tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56943712011-11-27T18:17:23.299-05:00Another law blogHalle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1092777555180032492004-08-17T17:12:00.002-04:002009-11-28T17:01:22.547-05:00

Resuming Elsewhere Been a while. This blog is going to be revived -- but at a new location. I'm on TypePad now, at plainsman.typepad.com. Future posts will be found there. "Aren't you even going to finish your rundown of the last Federalist Society convention [see infra]? That fragment's been hanging in space for the better part of a year, man!" Nope. Lost the thread. But I'm going

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The Federalist Society Lawyers Convention (III): Day Two Recap [My apologies for not being able to post this installment yesterday. I had a limited posting window of a few hours Saturday morning before checking out of my room, and I couldn't get a working Internet connection. -- P.] Friday morning: A coffee-laden breakfast dispatches the residual head-haziness from last night's fun. Today's

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Semi-Live From the Federalist Society Lawyers Convention (II): Day One recap Hello! Wednesday night I wrote: "I plan to take notes during the day and write up the interesting bits at night." That plan seemed less attractive when I returned to my hotel room at midnight yesterday after conviving at the hotel bar. Instead, I'm up with the dawn today to run down Thursday's opening events. 8:30

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Semi-Live from the Federalist Society Lawyers Convention: prologue I arrived late this afternoon in gray and temperate DC, after an annoying rail schlep from the BWI airport. The Mayflower lobby was not obviously swarming with legal conservatives. Come the evening I strolled down K Street in search a bite to eat. As I don't think I've mentioned before, I spent a summer in Washington during

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1068426493670576862003-11-09T20:08:00.000-05:002003-11-09T20:27:00.220-05:00

Canada Rocks! (Or: I'd Listen to Neko Case Sing Anything) Everybody who cares probably already knows the score, but it must be said: the best record I've bought in the past couple of months is the New Pornographers' righteously catchy debut, Mass Romantic (2000). The follow-up, Electric Version (2003) isn't half-bad either. * * *

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Superlative / comparative The Chiefs are now 9 and 0. Unbelievable. I expect to hear Chiefs-related similes ("I'm blowing up like Dante Hall," "I'll run through your crew like my name was Priest Holmes") crop up in hip-hop singles in due course. This is only fair. * * *

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A Whiff of Nostalgic Futurism I'm back. E-mail access was surprisingly dodgy while I was away, hence no posting. The trip will have to be judged professionally by its fruits, but it seemed reasonably successful. If nothing else, I picked up some spare non-iron dress shirts that will come in handy for my next trip later this week. (Hey, what did you think I wore? An excessive fear of

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1068014097383662262003-11-05T01:34:00.000-05:002003-11-05T12:36:59.130-05:00

Off On A Business Trip Out of town until Sunday night. Not certain whether I'll be able to blog from the hotel, but I'll probably contrive to put up a post or two. Do check out this post by Professor Fox at Philosophenweg on the apparent scarcity of communitarian sentiment in the blogosphere. * * *

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Straight From the Underground: Memphisbowlerpimp Readers of this blog must get disoriented by its sometimes abrupt changes of topic and tone. (Last week, as you'll recall, I encouraged you to eat more eels.) But you might surf over and check out the collected works of this random Amazon.com reviewer I found called "Memphisbowlerpimp." I was searching Amazon for classic rap LPs at lunch

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1067923896593139822003-11-04T00:31:00.000-05:002003-11-05T02:16:30.356-05:00

The Mobile Register on International Law The paper criticizes the Justices' growing infatuation with the "international law" establishment. (Link via Southern Appeal.) Professor Reynolds also comments on the topic. As does Tech Central Station. UPDATE: Edited the post. * * *

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The Blawgosphere and the Political Compass (updated 11/4) Thanks to Professor Solum's tireless labors as a tallier, we now possess a decent sampling of the views of a set of mostly law-related bloggers on the Political Compass. Thirty-five data points -- not bad. Caveat: Some argue that these quizzes have a libertarian bias. This is not wholly implausible, since they've been popularized on

