If you say something and then apologize, try making it a real apology: A number of people have raised questions regarding part of my essay in the most recent issue of Emory Magazine. Certainly, I do not consider slavery anything but heinous, repulsive, repugnant, and inhuman. I should have stated that fact clearly in my …
Archives for February 2013
Ear Worm Diary
I’m very seriously considering starting an ear worm diary for all the various earworms I have throughout the day. It’s kind of amazing how many songs I catch myself singing. Here’s a sample from today. I woke to this: A couple hours later, caught myself singing this: Then there was this:
Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Ix-Nay on the Azy-Cray, Fellas
Via Paul Constant, Erick “voice of the GOP Gated Community” Erickson sends out a very stern letter warning his fellow GOP (excuse me, conservative) bloggers to clean up their grounds, because using junker cars as lawn ornaments and the torn-out seats as porch furniture is a clear violation of the party gated community covenant: … …
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Originalism- Tastes Like Wingnuttery
Oh, my: There were audible gasps in the Supreme Court’s lawyers’ lounge, where audio of the oral argument is pumped in for members of the Supreme Court bar, when Justice Antonin Scalia offered his assessment of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. He called it a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” Racial entitlement? The …
An Armed Society Is…
…one in which ERs will never want for trade. For this latest in the annals of gun idiocy, here, presented without comment, is a report from CBS 42 in Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham police officers were on patrol in north Birmingham when they observed three employees from a trucking company chasing a trespasser from their property. …
Singing songs about the southland
I have no idea what the judges will do with the Voting Rights Act, but I’m sure having five Republican judges strike it down will help the Republican party with the blahs and brahs. Am I wrong to think that the Republican judges who are primarily partisans (I’m not saying all five are) would be …
A Reminder: What the Hagel Farce Was Actually About – Outsourced to Peter Beinart
I don’t generally link to the Daily Beast (for many and various reasons) but led by Bruce Bartlett’s twitterizing, I got to Peter Beinart’s clear, succinct description of what was really at stake in the Hagel nonsense: The right’s core problem with Hagel wasn’t his alleged anti-Semitism. From Jerry Falwell to Glenn Beck to Rupert …