- Hekman for Senate.
- Do you think they’d accommodate Christians like this?
- 3 choice lines.
- Truthiness, proofiness, and 75¢
- Love divided by X.
- Cutting edge legal theory: “altrustic filicide.”
- Looks like we’ve got us a chain letter!
- Newsweek’s Bachmann cover.
- 2012 Même Preview.
- Tipsy taunts a Ditzy prosecutor.
Category: Speech & Press
Tasty Tidbits 8/10/11
- Should Christians stay the heck in the closet?
- Contraceptives I.
- Contraceptives II.
- Regulate the Messenger!
- What if “the one what brung ya” is too boring to dance with?
- Fake blessings, real blessings.
Tasty Tidbits 8/6/11
- A stupid, stupid liberal legal attack.
- Transfiguration.
- Responding to The Response.
- Fun with technology.
Tasty Tidbits 8/5/11
- Man tries to hurl himself over the White House fence.
- Something’s not right ….
- Tu quoque.
- Did anyone warn the legislature?
- The elephant in the budget room.
- Happy Birthday, Wendell Berry.
- E-Trade Baby loses his … diaper region.
Tasty Tidbits 7/19/11
- I’ve reviewed the instant replay, and it’s strike 3.
- Justice Samuel Alito, Burkean.
- Shhhh! Don’t say “death panels!”
- It’s going to be a long decade for _______.
- Europe may be broke, but it’s got style.
- Philly gets a new star.
- Flash! Unsigned NYT Lead Editorial May Be Right!
Tasty Tidbits 7/14/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:
- “The Man Who Won’t Listen to Anyone”?
- Flash! Discriminatory law enjoined because it might discriminate!
- A second look at CAFOs.
- Sculptures you can live in.
- Spotify.
- Tech Bubble II?
- Discrimination is inevitable.
Tasty Tidbits 7/13/11
- Anyone want to make any snide comments about the “slippery slope”
- “So this stupid, subhuman homeless person walks into a newspaper story and says ….”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cracker.
- Newt the Constitutional Scholar.
- Pandora gets — Holy smokes! Wouldja look at that! — a facelift.
- I do so wish that some GOP hopeful for 2012 would not race to the lunatic fringe.
- Can the study of history heal the culture wars?
- Souls experience strange things, apparently, when exiled from the body.
- “One of the Best Ones” is one of his best ones.
Tasty Tidbits 7/8/11
Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing:
- The epitome of greatness turns 83.
- Obama’s perverse attack on DOMA.
- There oughtn’t be a law.
- Who can sing?
- What’s wrong with this table?
- Which head of Hydra do we attack first?
- Making politics personal in the digital age.
- Who killed Communism?
- 7×8=62
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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing preview
We don’t even have a nominee yet, but the posturing — academic and political — is shaping up, as signaled on the editorial page of today’s Washington Post.
In the right corner, weighing in with the mantra of “commitment to the text of the Constitution and the vision of the Founding Fathers,” is senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama, ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
In the left corner, weighing in with the historical untenability of ascribing to the Founders any unified “original intent,” is Joseph J. Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.
Ellis is would win the match on points, but Sessions has a knockout punch: by and large, Americans agree with him, whether or not original intent is tenable historically.
It is perhaps probably significant that neither one speaks of abortion, the issue that, whether explicitly or encoded, has dominated confirmation hearings for decades. The current hot button issues for Sessions are political speech, guns, and eminent domain.
