Monthly Archives: April 2009

Jay Severin is wrong even when he’s right

Jay spent the 4:00 hour today talking about the possible demise of the Boston Globe. Jay actually managed to state a few things correctly, such as:

The Globe is a business just like any other business. The fact that it is a newspaper doesn’t give it an excuse to keep operating indefinitely while losing money.
The Globe [...]

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Jay Severin doesn’t understand hypotheticals

Jay was discussing torture yesterday. He’s for it, of course. He trotted out one of his favorite hypothetical situations, which he attributes to Alan Dershowitz:
A child is locked up somewhere with only an hour’s worth of air remaining and you have in custody the guy who put the kid there. Do you torture the guy [...]

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