On the road linkfest (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Monday, 6 March 2006

On the road linkfest

Since I am off on an interview today, posting may be restricted to this linkfest:

Hei Lun Chan of Begging to Differ dissects the NFL labor dispute to the bare essentials; if only he were as hot as Rachel Nichols, I might never need to watch ESPN again.
Clint Ecker of Ars Technica reviews the Intel Mac mini for those who have not experienced for themselves the bliss that is Core Duo.
The Solomon Amendment case was another 8–0 slam dunk for those right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court, and probably the right decision on precedent (in my mind, it would be hard to strike down the Solomon Amendment but uphold much of the Civil Rights Act of 1964); overall, I tend to agree with Will Baude’s assessment that policymakers (explicitly excluding, being the attitudinalist I am, the Court) on all sides of the issue are wrong. Baude also ponders the possibility that private universities might choose to divest themselves of their law schools to avoid any adverse effect should they chose to continue to bar military recruiters.

That’s all I’ve got for now.

4 comments:

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1. bryan wrote @ Tue, 7 Mar 2006, 6:16 am CST:

Baude also ponders the possibility that private universities might choose to divest themselves of their law schools to avoid any adverse effect should they chose to continue to bar military recruiters.

So there would be fewer lawyers? And this would be a bad thing how?

2. Len Cleavelin wrote @ Tue, 7 Mar 2006, 6:40 pm CST:

Is the Solomon Amendment limited solely to JAG Corps recruiting? Or is it that only law schools have the policy re: discrimination by employers on the basis of sexual preference?

I seem to recall during my time as an undergrad (granted, that was going on to thirty years ago) that recruiters set up tables in the Student Union to talk to undergrad students, too. If that’s still the case, and if its the University as a whole which has the policy against employer discrimination (vice the law schools), mere divestiture of the law schools isn’t going to solve the problem, I’d think.