The Faculty Lounge

For those of you planning a trip soon, you can find an airline-by-airline guide to food service - what you'll get free, and what you won't - here.  US Airways…

It's hardly law news, but news it is.  Michael Chabon, the ridiculously talented author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Wonder Boys, and Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and the…

I don't have a good excuse for my radio silence of late.  I could say that I was enjoying the remarkably good SEALS conference in Florida.  (Hats off to Russ…

I recently received an email notice from university security about three strong armed robberies that occurred in the neighborhood.  It explained that: The perpetrator has been described as a heavyset…

We all know that the rise in gas prices is pushing some  drivers out of their cars and on to public transit.  And those of us who ride buses and…

Hillary Clinton has begun her 2012 Senate campaign!  According to this report from the ever-shrinking LA Times, Clinton is hustling to avoid having to return money to individuals who already…

With relatively little fanfare (though a story in today's NYT), Massachusetts is quickly moving to repeal its 1913 anti-miscegenation defense law - a statute that made it difficult for interracial…

Here's an update on a dispute I've followed for a while.  As I noted previously, we're in the midst of a knock-down fight between Boeing (represented substantially by the lefty…

Yesterday I stopped by a local Wendy's for lunch.  In an effort to reduce the caloric implications of this catastrophic visit, and to save a few sheckels, I opted entirely…

I was reading through the Philadelphia Bar Reporter today and discovered that one of Pennsylvania's new Supreme Court Justices - Seamus McCaffery - is pushing to create a statewide veterans…