Monthly Archive: June 2015
Survey Says…?!
When the topic is “Worst Days in American History”, Ted Cruz has the memory of a goldfish.
Marriage!
Obergefell was announced by SCOTUS this morning. 5-4 in favor of same-sex marriage rights. Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to both issues SSM licenses and to recognize licenses issued by other states. Opinion by...
In Case You Thought I Was Kidding
Some folks never disappoint, or always do, depending on your perspective.
Linky Friday #120: Rebels & Empires
This Week: Politics, Progress, Commerce, Culture, History, & the World. And a Video!
U.S. Grant, Artistic Genius…
“Grant arrived at his operational vision through perceptual speed and a ‘gift of historic imagination,’ that enabled him to ‘take in at a glance the whole field of war, to form a correct opinion of every suggested and possible…campaign, their logical order and sequence, their relative value, and the interdependence of one upon the other.'”
Weekend!
Blearily trying to shake off the jet lag that wakes you up at 4AM and makes you fall asleep somewhere around 9.
Amazon’s ‘Catastrophe’ Is A Very Good Television Show
Go watch Catastrophe because it is very funny and very good and, also, very real.
Delivering Due Deference
Chief Justice Roberts was nearly silent during oral argument, and then wrote the 6-3 majority opinion in today’s Obamacare case. Burt Likko replies to Justice Antonin Scalia’s accusations of through-the-looking-glass judicial activism.
A Sore Test of a New Conviction
Strong is the desire for vengeance. Pretends to be “justice,” vengeance does.
But down that path, no benefit will you find.
Modeling The Physical World
Computer Modeling – It’s more than just pretty pictures. (by Oscar Gordon)
In which I become a Raging Social Conservative
If your plan for staying out of jail hinges on 14-year-old girl not lying, maybe you need to rethink your plans.
