q: can you impersonate a horse?
a: nay
Text: When thinking about constitutional law topics, it is important not to lose track of the fact that it is all nonsense. The phrase "take care" in the constitution does not actually imply anything one way or another about for-cause removal protections for the NLRB ALJs. In a well-functioning system, judges would recognize this fact and leave lawmaking to the legislature, but we have a system where judicial supremacy combines with constitutional vagueness to effectively give judges discretionary and perpetual veto rights over all legislative and executive actions. Judges naturally use these discretionary veto rights in a way that generally aligns with their political preferences and thus the three Republican judges read the phrase "take care" to generate their preferred outcome — hindering the administrative state and labor law — while the one Democratic judge reads the phrase "take care" to generate their preferred, opposite outcome.
I think I'd disagree as much as I'd agree with #KarthikSankaran's hard-to-summarize views on globalism, but unsurprisingly he is full of insight and wit. https://sankaran.substack.com/p/restoring-balance-or-maybe-not-to
driving should be a vacation activity, like water-skiing.
how long were they deployed?
kind of amazing no one took a commercial flight carrying their pager, then got randomly swabbed for explosives and like, wtf?
(very lucky no one was on a commercial flight but still in radio range.)
not quite yet, but soon:
if you don’t know the author, there is no author.
call it the brown new deal. https://x.com/jstein_wapo/status/1836115725276283077
raise the SALT cap. don’t eliminate it.
winning isn’t everything. it’s nothing at all.
This post fails to replicate.
"The public sector can stop private risk aversion from disciplining necessary investments if it tries… a more democratically representative, state-directed financial system would channel investment instead based on what risks *not investing* poses to people’s material security." #AdvaitArun https://advaitarun.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/the-short-end-of-the-liquidity-stick/
[new draft post] Abundance is overcapacity https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/abundance-is-overcapacity/index.html
There are good-government cases against citizens' initiatives.
Representatives are supposed to be informed experts who do our policy work for us. Ballot proposals create immovable superlaw — often astroturfed by corporate interests, and voted on by rationally ignorant citizens. They foreclose important options of the legislature.
Yet the past few years have turned me into a citizens' initiative superfan. Legislatures are now gerrymandered, captured. We need the check.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html
Pagers aren't usually bombs. So was this a supply chain attack? Were small bombs embedded in the pagers Hezbollah purchased, at the manufacturer or en route to end customers?
when you find takes about your writing, both left and right, all over the internet, it just means you’ve gone chiral.
“Alternatively, we could nationalize Musk’s holdings and run national security from the government, in conjunction with private business, but not handing them the keys.” #ErikLoomis https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-inevitable-wage-of-neoliberalism
the Obama administration embraced Google as young, emancipatory, an opportunity. politicians of every stripe now treat Google as old, oppressive, an obscenity.
relatable, i suppose. even if well deserved.
A lesson of Uber is once they buy your vote, they can tax the bribe right back from you.
the cliché is that California is the poster child for bad governance in blue states, even though New York exists.
My housing policy in a sentence: Pursue greenfield development at very high densities, with the care and intelligence that desirable high density demands.