If by, “nine-zip“, you mean 5-4, then I guess it was. How many wingnuts will go around talking about the decision being unanimous over the next few days? Will anyone say it on the floor of Congress? Update. To be clear, Rush admits the actual tally was 5-4 but says that it was really “nine-zip” …
Archives for June 2009
Does This Nonsense Ever Stop?
Way to be, Krugman: So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to …
Things I Wish I Had Written
This: As all actual, practicing literary critics know, few sentences in critical works scream tendentiousness louder than: What should be transparent to any literary critic is that . . . Literary matters are only “transparent” when they’re not properly literary. If something is transparent, you don’t need a literary critic to ponder the depths it …
Life for Madoff
Sentenced to 150 years. On MSNBC earlier, Arianna Huffington made the point about how badly the SEC had failed in this case, and that basically, while Madoff was bilking people out of billions, the SEC was hounding… Martha Stewart. Also, I’m wondering when the Goldman Sachs criminal investigations are going to start. I’m heading to …
Empathy Wins!
**** Obligatory Warning that I am not a lawyer and never know what the hell I am talking about *** Via Scotusblog live blog, the court rules 5-4 in Ricci for the white firefighters (link to .pdf of the ruling here): Kennedy delivered the 5-4 majority opinion of the Court in Ricci. Justice Scalia filed …
Just Like Bush!
OMG: For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new — and uncontroversial — church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th Street Baptist on the …
Love and happiness
As a single person who enjoys being unhappy, I may be biased about this issue, but it seems to me that there are far too many books, studies, and the like being written on “how to be happy” and the “nature of love”. I haven’t read any of these, but there are tell-tale signs they …