Where's the closest public parking to that section of the fair site?

Fort Kid or the lot beside the KMA would be my guess.

"Glenn Reynolds Blogs on Your Dime!"

Isn't it interesting that apparently Reynolds's job requires so little work that he can spend so much time blogging and involving himself in so many other activities OUTSIDE the classroom?

I mean since he's such a consistent critic of all those "government employees who don't actually do any work," isn't he really that concept's poster child?

The next time UT is cutting the budget maybe Dr. Reynolds will advocate that his own work load, what there is of it, be given to another law professor, and the university can save money by eliminating his position.

I'm sure you're right.

Personally, I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror if I took a salary from the state and then complained about the government...all the time, but that's just me.

If you want a few laughs you should look up Dr. Reynolds's fantasy piece in the WSJ. I would link to it, but why do him a favor?

In the piece he's got a few memorable quotes, the funniest of which try to paint these spectacles as "grass roots movements" that he's sure will lead to another Republican Revolution:

Though critics will probably try to write the tea parties off as partisan publicity stunts, they're really a post-partisan expression of outrage.

Of course. The next question is "outrage" from whom?

What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before. General disgust has drawn a lot of people off the sidelines and into the political arena, and they are already planning for political action after today.
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Yeah, all the national polls are wrong! All those Independents leaning to the left? HA! They lied! They're leaning far right!

And lastly, I guess Reynolds, in an attempt to throw some reality in makes this read-between-the-lines comment:

So, Newt's not going to get all those names on those petitions and web site sign up lists to use for his own presidential ambitions? This is ALL grass roots, just like all those grass roots gatherings talked about in Thomas Frank's The Wrecking Crew ?

I think that this stuff is particularly sad because someone like Reynolds could start proposing intellectual solutions to the problems this country is facing. Instead it's more of the same Sarah Palin "Soccer Mom" and Joe the Plumber superficial silliness that got the Republican Party in the mess it's in that Reynolds keeps plugging. Same old, same old.

Glenn Reynolds Puts the InstaCurse on the Teabagging Movement

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How many times can one person be wrong?

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."