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The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Elon Musk Wins Defamation Lawsuit Brought by Someone Musk Allegedly Misidentified in X Post Mar 20, 2026

  From today's Texas Court of Appeals decision in Musk v. Brody, decided by Chief Justice (retired) J. Woodfin Jones, j...

• First Amendment Precludes Title VI Liability for Harsh Anti-Israel Speech at Art Institute of Chicago Mar 20, 2026

  A short excerpt from the long decision in Canel v. Art Institute of Chicago, decided yesterday by Judge Georgia Alexa...

• Delilah and Me Mar 20, 2026

  Back in 2002, I heard a great question, from Betchen and Paul Barber: Who cut off Samson's hair? Of course… The post ...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• Another Day, More Brackets! — See Also Mar 20, 2026

  Which Trump Administration Attorney Most Deserves To Lose Their License?: Vote on the winner (?) of the John Eastman ...

• Trump Judges Are Very Different Than Other Republican-Appointed Judges Mar 20, 2026

  Turns out which Republican president nominates you matters. The post Trump Judges Are Very Different Than Other Repub...

• Hegseth Confirms Potential $200 Billion Request For Iran Operations, But Figure ‘Could Move’ Mar 20, 2026

  ‘Obviously it takes … money to kill bad guys so we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're pro...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• The Pizza Resistance Mar 20, 2026

  Read The Pizza Resistance Customer: "What the f***?! The customer is always right!? You heard of it? I want my pizza ...

• Ginger Licking Good Doesn’t Have The Same Ring To It Mar 20, 2026

  Read Ginger Licking Good Doesn’t Have The Same Ring To It Friend: "There's one thing I'd like to ask about the mockta...

• Internot Yours Mar 20, 2026

  Read Internot Yours Caller: "It is illegal for you to shut down my wifi! You don't own the air!" Me: "Do you have a r...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• My Recollection of Kobe Bryant’s 81 Mar 20, 2026

  Bam Adebayo's 83-point performance on March 10, 2026, prompted me to recall how I learned and shared the news of Kobe...

• Happy Cleaners Cargo Trike in the Rain Mar 20, 2026

  A Happy Cleaners cargo tricycle sighting just off the Third Street Bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn, turns into a short es...

• Jackie Harris’ Fruitmobile Seen at Houston Hobby Mar 18, 2026

  I came across the Fruitmobile, a world-famous art car, while wandering around Houston Hobby Airport. My photographs l...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Gap Week: March 20, 2026 Mar 20, 2026

  Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog p...

• Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad Mar 14, 2026

  This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune....

• Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026 Mar 06, 2026

  Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing t...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Re; Return Old Online Things to your own Site Mar 20, 2026

  I read a good blog post by Lisa Charlotte Muth titled I’m bringing everything back to my website. In the post, she de...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-20-26 Mar 20, 2026

  Another day means more daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Note that the Pook-Emu Bee will take tomorrow off for The Newsletter...

• Jeff Green’s Career-High 43 on 03-18-13 Mar 20, 2026

  Brian Windhorst for ESPN wrote 27 straight wins: The most dominant stretch of LeBron James’ career, revisiting the 27...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• Another ANOTHER New Lick of Paint Mar 20, 2026

  So it turns out I didn't like the mustard yellow and steel blue design that I created a couple weeks ago. It just did...

• Three Men Tried To Steal My Motorbike While I Was On It! Mar 20, 2026

  Spring is in the air here in North Wales, so I decided to take one of my motorbikes to the office yesterday. On the w...

• Fat Boy - Round 2 Mar 16, 2026

  Back in 2024 I went through the process of losing weight, and was fairly successful. I went from ~111kg (244lbs) to ~...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 20 March 2026 Mar 20, 2026

  Dove Grey Afternoon Edition Top Story Bluesky, one-time social network and latterly psych ward for those who can't co...

• Daily News Stuff 19 March 2026 Mar 19, 2026

  Antibipartisanarianism Edtion Top Story A bipartisan gaggle of US senators is looking at blowing up DMCA Section 230,...

• Daily Tech News 18 March 2026 Mar 18, 2026

  Download Some Stuff Edition Top Story Overwhelmingly Negative: Everybody hates DLSS 5. (Ars Technica) Ars Technica ro...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Mister Donut wows matcha lovers in Japan with new Dora Matcha doughnuts Mar 20, 2026

  Like a sweet fusion between doughnuts and dorayaki pancakes, this is an Uji matcha experience you need to try while i...

• Nine amazing off-the-beaten-path cherry blossom spots in Japan for yaezakura and shidarezakura Mar 20, 2026

  Yes, Japan’s most famous sakura spots and species draw big crowds for good reasons, but they’re not all that cherry b...

