Month: August 2008

Once upon a time, anyone who wanted to watch TV during a big political speech was (almost) forced to watch the speech.  Why?  Because when the big three networks -…

Doug Berman blogged the other day about this NY Times article describing agitated Pontiac, Illinois prison employees seeking to save their jobs by saving their prisons.  The gesture was certainly…

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today about Tom Armstrong, a Lancaster County man - and former Republican state legislator - who is putting up three individuals convicted of various sex offenses…

Compared to most of the law prof blogs, we're still a baby.  But after almost seven fun months, we've hit the 100,000 visitor mark.  How can we not be excited…

Through  the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, we are preparing to send a large cohort of our Drexel Law students into the Philadelphia public schools.  2L's and 3L's will teach high…

It's taking an awful long time for Obama to select his vice-presidential running mate.  I'm sure it must be a tough choice - just when you things are going swimmingly…

Framing matters, especially when it comes to news.  And today we witnessed a very interesting framing strategy on the education front.  A national organization called Fight Crime: Invest in Kids ...

In an effort to bolster morale, or perhaps simply provide useful information to share with passengers irate at the new $2 soda on US Airways, a recent airline employee newsletter…

Most college and graduate students have to write research papers.  It comes with the territory.  But in the past few years, my sense - based on both first person experience…

As Dan Rodriguez points out at Co-op and Prawfs, and Patrick O'Donnell adds here - all in comments (pretty please, don't let this be bullying...) - Papa Doug Manchester (his…