Posts by Dodd Harris

Dodd Harris
About Dodd Harris
Dodd, who used to run a blog named ipse dixit, is an attorney, a veteran of the United States Navy, and a fairly good poker player. He contributed over 650 pieces to OTB between May 2007 and September 2013. Follow him on Twitter @Amuk3.

ThinkProgress Flogs Drunken Horse

Whether due to innumeracy or intentional deceitfulness, ThinkProgress has the JobsOhio bill totally wrong.

NFL, Players Agree On New CBA

With the Draft only 27 days away, multiple lawsuits pending, and the lockout only in force for a few weeks, the NFL announced that an agreement on a new CBA had been reached with players.

“Extremism” In Defense Of Bloated Budgets Is Apparently No Vice

Nor, it would seem, are really tired clichés.

NFL Players Invoke Nuclear Option

No matter how the owners and players resolve their squabble, the fans are likely to get screwed.

Obama: Oil Companies To Blame For Lack Of Drilling. No, Really

It’s understandable that the President feels defensive about gas prices, but that’s no excuse for trying to sell the public a bill of goods.

Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Prevent Abortions

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

Corporations Don’t Have Privacy Rights

Sometimes the most sensible result can be the hardest to reach. This isn’t one of those times.

Google Addresses SEO Gaming

Google erects some much-needed defenses in the optimization arms race.

Slow News Day

The cost of doing nothing The cost of doing nothing

Less Than Zero

The Social Security “trust fund” may actually be worse than worthless.

Noted Historian Rick Santorum Retcons The Crusades

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum thinks we’ve been too hard on the Crusaders.

Real Doctors, Fake Notes

Either Andrew Breitbart controls the entire media complex or Crooks & Liars jumped the gun. “Figure it out.”

No, No-One Is Trying To “Redefine” Rape

No, the legislation does not in any way “suggest that some kind of rape that would be okay.”

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Shortest Month of the Millenium

Dana Milbank’s “No Palin Month” lasted almost 15 hours 45 minutes.

The Debt Ceiling Will Be Raised — Get Used To It

Demanding that the new GOP House hold the line at the current number is satisfying rhetorically, but all-but-impossible politically.

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Take The Palin Pledge

For perhaps the first time ever, I find myself in total and complete agreement with Dana Milbank. Take the pledge: Give Palin a rest.

How Not To Improve The Discourse

Yesterday, Eric Fuller, one of the victims of last week’s shooting in Tuscon, blamed Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle for the tragedy. Today he was arrested for making a death threat to a local Tea Party leader.

In (Partial) Defense of Ezra Klein

I don’t like it when things my allies say are misquoted and attacked; it’s no better when my allies do it.

Hope and Change!

Perversion Inversion

Mr. Yglesias has it exactly backwards.

TRON: Legacy — Flynn Abides

TRON: Legacy is an almost perfect sequel.

A Cuban Hospital Is No Place To Be Sick

Castro banned “Sicko” for fear that ordinary Cubans would be up in arms seeing facilities that are not available to the vast majority of them.

Judicial Activism: It’s Not Just A River In Egypt

Judicial activism doesn’t mean “reaching a decision I don’t like.”

Headline of the Year

37?!?

Idiotic Idea of the Day

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants to install devices in cars to disable cell phones.

Earmark Reform Isn’t Just Symbolism

Eliminating earmarks is good policy and good politics.

Lies, Damned Lies, & Rachel Maddow

Recklessness.

Dismiss The Tea Party At Your Peril

“Those who doubt that the failings of higher education in America have political consequences need only reflect on the quality of progressive commentary on the tea party movement.”

Barack Potter & the Chamber of Secrets

Desperate Democrats demonize donors, facts be damned.

Citizens United, More Myth Than Legend

Citizens United really wasn’t that big a deal.

Reductio ad Wickard

A federal judge has ruled that ObamaCare’s individual mandate is Constitutional and thus brings to fruition the inevitable, ridiculous result of Wickard v. Filburn.

Flying Cars!

In news that will no doubt please the estimable Glenn Reynolds, DARPA has taken a big step toward the long-awaited flying car: Flying Humvees

Alan Grayson Digs Hole Even Deeper

Seems Grayson’s getting desperate.

Republicans Need To Ask For A Mandate

If Republicans stick to their current (apparent) game plan and just run on not being Democrats, they will have neither a mandate to repeal Obamacare, et al, nor the will.

18-Game NFL Schedule Moves Into The Red Zone

A shorter preseason and more meaningful games may come to fruition as soon as 2012.

Banning Burqas Is A Bad Idea

The world would undoubtedly be a better place if Islamic fundamentalism reached even 19th century Western notions of individualism and gender equality. But cultures evolve over decades, and bans on their practices are not useful means of promoting positive change within them.