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		<title>Great Bookstores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a list of favorite bookstores. But my list is of the best bookstores. What are those, you say? Let&#8217;s start with a theory. We always need a theory. Mine is that, in the age of Amazon, there is no reason to visit a bookstore unless the bookseller can pick out interesting books one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/10/08/great-bookstores/</link>
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		<title>Manichean Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In idle moments I am reading Henry Cecil, roughly Jane Austen for English barristers. Cecil is not very well known here, but I enjoy him. Nothing deep, simply a deeply honest and not unwitty fellow. No villains either, but rather the run-of-the mill larceny of one&#8217;s clients and the laziness of opposing counsel. The most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/07/31/manichean-nation/</link>
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		<title>Speculators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is taking aim at speculation.  We have criminalized many forms of economic misbehavior, but there is still a lacuna for speculation, which needs to be closed. A helpful start is provided by Article 154 of the Criminal Code of the U.S.S.R. which defined speculation as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/07/30/speculators/</link>
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		<title>Nanobots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend writes about his interest in nanotechnology, and as he is an expert in the law of war wonders whether nanotech weapons might contravene treaties concerning poison gas and the like. An interesting question. From a scientific perspective, there is little difference in kind between bacteriological warfare and the microscopic nanobots of science fiction that swarm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/07/29/nanobots/</link>
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		<title>The WaPo&#8217;s investigative journalists hit a home run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post nailed Gerald Walpin this morning, a bumbling bureacrat who was fired by the President for his incompetence at a 2009 meeting, and who sought to cover up his tracks by investigating an Obama supporter in 2008. This sort of thing ought to be criminal. Probably won&#8217;t happen, but we may take some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/07/01/the-wapos-investigative-journalists-hit-a-home-run/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s not get excited about nuclear attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So North Korea threatens to lob a fast one over Hawaii on July 4. I trust we won&#8217;t overreact. Prudence dictates a mesured response, one expressing disapproval, to be sure. However, we should be careful not to provoke North Korea and jeopardize the all-important peace process. It is true that the President lived in Hawaii [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/06/30/lets-not-get-excited-about-nuclear-attacks/</link>
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		<title>Setting Emily Dickinson to Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poems never belong to one unless they are memorized, and spoken aloud.  And they are best memorized when they are sung. That&#8217;s why Emily Dicksinson is best appreciated when sung to a catchy tune, such as the Yellow Rose of Texas. Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/05/03/setting-emily-dickinson-to-music/</link>
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		<title>Travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do travel books, indeed travel itself, exert such a strong fascination. A natural curiosity about other people is part of it. So too, for those not wholly satisfied with their lives, is the escapist belief that we shall be happier elsewhere if we can leave our present lives behind. Such people are always disappointed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/04/11/travel-3/</link>
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		<title>Holidays in Hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am planning a trip to Israel (my first) and naturally am wondering how to pencil in a side trip to Gaza. Turns out that&#8217;s harder than you might think. The Lonely Planet particularly recommends the beaches, but the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s web site is most unhelpful. You&#8217;d almost think that they dont want any tourists. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/04/06/holidays-in-hell/</link>
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		<title>Titles of Nobility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After arriving in the US, I was delighted to learn that the Constitution had a &#8220;titles of nobility&#8221; clause. Before I could apply for a title, however, I was saddened to learn that the clause prevented the federal government from granting a title to anyone. That leaves the states free to do so, it would seem. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/04/03/titles-of-nobility/</link>
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		<title>Solving the GM Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Administration has taken a lot of unfair heat for its takeover of GM. People have wondered how it is that Obama knows how to design a car. As if that&#8217;s so very hard. As it happens, I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about car designs while I was a child, and even produced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/04/01/solving-the-gm-problem/</link>
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		<title>How To Write a Novel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing easier. There are, after all, only two stories. A Stranger Comes to Town: The Iliad. A Man Goes on a Voyage: The Odyssey. Some say that there is a third story: A boy meets a girl. But that is usually subsumed under the above two stories. Or else it is quite another genre, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/28/how-to-write-a-novel/</link>
