Gosh, look at the calendar
Your Humble Blogger was aware that he had been slacking, but was startled to discover that there were only two entries in the last two weeks. Sorry about that. I have, y’all will be overjoyed to hear, been working just…
States shall not outlaw homosexuality
No link to the full text yet, but it appears that the Supreme Court has decided Lawrence v. Texas, and that they struck down the law banning sodomy. Whoo hoo! Take that, Mr. not-yet-a-Justice Ashcroft! Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Supreme Court stuff
Your Humble Blogger has been chiming in to an interesting discussion on Lorem Ipsum about the Supreme Court CIPA case, and took a look at yesterday’s slip opinions. There were 5 cases, and 24 opinions filed, including decisions, concurring opinions,…
Liberality Gap
Does anybody remember the year 2002? The reason I ask is that, as I’m looking at the Democratic Presidential Candidates, I looked at the Liberal/Conservative indices from the Congressional Observer for Senators, and for some reason all four of the…
Still working
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Kind of fun to read an Economist article from July 1991, which said among other things, “They (American voters) choose Republicans for president and Democrats for congressmen.” The article, called “The headless party that haunts the Hill,” was about how,…
Cities and Poverty
William Julius Wilson writes in this morning Times about—you guessed it—poverty. It turns out that Our Only President has put forward policies that are—you guessed it again—bad for poor people. OK, this is not much of a surprise. On the…
End of an Era.
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Well, and Tony Blair has abolished the office of the Lord Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor, and this will seem very odd to those of us in the US, was, first of all, appointed by the Prime Minister, and sat in…
Conservative Tenet # 15
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While Your Humble Blogger is puttering around with a way to discuss the Democratic Presidential candidates, there’s no reason to stop our march through the Conservative Tenets. Multi-tasking, you know. 15. The mystery, grandeur, and tragedy of history, man’s surest…
” … I’ve been covering the class war ever since.”
Your Humble Blogger is working on gathering information and his own thoughts on the Democratic candidates for President, so the pickings here at this Tohu Bohu may be a trifle slim for a while. In the meantime, here’s Bill Moyers’…
A Call to Minds
Yesterday, Your Humble Blogger came across a speech by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois), and I really enjoyed it. In particular, I thought she did a great update of Jesse Jackson’s Common Ground Address at the Democratic National Convention in 1988…