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Judge Richard Arnold Answers 20 Questions A lapse into law blogging. Readers of Sub Judice will recall that I am a fan of Eighth Circuit Senior Judge Richard S. Arnold. I was definitely looking forward to Howard Bashman's "20 Questions" interview today with Judge Arnold, and it did not disappoint. The judge comes off a little terse compared to gregarious past interviewees like Judge Andrew

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Watch This Space for Semi-Live Coverage From the 17th Annual Federalist Society Lawyers Convention The big show is next week. Everybody and his/her chinchilla will be there. I will be staying at the Mayflower for all three nights and providing periodically updated coverage of notable speeches and other happenings. "Wow, Frank Easterbrook is pounding kamikazes at the 1789 bar with Ludacris and

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1067532715304703692003-10-30T11:51:00.000-05:002003-10-30T13:36:48.970-05:00

Speaking of "Authoritarianism" Have you noticed that the New York Times wine panel is really hard-assed? I love it. They don't like anything! Moderate-priced Burgundies; California chardonnays; California syrahs -- they're unafraid to pronounce entire, lucrative wine categories "disappointing." This week they taste a bunch of expensive "Super Tuscans," a globe-hopping category created by

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1067483682461819802003-10-29T22:14:00.000-05:002003-10-29T22:33:56.490-05:00

The Homestar Runner Halloween '03 Toon is Up Here. Not as funny as previous years. Some of the costumes are great, though -- esp. Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and the Poopsmith. And be sure to click on the rightmost candy-corn light in the final scene ... UPDATE: Are the Geto Boys really "old school"? * * *

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Internet Political Quizzes and Slanted Labels Taking a cue from the Prof, I took a couple of those Internet quizzes that purport to situate your views on a continuum. On the Political Compass, I come up almost dead center, with a slight tilt toward economic interventionism and social cohesion. On the World's Smallest Political Quiz, I come up just inside the so-called "Authoritarian" range. I

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1067454127896233412003-10-29T14:02:00.000-05:002003-10-29T14:29:24.693-05:00

Permalinks Updated After my hiatus, the least I can do is clean up the place a little. New permalinks have therefore been added on the left to Professor Bainbridge, who is rapidly ascending into rarefied levels of blogdom, and Gregg Easterbrook, who got royally shafted (see The Ambler). Also, I've fixed a broken link to Ex Parte, the Harvard Law Federalists blog. Also, the Kansas City

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Speaking of Japan Slate ran a cool Tokyo travelogue by Seth Stevenson a couple of weeks ago. I've never been to Japan (it's the foreign place I'd most like to visit) but I did spend six months once in an office where I was the only non-Japanese, and several of Stevenson's observations ring true. Check out the slides as well. I've been interested in Japan ever since my teenage days as an anime

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Eat More Eels It is high time for eels to return to the American culinary mainstream. They are delicious, as was once widely recognized. The Pilgrims loved 'em. "Our bay is full of lobsters all the summer and affordeth variety of other fish; in September we can take a hogshead of eels in a night, with small labor, and can dig them out of their beds all the winter. ... These things I

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Happy 100th, Evelyn Waugh Hello! If nothing else suffices to pull me out of a shamefully long blog hiatus, Waugh will. Yesterday would have been the 100th birthday of the notoriously difficult Brit writer with the exquisite prose. It was a pleasure to watch all the mini-tributes to Waugh spring up from conservative blognauts: everyone from The New Criterion to Steve Sailer to Prof. DeBow at

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1065707902921589722003-10-09T09:58:00.000-04:002003-10-29T10:24:37.630-05:00

[never mind]

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One More From Sir Mix-A-Lot You libertarians out there might be saying now, "Hmm, from your prior post we can see that Sir Mix-A-Lot is sound on the Second Amendment and on tax reform, but what can you tell us about his views on the Fourth Amendment?" I refer you to the first song on his breakthrough Mack Daddy, "One Time's Got No Case." "One time" is slang for police. Over a choice Stevie

