What we read while snacking with Joey Chestnut…
- Matt Taibbi’s frightening profile of Michele Bachmann, who’s doing pretty well in the Iowa polls.
- Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s untimely demise.
- Is Roger Federer’s run as a great player officially over? That seems to the be the feeling following his surprising loss at Wimbledon. It was just two years ago, though, that Tim was wondering if he’d cemented his status as the GOAT.
- There seem to be a few people trying to defend Michael Bay these days, particularly in this GQ oral history, but a few people who have seen the latest Transformers know better.
- The Sixth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the health care mandate, and Jeff Sutton became the first Republican-appointed judge to uphold the mandate in a uniquely and incredibly well-written opinion. Orin Kerr asks what conservative intermediate-court judges are to do with liberal precedents. Meanwhile, the excellent (and new) Just Enrichment blog offers some doctrinal and non-doctrinal analysis of the case.
- We imagine this would be even funnier if we’d seen Game of Thrones.
- An interesting dialogue about the state of plagiarism.
