Archive for July, 2009

Supreme Court Strategery

18Jul09

Far and away one of the most effective (in terms of achieving his objectives) decisions by George W. Bush was nominating Justices Roberts and Alito. Although Bush deserves little of the credit since he tired to place Harriet Myers on the Court, there is no denying that Conservative got exactly what they were looking in [...]


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You Want The Truth About My Judicial Rulings?

17Jul09

I often think that the lifetime appointment of Supreme Court Justices is problematic and unnecessary, then a Supreme Court starts talking about their rulings and says something that can be easily taken out of context and I’m remember why they probably need lifetime appointments. Here’s Gerson on Ruth Bader Ginsburg in today’s WaPo:
Justice Ginsburg: “Yes, [...]


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Questions For History Students of The Future

12Jul09

Why was it OK to overthrow a unpopular President in South America using military force, but it’s totally not cool to vote against the judicial nominees of an unpopular President in North America?


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Ground Breaking Commentary

12Jul09

So I thought the stuff You Should Know was informal, but listening to the Coolest Stuff on Earth Podcast (both by How Stuff Works) I struck by how stoned they sounded.
I mean downright silly stuff.


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Old School Transformers

11Jul09

The death of Optimus Prime in this movie was the most historically and culturally important event of the 1980s. Don’t let anybody tell otherwise.

OK, more seriously as a 8 year old it was pretty jarring to watch the action scenes in this movie that were down right brutal compared to [...]


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Let the Sunshine

07Jul09

Get in touch with your inner-hippie.

Alternatively you could consider this a subtle criticism of Obama’s failure to adopt the transparency rules he supported during the primaries.


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