Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

DON’T MESS WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE: Tehran may be evacuated as taps run dry due to water crisis.

What plague will strike next? Anything but the frogs. I always thought the plague of frogs was kind of a lame plague. Give me some butter and garlic and it’s not a plague, it’s a feast.

I’VE BEEN WARNING THE GOP ABOUT ITS LACK OF A TURNOUT MACHINE FOR A WHILE. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ONE:

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: “Our Job is to Teach the Children, Not be the Children:” UVA lawprof Xiao Wang exposes immature and unprofessional behavior by his colleagues.

Professor Xiao Wang, director of University of Virginia’s Supreme Court Clinic, litigated the case of Ames v. Ohio Youth Services. The thrust of the case was quite simple, and intuitively appealing: Heterosexual employees alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation have the same burdens as homosexual employees alleging such discrimination. Such symmetry is built into our antidiscrimination laws, which is why the laws ban discrimination based on “race” or “sex” or “sexual orientation” and not “against people of color” or “women” or “people who identify as LQBTQ.” Not surprisingly, the Court reasserted this principle in a unanimous opinion.

While the case was pending, however, Wang and his students were subjected to a campaign of harassment by some of his faculty colleagues and other students. You can watch a video of him recounted what transpired, and inspired the title of this blog post, here.

Good for him for calling them out. With a quibble that law students are not children. They may act like them sometimes, but no more often than a good chunk of the faculty, these days.

SHOWING PROPER RESPECT (CONT’D):

ICYMI: Now out from Kurt Schlichter: A new Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red.

ALEX BERENSON: On the cesspool of elite journalism. “The memoir, American Canto, isn’t good, to say the least. It’s draggy, circuitious, hard to read. It’s received scathing reviews complaining Nuzzi is a bad writer. But Nuzzi isn’t a bad writer. The reason American Canto isn’t good is simpler and sadder: because Nuzzi is a bad person. Why should you care? Because Nuzzi is a bad person in the most elite way possible.”

Which makes her a worse person.

UNEXPECTEDLY!

MATT TAIBBI: Kudos to the New York Times: Credit where credit is due. “Jeffrey Epstein signed a non-prosecution agreement on September 24, 2007, pleading guilty to two charges. The first was for solicitation of a 19-year-old. The second, for “solicitation of minors to engage of prostitution,” involved a 17-year-old. He was never convicted of anything involving a 14-year-old. I wrote to reporter Debra Kamin, who helped restore my faith in journalism today by replying.”

The bar is low now.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

OUT TODAY: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red.