By now you’ve heard about the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC. If you watched the State of the Union Address, you heard President Obama call out the Court for it’s poor jurisprudence. There are two main reasons why I think Citizens United was, in fact, poor jurisprudence.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Pat Robertson, Cancer on Society
Conservative wingnuts have outdone themselves today. I cannot think of a sufficiently repugnant metaphor to adequately describe Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson. Pustulent genital sores comes close. (Apologies to those with weak stomachs.)
Friday, January 8, 2010
Great Books
Aristotle wrote, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” Our habits speak volumes about us. It strikes me as a corollary that what we love also reveals much about us. And to be clear, I do not mean the things we profess to love. Although, even what we profess to love says much about us.
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