Admin/Politics: Blood From a Stone
Courtesy of the good and benevolent Mr. Neal Pollack, today is Appropriate Michael Savage's Name For Your Own Purposes day. It's a shame I won't be able to blog more, but as you can see, I'm going to try to use the unsavory MSNBC bigot's name whenever possible. Oliver would positively flip over my two-second solution above, but Oliver's driving cross-country with his girl Friday, and I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to launch cruise missiles into my summer plans by announcing a retirement.
Oh, that reminds me. Today, the Supreme Court will probably announce their decision in the Texas "homosexual conduct" law challenge (look for an overturn, but on equal protection grounds, thus preserving the despicable sodomy laws in Virginia and Alabama, natch), as well as a decision in Nike v. Kaske. Nike will determine if a corporation can lie in an advertisement and have that speech be protected by the First Amendment.
But the real hullaballoo today will come if one or more members of the Court decides it's time to hang up the robe and head out to the ranch. You wonder what Rehnquist would be like to live with if he weren't a judge. Would his wife ask him a question, and then have to wait 7 months for an answer? Would he insist on delivering his responses typed on little 4 x 6 booklets, astoundingly 34 pages long? Boggles the mind.
The divine Ms. O'Connor is also a potential retiree. She just about torpedoed her chances of taking over Rehnquist's chief justice chair when she wrote that beautiful decision in the affirmative action case. It makes me think she'll be going soon, since she isn't very popular on the right and she may have delivered the decision of a lifetime.
Anyhow, once again, this particular day's activities will keep yours truly away from blog-tastic work for most of the day. I may try to drop a few tidbits on the Liquid List, but mostly I'm hoping that Oliver has some time to issue us some delectable travelogue entries from his cross-country trek.
Courtesy of the good and benevolent Mr. Neal Pollack, today is Appropriate Michael Savage's Name For Your Own Purposes day. It's a shame I won't be able to blog more, but as you can see, I'm going to try to use the unsavory MSNBC bigot's name whenever possible. Oliver would positively flip over my two-second solution above, but Oliver's driving cross-country with his girl Friday, and I'm waiting for the Supreme Court to launch cruise missiles into my summer plans by announcing a retirement.
Oh, that reminds me. Today, the Supreme Court will probably announce their decision in the Texas "homosexual conduct" law challenge (look for an overturn, but on equal protection grounds, thus preserving the despicable sodomy laws in Virginia and Alabama, natch), as well as a decision in Nike v. Kaske. Nike will determine if a corporation can lie in an advertisement and have that speech be protected by the First Amendment.
But the real hullaballoo today will come if one or more members of the Court decides it's time to hang up the robe and head out to the ranch. You wonder what Rehnquist would be like to live with if he weren't a judge. Would his wife ask him a question, and then have to wait 7 months for an answer? Would he insist on delivering his responses typed on little 4 x 6 booklets, astoundingly 34 pages long? Boggles the mind.
The divine Ms. O'Connor is also a potential retiree. She just about torpedoed her chances of taking over Rehnquist's chief justice chair when she wrote that beautiful decision in the affirmative action case. It makes me think she'll be going soon, since she isn't very popular on the right and she may have delivered the decision of a lifetime.
Anyhow, once again, this particular day's activities will keep yours truly away from blog-tastic work for most of the day. I may try to drop a few tidbits on the Liquid List, but mostly I'm hoping that Oliver has some time to issue us some delectable travelogue entries from his cross-country trek.
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