white shoe: In its early days, the adjective was used in an envious, resentful way by those with less-privileged backgrounds; now it is either a dispassionate description of elitism or a passionate derogation of old-fogeyism. If you lose … [Read more...]
Archives for March 11, 2015
We Should Oppose Abolition of the Leap Second
Cross-posted from Letters Blogatory Readers, I am going to subject you today to an editorial on a topic that periodically gets me worked up even though it has nothing to do with private international law: the proposed abolition of the … [Read more...]
At Today’s House Session: More of Robert (DeLeo)’s Rules of Order
In our last episode on the parliamentary wrangling between the chambers of the Massachusetts Legislature, House Speaker Robert DeLeo was insisting that under the Joint House-Senate rules, the House was in charge of deciding if and when any … [Read more...]