Monthly Archive: June 2015
Lend a hand?
An old friend of the site’s best friend needs medical support and it probably won’t be cheap.
Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
Mass Resistance (read: Marriage Equality) from Rand Paul, the Only Progressive Candidate.
Discussing the Unilateral Exit Right…
Dave discusses the unilateral exit right (i.e. secession), how the legal argument was framed, and shares a few additional thoughts. Dave also suggests reading it before bed time.
Big Monday, 2015
The Supreme Court adjourns for the Term with decisions about redistricting, air pollution, and executions. Burt Likko summarizes each of them, and offers a sad observation about judicial comity losing one of its most prominent sentinels,
Red Jobs, Blue Jobs [Updated/Updating]
Profession predisposes peoples’ political preferences. Perhaps.
Dear Straight Republicans…
It’s way past time for rank and file Republicans who are gay supportive to speak up.
A Qatari Travelogue (And Conversion)
Seeing the World can get you to change your mind about a lot of things.
churches burning
Seven black churches have burned since Roof murdered nine people because they were black. Four, thus far, have been found to be arson.
The Highest Profile Legal Writing Clinic Ever
The legal writing in Obergefell v. Hodges is both a model and a caution for future writers, especially those who, like lawyers, would write to persuade.
Sunday!
We saw Jurassic World and I’d talk about it in this post except I’ll be darned if I can remember anything about it.
Obama Didn’t Lie in 2008 About Marriage being Between a Man and a Woman
If you try hard enough, you can convince yourself that Barack Obama’s views on gay marriage really did “evolve” even though his personal feelings didn’t.
How to Keep it Classy (This is Sincere)
How we would all react to losing at the Supreme Court in an ideal world.
