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Politics
August 29, 2005
Better yet, Scalia can add!
Here's some thousands of pages of documents. Find something newsworthy in 'em. Pity the reporter who has had to slog through stacks of memos by Johnny Roberts, America's newest Supreme Court justice (in waiting). I guess if I had to read through that much interoffice inanity, I, too, would want an article to show for it. But the New York Times's Anne Kornblut must really have been desperate. Her breaking news: Judge Roberts can spell! Even complex words like Namibia! And he has a command of basic grammar!
Law
August 16, 2005
I had Sex with Someone!
If I publish an article that falsely claims that Gelf scribe David Goldenberg enjoys purchasing from vending machines underwear previously worn by Japanese schoolgirls (Snopes), Mr. Goldenberg can sue me for defamation. The gist of his cause of action is that (1) I communicated a harmful statement to a third party; and (2) the statement is untrue. If my claims about Mr. Goldenberg are true he can not sue me for defamation. But can he sue me for something else?
Education
August 1, 2005
America's Energy Problem
The Washington Post (The SAT Grader Next Door) has a brief profile of a retired hi school teecher who now grades SAT essays online. The whole thing is fairly disturbing; the fact that an essay written in 25 minutes and graded in too has any emportance at all is not adrest by the Post, whose toan says: "Look, isn't it nifty that this guy does his work over the internet?" (Dan Verner, the teacher profile, grades the essays by logging into a site on the World Wide Web!!)
Politics
July 26, 2005
I Know It When I See It
That's how Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once defined obscenity. According to an article in the Miami Herald, that's also how the Florida police force decides whether an accused sex offender has violated the clause of his probation that prohibits the possession of "sexually stimulating" material. For Andrew Calderon, that meant a trip to jail for owning a few copies of Maxim.
Media
July 6, 2005
Will Judith Miller Blog From Prison?
New York Times reporter Judith Miller is going to jail after refusing to divulge sources for a story she worked on, but did not publish, about former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Shortly before she was sentenced, Miller helped to launch Judithmiller.org, a website about her work and her current troubles. Gelf spoke with Joshua Tanzer, the site's webmaster, about the website and its future now that its namesake will be incarcerated.
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