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16 Feb 2021, 4:49 am
Here is Part One, in which Paul reviews three books with differing points of view: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells; Apocolypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, by Michael Schellenberger; and False Alarm, How Climate Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, by Bjorn Lomborg. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 1:57 am
Contents include:Garrett Wallace Brown, The constitutionalization of what? [read post]
10 May 2011, 2:29 pm
I read Consider the Lobster (here) reandomly, and had never heard of David Foster Wallace. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 5:29 am
In the piece, I develop a nine-part taxonomy of Supreme Court footnotes and demonstrate, once and for all, that unlike the late, great David Foster Wallace, Justice Ginsburg never uses her footnotes to demonstrate the fractured nature of reality in her work. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 7:37 am
Q: Why is Wallace the odd one out? [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 6:13 am
Philosopher Alex Byrne kindly shared these thoughts (in response to yesterday's post, including my suggestion that he share the referee reports): On to the possibility of sharing the comments on the first draft of my book, I do not think... [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 11:42 am
In David Foster Wallace’s report on the Adult Video News Awards in Consider the Lobster, he argues that porn feels mechanical and lifeless because of the performers’ faces, which appear bored but actually show “the self locked away someplace far behind the eyes. [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 7:54 am
Clifford Wallace Honored for Advancing Rule of LawJudge J. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 5:09 am
I don't have time for this.I do have time to write out that I remember when David Foster Wallace observed the foolishness of press releases that announce that a press release announces something.* That is, it's silly to have an announcement phrased as if it's pointing to something else, when it is the very thing it is announcing. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 7:10 am
Here's a good post by Matthew Salzwedel at Lawyerist.com: "Beware of False Writing Snoots," which begins with a quote from David Foster Wallace-- A SNOOT can be defined as somebody who knows what dysphemism means and doesn’t mind letting you know it. . . . [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 5:06 pm
New York Magazine – David Wallace-Wells: “It is, I promise, worse than you think. [read post]
6 Dec 2019, 4:05 am
In its Oct. 28 letter, FFRF said in part:It is our understanding the Cameron High School's head football coach, Jeff Wallace, and assistant football coach, David Stucky, have been holding religious "chapel" services for players before and after football games where coaches pray with players and read and discuss bible verses. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 4:35 pm
The perfect game for Wallace. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 11:50 am
The Pale King (2011) (CD, unabridged) by David Foster Wallace.21. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 11:40 am
George Wallace would have been an even better namesake, but Wallace's infamous stand in the schoolhouse door did not come until a decade after Lincoln Chafee was born.So now Lincoln Chafee wants to keep a murderer out of the hands of the federal government because that government wants to enforce a law that Chafee happens to disagree with, the law providing for capital punishment for certain federal offenses resulting in death.Sheri Qualters has this story in the NLJ on… [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 6:56 pm
Kottke resurfaces the senior thesis of the later David Foster Wallace:It offered a solution in how to deal with semantics and physical modalities concerning Aristotle's sea battle. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 9:02 am
See you back here at HealthBlawg next Monday for the World Health Day climate change edition of Blawg Review. -- David Harlow [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 8:26 am
"Writes Gary Shteyngart, in "Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever/Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas" (The Atlantic).Shteyngart is well aware that David Foster Wallace already wrote “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” — AKA "Shipping Out" — and much as I'd rather read a Gary Shteyngart novel than a David Foster Wallace novel, he has no hope of besting… [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 12:04 pm
Wallace Tashima) , be sure to pick up Supreme Ambitions! [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 9:48 pm
I suppose he shares David Foster Wallace's view of cruising (""A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again") except that he has kept his humor intact. [read post]
