Then he took the thread, gave it to his disciples and said, 'Take this, all of you, and post.'

I've been trying to get some kind of handle on the OPR report, which recommends Yoo be referred to the state bar for professional misconduct. And the Margolis memo, released with it as a package, declining to do anything but shake his finger at the author of DOJ's most notorious finding ever.

So much better than the other threads.

I was glancing through Joke Line's Time editorial...it's quick and one-sided, but it offers an interesting perspective on some of Obama's policy directions after the SOTU.

The "Hillary Movie" finally gets its day.

SCOTUS rules today in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporate identity in itself is not sufficient to allow Congress to infringe corporate "speech" under the Constitution.

The monster 187-page decision overrules Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and parts of McConnell v. FEC, and strikes down 2 U.S.C. Section 441b which

Wallsé
344 West 11th Street
NY, NY 10014
212-352-2300
$$$

http://www.wallserestaurant.com/

Austrian food is a new one on me, and while in the case of Wallsé the prices & ambience are way snootier than what I normally tolerate (Celebrity Chef, hip location, Upper East Side obsequiousness transplanted to the West Village), we were invited by a high-flying lawyer cousin of mine who was visiting town, and I thought I'd share for uniqueness' sake.

In a nutshell: extremely well prepared recipes that I didn't like.

This one from James Joyner (note: the page loads incredibly slowly for me).

THE LIBERTY TREE

Two hundred and twenty-two years ago, Thomas Jefferson penned a disturbingly ambiguous reaction to the events of Shay's Rebellion. “The tree of liberty," he wrote, "must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Because a closed thread is no good to anybody.