiltons and jersey shore reading about a youth who actually cares is refreshing. Hopefully he’ll grow up and not turn out to be a jack ass who runs his mouth at a presidential candidate speech: http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2010/07/15/dont-tase-me-bro-seriously-i-might-die/
I’ve always been fond of RFC 1925.