Biden’s Print Gaffes Almost As Fun As His Verbal Ones

By Anthony Bialy

First, let’s acknowledge the obvious milestone: Joe Biden is the first person to ever submit a New York Times column written in crayon. Aw, I’m just teasing our Senate’s tiebreaker, whose miscues and odd takes on life make him as loveable as a sitcom neighbor. While he may come [...]

Empathy Revisited

A friend recently shared with me this blog post at The New York Times, entitled “Empathy and the Law”. Considering that this is a topic that I find insatiably interesting, I read with the appropriate voracious interest. In it, Stanley Fish writes:
“An Obama judge will not ask, ‘Does the ruling I’m about to make fit [...]

Women In Black

By S. Williams
We all have heard of the Men in Black, so how about let’s look at the Women in Black. No, I don’t mean alien invaders who show up after a close encounter of the something kind, or spy types, I mean women lawyers who wear the black robes of a jurist.
Let’s look at [...]

We Behave Even When We (Tea) Party

By Anthony Bialy
Maybe I should forward my pictures from Buffalo’s Independence Day Tea Party to the Department of Homeland Security. It wouldn’t be to help them save time when compiling Janet Napolitano’s Personal Enemies List: it’s more of a preemptive move against those who brand us as radicals for thinking the government shouldn’t be buying lots of stuff. If they’re still fretting about the seething rage among righties, we may as well make the case that attendees are as typical as zealots get.