"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

Justice Scalia is out and about, antagonizing — antoninonizing — students, this time at Princeton, with "a form of argument that I tho...

Is Posner wrong about the value of letting swing state voters determine who will be President?

Jaltcoh thinks so , and I push back in the comments.

"Why are people so much smarter at making personal decisions than deciding how to vote?"

Jaltcoh points to Bryan Caplan's discussion of self-correction, which keeps us from dumb decisionmaking in our personal affairs, but: ...

Did you watch the big debate tonight?

You know: the Gary Johnson vs. Jill Stein debate. Of course, I didn't. I was at the Bob Dylan concert. But my son John watched and even ...

"People keep talking about the role of government in helping people.... but a lot of the credit for helping people recover from the storm should go to businesses."

"It's all too easy to implicitly exclude businesses from our mental category of those who help people ." (Why? Because they...

"We're so used to seeing people act under a system of government rules that it's easy to assume that without the rules..."

"... everything would descend into chaos. But perhaps free people are generally capable of acting decently on their own. Of course, tha...

Jacques Barzun has died... at the age of 104.

Here's the NYT obit for the grand historian/culture critic. Maybe you read his marvelous "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Wes...

"Do you think the campaigns made an agreement that the candidates would have the exact same interaction at the beginning and end of each debate?"

"They always pat each other on the side of the arm while laughing, as if one of them had said something funny in the previous split-sec...

"My daughter has repeatedly brought home books from the school library that I have a problem with. I'm a feminist and I'm anti-censorship. I'm lost."

So wrote a woman at Ask Metafilter: Yesterday, for the THIRD time, LittleTaff brought home a fairy tale... this time Rapunzel. Objectified w...

A debate-inspired hypothetical.

"Say you're a police investigator, and you find a dead body with no clear cause of death." It's a high-profile case, and t...

"Why is this so inspirational?"

It's the slinky on a treadmill . Via Jaltcoh, who warms you up for the epic slinky trek with cats on a treadmill and amazing box on a tr...

"People like Obama, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and Tony Blair can talk you into anything."

"I sort of prefer the square, stilted politicians like Romney, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore. " To me, they seem more ...

"Would all jurors with last names beginning with the letters A through Z please turn in your forms?"

"Great moments in verbosity."

"[M]ost voters' knowledge of economics is so shallow that not only is Mitt Romney attacked for being successful in business..."

"... but Romney doesn't even seem able to defend himself." Can Mitt educate us? This seems related to my earlier post today , ...

"[T]he Beastie Boys were an incredibly energetic band that brought joy to a lot of people."

"This is a real loss to music," says Jaltcoh (my son) , with quotes from obits and videos of songs. Here's the 2009 announceme...

"President Obama is increasingly taking the unusual route of bragging about how he killed a man."

"That's how I might expect a very far-left fringe candidate to describe our successful mission to kill the head of al Qaeda."

"The part I struggle with is how you undo two years worth of implementation..."

"It would leave tremendous uncertainty about what is the direction we’re going in and that uncertainty would obviously affect the patie...

"8% Rate St. Patrick’s Day As An Important Holiday."

Says Rasmussen. Chez Meadhouse, we rate St. Patrick's Day as in important birth day. Happy birthday, John.

Teaching kids to read using nonfiction works better.

Aha! Back in '07, I got all sorts of criticism for advocating teaching reading with nonfiction books — science, history, etc. — and now...

"When many different remedies are proposed for a disease, that means the disease is incurable."

A quote from the translation of "The Cherry Orchard" that is playing in NYC right now. Another quote: "You haven't had ti...