Interview on The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization on National Review Online

I take a backseat to no one in the gloom-and-doom department, but The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization may be going too far:

Supreme Court reports/retorts

Jonathan Adler has a little dose of reality for us, asking Is This Still a “Conservative Court”?

music to my ears

Illinoisans may have a governor with dim respect for the state constitution (but, hey, why should the states be more constitutional than the nation?) and less concern for blatant corruption, but at least it’s got some mayors who don’t think it’s worth fighting The Supremes. Sorry, that would be the Supreme Court. Ahem. […]

for your consideration

Without further comment:

(Power Line: Major E. has a few words on Rep. Delahunt)
Ref: Power Line’s take on the background to the Delahunt story.

someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo

Todd Zywicki points us to a Dr. Seuss-inspired set of posts on academic wish-fulfillment fantasies. There’s some pretty good stuff, here, both in terms of diagnosis of current problems and aspirations for those of us engaged in the culture of academia. One that leaps out to me is Zywicki’s concern with “corporatization”:
Much of […]

because stirring the pot is fun

Responding to the ongoing lionization of Margaret Sanger by the organization she founded to carry out her preferred policies, we get the following excerpt from Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg on NRO:
Sanger [ . . . ] brilliantly used the language of liberation to convince women they weren’t going along with a collectivist scheme but […]

an encouraging day

Justice Kennedy is still not exempt from a flogging (saith The Jonah, “Today, that despot has a name. It’s Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy rules — thanks to his status as the court’s swing vote — as the true King of America.”), but all in all, it was a good day for those of us who’d […]

where was this when I was in high school?

This is so freakin’ AWESOME I can hardly contain myself: ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

forehead, right hand, whatever

In case it’s blowing by you, the IRS now wants to know what you spend as you spend it. Figure in a few years cash will be a “loophole” that needs closing? Maybe that’s paranoid. Or maybe not: after all, Life take Visa (and other abominations).
Recommended by the Bush administration, payment-card […]

Andrew C. McCarthy on Boumediene v. Bush on National Review Online

More on Boumediene from Andrew C. McCarthy.