*But not really.Michael Gerson is very worried about vulgarity in politics:In 2006, after a long monologue about a dog and its vomit, Franken impersonated the deceased Sen. Strom Thurmond as saying: “Yeah, I screwed a woman who was vomiting once.” He once proposed a television sketch about a female CBS reporter being drugged and raped. [...]

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I don’t mean to be glib, but why am I supposed to be concerned by the increase in gas prices? McCain wants to get rid of the federal tax on gas for the summer, to keep the price down—does he not understand how economics works? All that does is shift the cost from gas buyers [...]

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FundRace is kind of amazing and kind of disturbing:Want to know if a celebrity is playing both sides of the fence? Whether that new guy you’re seeing is actually a Republican or just dresses like one?FundRace makes it easy to search by name or address to see which presidential candidates your friends, family, co-workers, and [...]

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Man, last week’s episode of This American Life (aka, Radio Programs White People Like) is hard to listen to. I don’t have much to say about it, except that it’s a pretty harsh indictment of the current administration. Some of the behavior described in the (one-sided) reporting—like refusing citizenship to widows of Americans whose husbands [...]

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The Times has a truly astonishing story about Giuliani’s political “ruthlessness” that is a must read. Mr. Giuliani paid careful attention to the art of political payback. When former Mayors Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins spoke publicly of Mr. Giuliani’s foibles, mayoral aides removed their official portraits from the ceremonial Blue Room at [...]

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Humbling thoughts from a BU Law alumna:I’m on a one-woman mission to talk people out of law school. Lots of people go to law school as a default. They don’t know what else to do, like I did. It seems like a good idea. People say a law degree will always be worth something even [...]

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I’m on vacation in beautiful, sunny, marginally above freezing Florida right now, so I’m not going to write much, but I wanted to say a little something about Iowa.

I know it’s a big deal that Obama won, and that Hilary took third, and that Huckabee won, and that Giuliani finished well behind Ron! Paul!, but [...]

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This article about law students’ choice between public service and private practice made me feel very sad. It’s about a student at Georgetown Law, who had to decide between a high-paid job at a Chicago law firm and the pursuit of a job in the public interest sector.

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