Month: April 2009

The FX drama, “Damages,” wrapped up its second season last week.  The series stars actress Glenn Close as litigator Patty Hewes, a lawyer revered by some, reviled by many.  Last…

Updated with Florida and Illinois salaries on 6/25/09 This may be controversial, but I'm going to take the plunge.  As a unrepentant aggregator, I think that one goal of blogging…

Andy Kroll has a very good piece arguing that average families must spend increasingly impossible percentages of their household income if they want to send their kids to college: Simply to ...

I love archives and one of the most amazing things about this digital era is the radically improved accessibility of many archival collections.  I was procrastinating a bit Friday and…

It's good to know that everything can be ranked.  The top 50 "most influential" rabbis are here.  The top 25 "most vibrant" synagogues are here.  Losers will surely lick their…

It's that time of the semester when law professors start thinking about final exams.  If you teach con law, criminal law, or immigration law, today's Houston Chronicle has a topic…

Most of us are familiar with American Gothic (pictured), painted by Grant Wood.  Wood was born in Iowa. Nick Anderson is an editorial cartoonist with the Houston Chronicle.  In today's…

From the point of view of public relations and customer satisfaction, it was a nighmare scenario.  On Wednesday, NYU's Robert Wagner School of Public Service erroneously admitted almost 500 students…

In case you haven't heard, the Iowa Supreme Court held 7-0 this morning that the Iowa state constitution requires that the state allow both straight and gay couples to marry.…