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Saturday, April 05, 2008 - Posts

  • Blogged To Death?


    The New York Times warns that blogging and other home-office work may be hazardous to your health : A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical Read More...
  • Fair Surfing


    Last Thursday, the 9th Circuit sitting en banc handed down an 8-3 opinion that will make Internet service providers think twice about what information they will require their consumers to divulge as a condition of service. In Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com Read More...
  • Ackerman's Rush to Judgment, Part 2


    To follow up my first post on Bruce Ackerman's and Oona Hathaway's op-ed , I'd also note that he and his co-author presume that Section 2(a)(2), authorizing military force to "enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Read More...
  • Ackerman's Rush to Judgment


    Too often, people caught up in heated political debates assert that disfavored policies are not merely disfavored but illegal . Of course, the debate over the war in Iraq has been no exception to this sorry habit, as the Bush administration's critics Read More...
  • 3rd Inning, Convictions Poetry Slam


    With the White Sox on a three-game win streak and tied for first in their division, seems as good a time as any to play inning No. 3 of Convictions Poetry Slam . Today's Poetry Month nominee represents the most straightforward of the Slam's categories: Read More...
  • Simply Mistaken?


    Marty says I am " simply mistaken " to argue that there is considerable space between the lines set by the Army Field Manual and the legal lines imposed by various international obligations of the United States. I don't think I'm mistaken—certainly not Read More...
  • Actually, the Answer is Rather Easy


    In his latest column , Ben alleges that although we can all agree that the Yoo memo, and the 2002-04 torture regime it engendered and immunized, were way out of bounds and that the subsequent national settlement about the rules for military interrogation Read More...
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