Via TBogg, Jeffrey Toobin describes John Roberts in terms that would surely have struck fear into the hearts of the founding fathers contemplating the judiciary: In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the…
I was watching CNN’s American Morning yesterday, and hosts/reporters John Roberts, Alina Cho and Erica Hill were discussing the ridiculous claim by Ty toys that its Malia and Sasha dolls don’t have anything to do with the Obama children. It’s a coincidence, says the company and that the names for…
Steven Pinker should be given a weekly column in the New York Times to write about the foibles of language pedants and why they’re usually wrong, for two major reasons: 1) He’s good at it. 2) It would occupy his time so that he’d have less of it for pushing…