“Yes, I’ve lowered my strike zone,” Lofton said in an interview last week. “I didn’t want to hurt myself, but more importantly, I don’t want to hurt my team with a penalty. All I remember was I wanted to make a good, clean tackle; I didn’t want to go for the kill shot. I just wanted to hit him in the legs, chest or stomach. That’s what I was aiming for.”
I think this is what Malcolm Gladwell would call blink.
This is interesting. I need to think it through. I really don’t know what I think about capital punishment. I go back and forth and back and forth.
I’ve blogged before that banning considerations of employment status for hiring decisions would be a terrible decision. One necessary implication to that is it would create lots of work for lawyers!
I like being in the same sentence as Eugene Volokh and William Blackstone.
I like that approach to decision-writing. Kagan’s opinions’ are very easy to read, and explain complicated ideas in a simple fashion.