After watching Republicans scream “Activist Judge” every time a ruling they don’t like is issued, while also doing everything they could to pack the courts with activists and, if you remember the Schiavo case, smearing good Judges like Judge Greer when they didn’t engage in activism they liked, it is nice to see this from …
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Crazier and Crazier
Apparently, a new reading of the Second Amendment in South Dakota requires you to own a firearm, even if you don’t want one: Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.” The bill, which would take effect …
The Abortion=Slavery meme debunked
One of the recurring memes/lies of wingnutopia is that abortion is just like slavery and that a fetus is just like a slave. A corollary to this meme/lie is that President Obama (or any black man or woman) is a race traitor if they support a women’s right to choose. Fetishist Rick Santorum has been …
Technology Reality Check
ABL’s Twitter debunking link in the previous post, which was an interview with a “ordinary Egyptian”, was worth reading: Fuck the internet! I have not seen it since Thursday and I am not missing it. I don’t need it. No one in Tahrir Square needs it. No one in Suez needs it or in Alex…Go …
Egypt: Uprising [Open Thread]
Million Person March Emily L. Hauser’s posts can be found here; Al-Jazeera has live coverage and updates; Mother Jones has a good rundown of what’s been going on; Here’s a guide on how not to say stupid shit about Egypt; Google and Twitter have provided a work around to allow people in Egypt to tweet …
Early Morning Open Thread: Three Rescues
From commentor Josefina: Rescue 1: I knew I shouldn’t adopt a dog here in the city before I had time for it. So before I went freelance, I gave a lot of thought to my dog-related requirements: a medium-sized female, black so the shedding wouldn’t show as much. Through a convoluted yet boring series of …
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“Property vs. Liberty”
With bad memories of Rumsfeld’s dismissal of the looting of the Iraqi national museum lingering, I was probably not the only person heartened by this NYTimes note on Saturday (c3:45pm): Defending the Egyptian Museum:A cross-section of Cairo residents formed a human chain on Saturday to help guard Egyptian antiquities at a national museum. __ Cairo …