Monday, May 30, 2011

"Look, I am a career criminal, but I've only been convicted of one felony. I'm not a drug addict like [Halko]."

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Best character attack ever.
Saturday, May 28, 2011

The US Postal Service is a dinosaur.

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Is it on the verge of extinction? Surely not.  But it is on the brink of bankruptcy, as described in this must-read article.  The article...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

"if incentives don't matter in individual cases, they can't matter in the aggregate"

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So says Mr. Gillette , in critiquing Andrew Leonard's critique of Tyler Cowen's blog post about that French dude who allegedly rap...
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"I always wonder how the 'true economist' should react."

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So muses Tyler Cowen , about t hat French dude  -- who allegedly raped a hotel maid -- as Mr. Gillette points out .  Mr. Gillette really sho...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Sometimes we just don't understand the incentive.

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As you know, Dominique Strauss- Kahn , the head of the International Monetary Fund , has been accused of sexual assault and is currently be...

Bad weekend

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For those of us who root for the Minnesota Twins, it was a bad weekend. In addition to getting stomped by the Toronto Blue Jays, it was ann...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Gayer than a what?

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As we have noted before, judges say some weird things when they sentence people to jail. Waupaca County Circuit Court Judge Phillip Kirk ma...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

The boney's hoagie is no more.

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While jogging this morning, I ran past one of our favorite lunch places when we were in law school. I am sad to report that Bullwinkle'...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

How many traitors have served on the Supreme Court?

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As I am sure you know, this year marks the start of the Civil War's sesquicentennial. As part of the celebration, the New York Times ha...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Evidence that the Supreme Court needs to hear more cases.

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Back in 2009, the New York Times published a story about how the Supreme Court hears significantly fewer cases than it did in the 1970s and...
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