Monthly Archive: May 2022
Weekend Plans Post: Getting in bar fights with Icelanders over whether Kiss is a better band than Sigur Rós
Some things should be obvious to anybody.
The Pro-Life Movement Must Embrace Continuing Moral and Practical Obligations
The pro-life movement has a unique chance to actually, in word and deed, dispel the critique of being merely “pro-birth.”
Thursday Throughput: Next Gen Vaccine Edition
We want a vaccine that deals with variants in the same way that the measles vaccine does. Some don’t think that is possible with coronavirus.
Let’s Let T-Shirts Be Just What They Are
I’ll not be conscribed. I’m not the only one with dissenting t-shirts in the back of a drawer or a laissez faire pizza dough recipe.
About Last Night: Vance Wins Ohio GOP Senate Primary
JD Vance went from floundering to a comfortable win in the Ohio GOP Primary for US Senate, thanks to a Donald Trump endorsement.
Wednesday Writs: First Amendment in Shurtleff v Boston
Some nice First Amendment red meat. This week’s case of the week is hot off the SCOTUS press: Shurtleff v. Boston
Summing Up Justice Alito’s Draft Opinion in Dobbs v Mississippi
To sum up the draft opinion on abortion, Justice Alito focuses on the abstract intellectual and legal origins of rights.
Politico Releases Purported Alito Draft Overturning Roe & Casey
Politico has released what they are calling a “first draft” of an opinion authored by Justice Alito that “Roe and Casey must be overruled.”
Jan 6 Committee Subpoena of RNC Upheld: Read It For Yourself
A federal judge has ruled that the Jan 6 committee has the authority and legal reasoning to get the RNC’s fundraising emails.
Return to Normalcy?
Empathy is a binder. So is suffering. We’ve been told over two years that “We’re all in this together,” as we are told to stay apart.
An Evening with John Strickland
“Painter John Strickland” was a necessary characterization to get the first paragraph dealt with, but let me tell you about John Strickland.
Sunday Morning! “This is Memorial Device” by David Keenan
Because, like all great books on music, David Keenan is really writing about us, nudging us in the ribs, and saying Hey, do you remember…
The Bridge Naomi Judd Built
Naomi Judd has passed. I mourn the death of a woman who embodied hope, feminism and zero f’s given long before it was fashionable.