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Sir Mix-A-Lot for Libertarian Party Nominee in 2004 [Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics] You all know who Sir Mix-A-Lot is. Some of you think you don't, but you do, because he wrote "Baby Got Back", known in the '90s to a national cohort of junior high kids as "That Big Butt Song." It was vulgar and funny. Mix is from Seattle. His real name is Anthony Ray. He wasn't the one-hit wonder a

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NYT Dining This Week Decent NYT Dining & Wine section this Wednesday. As usual, I agreed with the judgment of the wine panel, which found itself underwhelmed by a slate of California syrahs. Believe it or not, I happened to try a couple different Cali syrahs by the glass with dinner earlier in the week at a local bistro. I found them harmless (not as brutally oaked as some of the panel's

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1064548762315036502003-09-25T23:59:00.000-04:002003-09-26T00:38:49.576-04:00

Productivity Threat Tomorrow my copy of Diablo II should arrive. I know all you hip kids think D2 is, like, so passe now, but I usually make my (rare) software purchases long after the hype subsides. The game was $16. (I eschewed the expansion set that lets you play a Druid or Assassin.) Interestingly, I refused to buy any insidious computer games while I was in private practice and had a

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Guest Blogger Toby Stern's Guide to NYC Steakhouses I [Plainsman] devote regular attention to the New York Times Dining Section because it offers the best weekly food journalism in the country. But I don't live in NYC. I live here, in a middle-sized city with some very nice (and cheap! don't get me started, especially about wine prices) restaurants that I'm unable to blog in any detail

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1064464746076918172003-09-25T00:39:00.000-04:002003-09-26T00:00:03.310-04:00

Getting more play than Rambo To paraphrase EPMD, How Appealing is definitely outta control. Mr. Bashman got lengthy "comments box"-type e-mails yesterday from Miguel Estrada, Ninth Circuit Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, and Alabama Solicitor General Nathan Forrester. Just remarkable. I'm waiting for Chief Justice Rehnquist to drop a line someday: "Hi! Love the blog. By the way, what we were

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A succulent week in the NYT Dining section Ah, that's more like it. All sorts of enjoyable articles in this week's Wednesday diversion. This week's restaurant reviews page is all-French. The principal review is Cafe Des Artistes, which even a bumpkin like me has heard of. I thought William Grimes did a nice job of communicating the vibe of a frumpy yet worthwhile restaurant. (If I were

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1064432271429178252003-09-24T15:37:00.000-04:002003-09-24T22:22:16.920-04:00

I Find That a Nice Big Zinfandel Goes Best With Corporate L&E Sorry folks, it's been a few days. I commend to your attention ProfessorBainbridge.com, the new blog of Prof. Steve Bainbridge of UCLA. It's "[a] corporate law professor's eclectic mix of law, business and economics, current events, and wine." Professor Bainbridge has a great deal of interest to say about corporate law, economics

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1063996496540638602003-09-19T14:34:00.000-04:002003-09-19T18:17:03.350-04:00

An "eat your vegetables" week in the NYT dining section Wednesday is New York Times Dining section day. My first reaction when I looked over the section this week was a sigh, for it featured an unusually non-sybaritic collection of articles. Most of the regular features were devoted to "off the beaten path" topics or cultural reportage, rather than the vivid and literate descriptions of the

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1063734385408302162003-09-16T13:46:00.000-04:002003-09-16T15:29:04.176-04:00

Go Krona! I'm away on business (back Thursday), so I can't post for long, but I do want to congratulate the Swedes for voting down the Euro last Sunday by a 58-42 margin. The AP writer introduces a trickle of spin: the vote is described as a "setback for European integration," instead of, say, "a boost for Swedish sovereignty." The Brits, Swedes and Danes are described as "holdouts" from the

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1063392695296791662003-09-12T14:51:00.000-04:002003-09-13T14:44:45.390-04:00

