Originalist Sin 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice warns that we are about to see cancel culture, originalist style.
My old Philly DL friend Noz predicts that it will be an “end to democracy as we know it in the U.S.”
(Were I Noz’s editor, I would have suggested that he strike “as we know it” from that sentence.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Protest your expulsion from the public house with politeness.
QOTD 0
Ryan Stiles, in the voice of Lewis Kiniski:
Our economy is based on hard-working people staying in their crappy little jobs.
Vaccine Nation 0
Yet more stupid: Ted Cruz picks a fight with Elmo the Muppet over COVID-19 vaccinations.
We are a suicidal society. We are stupiding ourselves to extinction.
The Obvious Will Out 0
Emma points out, “Lay in bed with a tiger and it claws your face.”
He laid in bed with a tiger. It (figuratively) clawed his face.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness when passing other motorists on the nation’s highways.
Originalist Sin, Catch-22 Dept. 0
It’s the best catch there is.
Jonathan Wolf explains at Above the Law. Here’s a bit (warning: mild language):
Alienable Rights 0
Michael Paul Williams reminds us that the United States and its Supreme Court have a history of granting, then retracting rights. Here’s just one of the examples he cites (emphasis added):
“Every 15 years, the status of Black people changed according to the Supreme Court,” Perry* said. “Our rights are as firm as the people who vote to protect them.”
The battle is never over.
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*Howard University political science professor Ravi Perry.
Devolution 0
Thom sees a pattern.
Republican Family Values 0
Aside:
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, my mother subscribed to Lady’s Home Journal and McCall’s Magazine (both of which are now defunct). I read them, because I read everything I could get my hands on, even my father’s issues of U. S. News and World Report, which he subscribed to after Time Magazine ticked him off for some reason.
Those ladies’ magazines were not just about fashion and make-up. The death toll from back-alley abortions was a frequent topic. Because I was a young ‘un, I can’t say that I understood the physiology, at least not until later when I was not quite such a young ‘un, but I certainly understood the psychology: frightened women in crisis, feeling imperiled, futures and reputations endangered, desperately taking dangerous chances to protect themselves, their futures, and sometimes their families.
And today’s Republican Party would bring those days back.