Paris Hilton sent back to jail. ADDED: Some description from the Daily News: Dressed in a gray sweatshirt over slacks, her blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, and wearing no makeup, the spoiled 26-year-old bawled throughout the…
Is this ad offensively homophobic? The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Human Rights Campaign complained and got Masterfoods to withdraw it (after it played during the Super Bowl). I wonder if non-activist gay…
David Lat gets antsy when an interview with Justice Breyer is insufficiently confessional. Why can't he be more like Justice Scalia (or Judge Posner or Judge Kozinski)? Is there some reason the conservative judicial stars ar…
Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: Mr. Barrett’s critics argue that academic freedom has limits and should not be invoked to justify the dissemination of lies and fantasies. Mr. Bar…
Said the Rev. Tony Campolo , the liberal Baptist minister (who was once an advisor to President Clinton). Commenting on the Spiritual Activism Conference, he was trying to explain why the religionists on his side aren't as e…
People keep emailing me the link to this NPR report on a speech that Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown the other day. I assumed I would blog about this speech yesterday after some of my students brought it up. So let m…
She was visiting the set of "Galli Galli Sim Sim," the Indian "Sesame Street": At the show's set -- designed to look like a middle-class Indian neighborhood -- Mrs. Bush and Indian social activist Nafisa …
I'm back from Milwaukee. I got there on time, despite some bad traffic and the fact that the ramp listed on my Mapquest instructions was closed and I didn't have street map in the car. Travel tip : don't do that. Her…
The Supreme Court is back from a long break today, with Samuel Alito on the bench for the first time. There's a new opinion , in the hallucinogenic tea case: Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Jus…
But now, says psychologist Jeffrey Zeig, it's just not the same . The "cool logic of science" threatens to unseat the "spirit of humanistic activism." [Hunter "Patch" Adams] called for a "la…
Just reported: The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include "intelligent design," the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intellige…
Schwarzenegger denies clemency. Ah, but he's co-written children's books denouncing gang violence: [D]espite his anti-gang activism, Williams has consistently refused to take part in a debriefing with authorities to provi…
I wasn't really properly simulblogging the Convention last night, and I'm told that I had my priorities straight . Yikes! Going over to Vodkapundit for that last link, I saw this new poll information . Wow! That's dis…
Making the same point, less enigmatically. Someone asked me to restate that first post today and make it clearer, so I'm going to try to put it as plainly as I can. First, eventually the constitutional amendment will be def…
The arrival of a new set of arguments about gay marriage . President Bush is asking Congress to go forward with a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. What should we make of this? How upset should those who accept or …