• Stunning central Japan wisteria festival is like a purple fantasy straight out of a Ghibli movie Mar 20, 2026

  Move over, sakura. Purple is the new pink. The cherry blossom season is poised to start throughout the country, with ...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• The Hospitallers Change Mar 20, 2026

  Founded originally to care for the sick and poor in Jerusalem, there were new statutes for the Hospitallers in March ...

• Roger de Moulins Mar 19, 2026

  Roger de Moulins was not known to history until 1177 when he became Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller. His chief...

• Templars versus Hospitallers Mar 18, 2026

  In the 12th century, while the kingdoms established in the Holy land by Western Europeans were struggling to maintain...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.

• Doctor Who: Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 1 Mar 20, 2026

  The Companion Chronicles concept, which has a companion actor mostly narrating a story audiobook style with another a...

• Doctor Who: The Virgin Decalogs Mar 18, 2026

  So, here we are, having covered the last of the New Adventures and the final Missing Adventures. There’s one last bit...

• Lexxual Debauchery: Season 3 Mar 15, 2026

  After their struggles against His Divine Shadow and Mantrid led to the destruction of the entire Light Universe, the ...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux Mar 20, 2026

  The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

• Vykar is a New Open Source Backup Tool That's Faster Than Borg, Restic, and Kopia Mar 20, 2026

  The BorgBase team has cooked up a new open source backup client written in Rust.

• FOSS Weekly #26.12: GNOME 50 Release, Fedora for Apple, New Ageless Linux, Manjaro Drama and More Mar 19, 2026

  Plenty of things going on in the Linux world.

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Neanderthals Used Birch Tar as an Antibiotic Mar 20, 2026

  An international study led by the University of Cologne has shown that birch tar, a material traditionally associated...

• Timeline of the First Humans in America Is Completely Wrong, According to New Dating of Monte Verde Site Mar 20, 2026

  A new study led by Todd Surovell, an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, together with a team of collaborator...

• The Bothros of Aeolus, a ritual pit on the island of Lipari that reveals the secrets of the cult that united Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily Mar 20, 2026

  A team of archaeologists has managed to reconstruct the details of an ancient cult of the ancestors which, according ...

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Interactive Entertainment Mar 20, 2026

  Sometimes in between writing these entries, a certain set of thoughts will come about. I'll think through the ideas a...

• Water Delivery Mar 18, 2026

  My dreams have been going crazy lately. I find myself in these periods about every few weeks where my dreams will be ...

• Guardian Angel Mar 17, 2026

  Yesterday I got sick again and slept all day. Thankfully, I woke up this morning feeling a bit better, but I still do...

Ploum.net

le blog de Lionel Dricot

• The Social Smolnet Mar 20, 2026

  The Social Smolnet It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another ...

• How I fought my smartphone addiction Mar 13, 2026

  How I fought my smartphone addiction In a poignant Gemini post, Kevin Boone wrote about his anxiety to go out of his ...

• Capitalisme, IA et éducation Feb 21, 2026

  Capitalisme, IA et éducation Extrait de mon journal du 29 janvier, en lisant "Comprendre le pouvoir" de Chomsky. Le c...

xkcd.com

• Star Formation Mar 20, 2026
• Landscape Features Mar 18, 2026
• Rotational Gravity Mar 16, 2026

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

• Putin Furthers Civil Society Facade as Tool of Control Mar 19, 2026

  Richard Arnold

• Telegram Outages Spike in Kremlin’s Push for Digital Control Mar 19, 2026

  Kassie Corelli

• As Putin’s War Comes Home, Russians Ever Less Prepared to Support It Mar 19, 2026

  Paul Goble

BEEW

Banish Expectations Expand Wonder

• Sprezzatura Mar 19, 2026

  Sprezzatura. Say it out loud. Spreh-za-TOO-rah. Let it sit in your mouth for a second. Sounds like something you'd wa...

• Secondhand Minds Mar 17, 2026

  On the theft of original thought and my fury at those who caused it. There are many times throughout the day when I p...

• Because He Was He, and I Was I Mar 11, 2026

  I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...

The Public Domain Review

An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.

• Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History Mar 19, 2026

  In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patie...

• Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909) Mar 11, 2026

  "Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) Mar 05, 2026

  A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

riz#000000me

Personal blog of a Chicago-based writing instructor sharing weeknotes, reading reflections, book recommendations, and musings on internet culture.

• vbr files in apple music Mar 19, 2026

  ancient errors in itunes

• reading list Mar 16, 2026

  what's on my to-read list

• dragon quest iii&i&ii Mar 14, 2026

  an arc is an arc is an arc