This Weekend on Patterico
If you are strictly a weekday reader of this blog, it’s worth your while to scroll down and read some posts from what was a busy weekend. I had a lot of analysis of the Supreme Court’s end of term decisions and the commentary surrounding them. Here are a few of the items you missed if you weren’t reading this weekend:
- I took a bow for predicting how Justice Roberts would characterize the Brown decision in the forced integration cases. Yes, it was obvious — if you listened to the oral arguments, as I did.
- I slapped down Erwin Chemerinsky for defaming Justices Alito and Roberts.
- I took a two-by-four to David Savage twice — once for mischaracterizing Chief Justice Roberts’s plurality opinion in the forced integration cases as a majority opinion, and once for screaming like a frightened woman about the alleged New Conservative Hegemony on the Court.
- I wrote a couple of posts on Hot Air, including one about Stashiu’s opinion on closing down Camp Delta, and one that whack at Rosa Brooks for her praise of illegal immigrants.
Nice couple of days. You and your readers might want to take a look at http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/newspapers/wiener_pals_recall_the_good_old_days_at_the_la_weeklyits_all_jill_stewarts_fault_62080.asp#more
It’s a response to Nation Magazine’s attack on Jill Stewart’s stewardship of the LA Weekly. On the (rare) occasions on which I read Nation, it seems like an anachronistic effort to fight any form of deviation from the party line. But the interesting question to me is, “What party?” It’s not the Democratic Party. It’s as though they are working tirelessly on behalf of a phantom organization out there that refuses to name itself, because if it had a name it would be the Anti-American, Anti-Liberty Party That Systematically Ignores Readily Predictable Unintended Consequences. It’s the AAALPTSIRPUC. I’m pretty sure that the acronym is available for trademark usage.
vcox (065555) — 7/2/2007 @ 5:41 amWell, two out of two is not so bad for an old broad. However, will rectify omission immediately. I want to read the Rosa Parks whack…I also wrote her, but I’m just a old broad.
Sue (bd03d0) — 7/2/2007 @ 6:50 amOn an unrelated subject which you might be interested in: Linda Greenhouse will be on _Fresh Air_ (the pbs talk radio show) today.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 7/2/2007 @ 9:56 amVisiting LA this past weekend, I got to read the paper version of the LAT. How refreshing to glance at the byline of the Supreme Court story, recognize “David Savage,” and think, “Oh, a misplaced Op-Ed that will likely veer Left once past the starting gate.”
That Interblog is burnishing the reputations of some newspaper reporters (e.g. Nicholas Wade of the NYT)… but not all that many of them.
Thanks, as usual, for commentary with links, Patterico.
AMac (c822c9) — 7/3/2007 @ 9:01 amErwin Chemerinsky now unhired at UC Irvine law school. This ought to be quite embarrassing for UC Irvine as they appear to have been so incompetent as to not know his reputation as a partisan.
I am no fan of Chemerinsky but I’m sympathetic on this one and think that UC Irvine law school may not regain the reputation it just lost.
Robin Roberts (6c18fd) — 9/12/2007 @ 9:45 am