Episode 6: Productive Thoughtlessness

Joe, Christian, loyal dog Darcy, a fire, some coffee, and melting snow. We kick back and talk about stuff that has been on our minds. This leads to three very different topics. First: we disagree whether the Supreme Court should strike down the President’s recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. Text vs. history vs. practice. Second: The Atlanta snowstorm traffic fiasco, in which we discuss mountaineering and computer programming. Third: What makes Dahlia Lithwick so great? Darcy makes a few appearances.
This show’s links:
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu)
SCOTUSblog page (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/national-labor-relations-board-v-noel-canning/) for NLRB v. Noel Canning
Jay Bookman, Really, by now metro Atlanta ought to know better (http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2014/jan/30/really-now-metro-atlanta-ought-know-better/)
Object-oriented programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming)
Matthew Yglesias, Atlanta Is a Regional Transportation Planning Disaster (http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/01/29/atlanta_traffic_nightmare_terrible_regional_planning.html)
Tracy Thompson, What Does Racism Have to Do With Gridlock? (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/01/atlanta_s_snow_fiasco_the_real_problem_in_the_south_isn_t_weather_it_s_history.html)
Dahlia Lithwick, Bright Lights, Fake Kiddies (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/2001/10/bright_lights_fake_kiddies.html)

Joe, Christian, loyal dog Darcy, a fire, some coffee, and melting snow. We kick back and talk about stuff that has been on our minds. This leads to three very different topics. First: we disagree whether the Supreme Court should strike down the President’s recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. Text vs. history vs. practice. Second: The Atlanta snowstorm traffic fiasco, in which we discuss mountaineering and computer programming. Third: What makes Dahlia Lithwick so great? Darcy makes a few appearances.

This show’s links:

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute
SCOTUSblog page for NLRB v. Noel Canning
Jay Bookman, Really, by now metro Atlanta ought to know better
Object-oriented programming
Matthew Yglesias, Atlanta Is a Regional Transportation Planning Disaster
Tracy Thompson, What Does Racism Have to Do With Gridlock?
Dahlia Lithwick, Bright Lights, Fake Kiddies