Cool conference on state courts next Tuesday (This post goes in the "law blogging, but not substantive law blogging" file, for those keeping score at home.) Back in my Sub Judice days I did a little bit of posting about state courts -- in particular, about whether, and how, interpretive doctrines like textualism and originalism should govern decisionmaking by state court judges, who differ from

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1063376686505508212003-09-12T10:24:00.000-04:002003-09-12T11:21:55.570-04:00

Fantastic album: found I've finally managed to track down a used CD copy of The Good Earth, by the Feelies (1986), one of the great out-of-print indie rock albums. * * *

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1063374602046633822003-09-12T09:50:00.000-04:002003-09-12T22:12:28.146-04:00

The Guardian on the Swedish Euro vote Really interesting rundown of the deeper issues behind the Swedes' vote on whether to scrap the krona for the Euro currency. (Link via Andrew Stuttaford on NRO's The Corner.) The vote is set for Sunday, and will go forward as planned despite the terrible murder of Anna Lindh, the country's foreign minister. Lots and lots of Swedes don't like the Euro, or

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1063081199946378252003-09-09T00:19:00.000-04:002003-09-09T03:37:04.206-04:00

Gregg Easterbrook's new blog I'm not a big fan of The New Republic, tending to share Father Neuhaus's view of it as a capable magazine that "has a Christian problem, and, more specifically, a Catholic problem." Better the crunchier liberal Weltanschauungen of a Mother Jones or, for that matter, a Commonweal. But TNR's done something promising: they've given their senior editor Gregg

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1062952325418209782003-09-07T12:32:00.000-04:002003-09-07T13:30:27.210-04:00

Julia Child's critical faculties are fine So I was in the airport seeing off a relative and I impulse-bought a copy of Gourmet magazine. It's OK. I hadn't realized the extent to which it was a "Food Lifestyle" magazine rather than a food magazine, much as the Wine Spectator has more "wine lifestyle" elements (check out this rich dude's mega-cellar in the Caymans! Three-star restaurants in

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1062951087644395472003-09-07T12:11:00.000-04:002003-09-07T13:12:52.580-04:00

"Yeah ... you're pwobably wight" If that last outburst of theorizing wasn't enough for you, I urge you to check out this brief essay on "The Meaning of Homestar Runner", originally posted on the HR forums. Very thoughtful. The stuff on Strong Sad as Alienation and Homsar as The Other is particularly poignant: "Strong Sad and Homsar together represent the apotheosis of meaning in HR. The story

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1062916320336429502003-09-07T02:32:00.000-04:002003-09-07T04:53:11.526-04:00

Going Through a Tight Wind: Punk Rock and the Supernatural Turns out my new city has a splendid record store not far from my house. I paid it a kick-off visit this evening. Foreign DVDs, racks of vinyl, posted notes with inside jokes for the staff: it's all good. Even the posters are impressive, though in the end I decided that a large Misfits or Pussy Galore wall hanging was not exactly

Halle Barrymoorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694371.post-1062905082356535062003-09-06T23:24:00.000-04:002003-09-06T23:24:42.343-04:00

About the Format This Blogger template is provisional. I like the look of it fine, but it's a variant of a red template that tends to cut off the body text by not allowing the reader to scroll down past the end of the side bar. A few experiments with long posts seemed to establish that this template works, but I may be wrong. If so, let me know and I'll make a change. * * *

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Pleased To Meet You And hope you guessed my name. Welcome to the blog. This inaugural post is an introduction to the nature of my game. I'm Plainsman, a lawyer and a native Midwesterner. I currently work for the government in a medium-sized city somewhere in that big swath of continental real estate that the network brass assigned a scarlet hue on the maps of the 2000 election. I moved here

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Another test post * * *

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Test post -- here's some text; and here's a link. Now, will the link work?

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Thank you for your patience. Links are now up. Gala blog launch this weekend! Stay tuned.

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Keep watching this space. * * *

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