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Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | yesterday
It appears he has given again a few suggestions to Ann Althouse. See "But keep going, Ann. Debunk them all. With facts, not spin." I love this comment "Andrew Sullivan is employed to write for The Atlantic, a publication which was founded by and once published such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and James...
Kicking Ass Ann Arbor (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
What do I want for Christmas? I’m thinking of making my list this year very short, in fact, only one item long. I want a graduated income tax for the state of Michigan, and Mike Bishop is the Grinch that will ruin my Christmas (minus the happy ending with all the Whos singing on the [...]
kewlchops (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Every now and again I fall in love with things, like peas and mint and linguine for Sunday lunch at Zuni or my new 2010 moleskine daybook, or... this book: Reading it (so far) is like a piece of hot toast with lots of butter on it. Alberto Manguel is new to me. I've enjoyed Borges immensely - apparently the two were friends - and have just discovered another South American novelist named César...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The first issue was published 54 years ago today by William F. Buckley. I only discovered it 30 years ago when I came to the USA. Of course in those days it was only available on dead trees. Nowadays it's online and we all take it for granted. From Buckley's Mission Statement in that first issue on November 19th, 1955 : Let's face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW...
Dewey's Treehouse (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
P is for today's schooltime Poem: "The Chambered Nautilus," by Oliver Wendell Holmes . "This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sail the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair...."
Running a hospital (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Rob Velella (the one on the left) wanted to commemorate the 200th birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and so he wrote a one-act play called "At the Saturday Club." The Club, which still exists today, was founded in 1855 and was an informal gathering of the great writers and thinkers of that age. They met at Boston's Parker House for "extravagant meals and even more extravagant conversations."...
Healing Philosophy (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. Rajneesh Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Jewish proverb A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Samuel...
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Michel Felice Corne, The Constitution and the Guerriere Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood, Where [...]
Benning's Writing Pad (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month ..." "Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on November 11 and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning - the "eleventh hour of the...
Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Ronald K. L. Collins, First Amendment Center, has published "Prologue: Justice Holmes - Father of the Modern First Amendment," from The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle & Reader: Selections From the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches & Other Writings By...
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Frederic R. Kellogg, University of Edinburgh Law School, has posted Holmes, Common Law Theory and Judicial Restraint, which originally appeared in John Marshall Law Review 36 (2003): 457. Here is the abstract:Judicial restraint is a subject properly bound with the interpretation, and hence the definition, of law. The nature and contours of what judges interpret dictate what is appropriate for
This14U (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Adams . Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire - William Yeats . The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been - Alan Ashley-Pitt . What is a weed? A weed is a...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Few Supreme Court justices have been more widely praised for the quality of their writing than Progressive hero Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who sat on the Court from 1902 to 1932. Yet as author and arts critic Terry Teachout recently pointed out, while Holmes may be "the only American jurist whose opinions are by way of being great literature," the "beauty of his style sometimes lent...
m-cause (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Shawn Seipler has an inspirational story. A couple of years ago, Shawn was looking for new business opportunities in the “red-hot” [...]
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Prologue: Justice Holmes - Father of the Modern First Amendment is an essay by Ronald K. L. Collins, First Amendment Center. The prologue introduces 'The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle & Reader' - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters & Other Writings by & About Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2010).Collins' abstract...
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