Month: November 2008

We're very pleased to welcome Daniel Sokol as a guest here at the Lounge.  Danny is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.  He's a…

We've heard a lot about moral hazard recently.  The coarse account is that we should worry about bailing out risk-takers lest they come to rely on bailouts in their future…

Until recently, I was entirely unaware of the existence of Warsaw Ghetto, a novel by Mary Berg.  Berg was raised in Poland and arrived in New York in March 1944…

There's a new insurance product on the market and no, you needn't worry that it will single-handedly consume your 403(b)  (or 401(k) for those of you employed by entitities that…

Jasmyne A. Cannick has an interesting and provocative op-ed in the LA Times today entitled No-on-8's White Bias.  Arguing from the perspective of an African-American lesbian, Cannick slams the No-on-8…

I was taking a look at a comprehensive list of Presidential election results today and noted a variety of details about the less publicized aspects of the results.  Among the…

Nate Silver, the creator of Fivethirtyeight.com (of spoof of which was the basis of my Blawg Review #184 yesterday) has created some must-read materials for anyone planning on watching election…

VOTE. Go to Starbucks, tell them you voted, collect your tall coffee. Mostly also though, VOTE.

__________ OneEightyFour     Blawg Review Done Right             Monday, November 3, 2008 The Obama Effect Continues Around law schools across the nation, there has been a detectable…