Exhausted Sigh

I hope the Volokh Conspiracy can get all of its linguistic ignorance out in one burst of infuriating posts, so that I can go back to reading it without being angry at Eugene.

Fingers crossed that today is the last day of retardation!

Epic Fail

Steven Pinker destroys Malcolm Gladwell.

Everyone's favorite part seems to be this:

An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. But Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring. He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “sagittal plane” and “power law” and quotes an expert speaking about an “igon value” (that’s eigenvalue, a basic concept in linear algebra).

Poor Malcolm.

Zzz

:wub:

JUSTICE BREYER: So you are going to answer this question yes. You know, I have a great, wonderful, really original method of teaching antitrust law, and it kept 80 percent of the students awake. They learned things --(Laughter.) JUSTICE BREYER: It was fabulous. And I could probably have reduced it to a set of steps and other teachers could have followed it. That you are going to say is patentable, too?

:wub:

Why Your Math Tutor is Asian

Could that be it?

If only there were some way we could know for sure...

Holy Hilarious

HAHAHAHA!

Awesome! Made my day.

Timely!

xkcd discovers form.

Perhaps by 3609 he'll be debating nominalism.

Hope

Could New Jersey be a real state after all? Can we accept them into the Union? Time will tell, I suppose, but this little gesture is nice to see. Because, man, just like I was contemplating giving California back to Mexico, I was seriously thinking we might want the UK to look into taking New Jersey back into the fold.

Well, try to keep up the non-Communist behavior, NJ!

Oh Nancy Boooooooy

Wow Tyler Cowen is a coward.

SIGH

I managed to debate whether "during good behaviour" means "life tenure" without even having access to Westlaw!

Woulda helped, of course... :/

What

Weird question - why is Brian Leiter always obsessed with the latest hysterical disease scare?

A couple years ago, he was in a panic because of bird flu.

Just weird. Weird dude.

PSA

News segments produced and aired on local Fox affiliates != Fox News content

Happy to help, entire Internet. Please learn what stuff is (and what it is not).

Enough

Let's celebrate Retarded Uniform Football League!

Yay!

Dear Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

You know what's an odd thing to require for a position that you advertise as "entry level"?

Five years of experience.

Learn what words mean, idiots.

Things

I have passed the bar.

I also had to return my laptop to its original configuration due to ads on the Angry Video Game Nerd's website (boo James). This has resulted in my having lost a rather long reading list, and also having lost track of how far I was in my ChessBase tactics training CDs. Otherwise, things are pretty cool.

So, sup.

Observation

So few people believe in Darwin!

Utter Lamesaucery

From Avicenna to Kathryn Jean Lopez.

That's the course my reading took this morning, and the stark contrast has me wishing National Review would fire her so I could enjoy The Corner again. Ever.