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		<title>La nouvelle vague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We celebrate this year the fiftieth anniversary of the French New Wave, with the release of Truffaut&#8217;s Les quatre cent coups in 1959. That&#8217;s how I count things in any event. 1959 was also the year of Resnais&#8217; Hirsohima mon amour, Godard&#8217;s A bout de souffle and Chabrol&#8217;s Les cousins, but for me it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/25/la-nouvelle-vague/</link>
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		<title>Denmark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have begun watching Danish films, the hook being the scores by Johan Soderqvist. For their earnest, humorless moralizing, their determined effort to exclude any possibility of joy from life, they surpass even Canadian films. Here&#8217;s a review of Festen (1998) from IMDB: I have seen this film more than I&#8217;ve bothered to keep track [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/24/denmark/</link>
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		<title>How to Write Satire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes thought that satire is no longer possible, as reality has outstripped it. There is nothing left to mock. But there always is something, and nothing is easier to write than satire. Merely find a bad idea, and take it to another level. &#8220;We take Gay Pride Month very seriously indeed, here at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/23/how-to-write-satire/</link>
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		<title>Lincoln-Darwin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been putting together a program on Lincoln an Darwin, the hook being the fact that they were born within a few hours of each other. Happily Poe was born a few weeks before, so I didn&#8217;t have to worry about him. Lincoln and Darwin shared several personal traits. Both were subject to bouts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/22/lincoln-darwin/</link>
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		<title>American Laughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Other countries, other laughter. American laughter emphasizes the social bond between joke-teller and listener more than it does the sense of superiority to the butt. Not that I find this in any way attractive, as it expresses an excessive concern about fitting in, about communicating subservience to the joke-teller. Judges know this. When appointed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/21/american-laughter/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All Right When We Do It, vol ccccxxxviii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to see Joe (&#8220;the Plumber&#8221;) Wurzelbacher last night, and recalled his effrontery in questioning Barak Obama. What was especially galling was that he had once had a tax lien registered against him, as we discovered through the good offices of the Ohio tax department. The point is that a person with a questionable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/20/its-all-right-when-we-do-it-vol-ccccxxxviii/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All Right When We Do It, vol. cccxxxvii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 7, 2008, Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (&#8220;CREW&#8221;), reported on Huffington Post that CREW had filed complaints against Bush DOJ staffers for politicizing the Justice Deparment by firing liberal U.S. District Attorneys. So here is the same Melanie Sloan in today&#8217;s Washington Post. &#8220;They can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/13/its-all-right-when-we-domit-vol-cccxxxvii/</link>
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		<title>Springtime for Hitler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 10 am it&#8217;s already over 70 degrees. The seasons have changed. The crocuses are out and the daffodils will soon follow. Spring has arrived, and with it a spate of news stories about Hitler. I don&#8217;t try to explain this. I simply note a curious fact of modern journalism. Michael Dirda reviews Hitler&#8217;s personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/08/springtime-for-hitler/</link>
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		<title>Museums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Milwaukee a few days back I visited the splendid Milwaukee Art Museum, housed in the striking Quadracci wing designed by Santiago Calatrava. The museum reinforced my belief that it&#8217;s not enough to have money&#8211;you must have money at the right time. Having money in the 1970s resulted in ink blob modernism and brutalist concrete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/06/museums/</link>
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		<title>Worst Unmade Films</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rendition II. If they don&#8217;t make it, the audiences will have won&#8230; The Virtue of Selfishness. Alan Greenspan reads from Atlas Shrugged, leaving out the quite incidental plot. Siddhartha, with Sean Penn. The Helen Thomas Story, with Barbra Streisand Blago: The Movie, starring himself. It&#8217;s only a matter of time&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/04/worst-unmade-films/</link>
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		<title>Best Unmade Films</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Trial of Socrates The Master of Ballantrae (it&#8217;s been done before, but a great story) The Pre-raphaelite Tragedy: John and Effie take a Scottish holiday with John Millais R. v. Somerset. Before Wilberforce there was Blackstone and Lord Mansfield. On emancipation, the common lawyers got there first. Dread Scott in England in 1772. &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/03/best-unmade-films/</link>
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		<title>Travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Off to Milwaukee and Chicago for several days]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/01/travel-2/</link>
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		<title>Best Unwitten Books IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Intellectual History of Law and Economics would study one of the most important development of the last 50 years, a movement first stigmatized and then welcomed as a crucial tool in legal analysis. The book would trace the now-familiar roots of law-and-economics from Bentham and Holmes to Coase, Manne and Posner, and then show how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buckleysmix.com/2009/03/01/best-unwitten-books-iii/</link>
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