June 2009
Sotomayor Dismissed Race-Related Cases by 8-to-1... →
This came via @jdickerson, Slate’s politics writer, on Twitter.
“In sum, in an eleven-year career on the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor has participated in roughly 100 panel decisions involving questions of race and has disagreed with her colleagues in those cases (a fair measure of whether she is an outlier) a total of 4 times. Only one case (Gant) in that entire eleven years...
May 2009
Goddamnit, I misspelled spirulina.
“My whole defense was that when the young lady saw me in court, she’d say...”
– Jerry Lee Evans, the latest innocent man cleared by DNA testing in Dallas County AFTER SPENDING 23 YEARS IN PRISON.
I'm stuck on a plane and reading tumblr and all I...
Thanks for not being like so many of the people I encounter “in real life.”
Prop 8
monkeyfrog:
I am not a brilliant political commentator. I am certainly not a lawyer or politician. I’m not gay, and I’m not religious. I am angry, and I hope this will make sense.
I hate discrimination. I don’t care who it is against. I have many relatives who are Mormons, and who remember not so long ago when I was okay to kill someone for being Mormon. I have gun-toting, bible-thumping...
Dallas Recommendations?
The only time I’ve ever spent in Dallas is at the airport. I know nothing about it except the tv show (awesome), the Cowboys (HATE), and the grassy knoll (history nerd). But I will be there tonight through Friday morning.
Anybody have suggestions for what I can do and where I can go? Any local culinary specialties (think Tex-Mex or brisket and newspaper rather than linens and caviar)? Any...
ARGH!!! I'm so effin' tired of hearing otherwise...
ronbailey:
Torture is criminal, inhumane, brutal, immoral and dehumanizing. Those are the only salient facts.
Taking a baseball bat to your kid’s jaw is a very “effective” method to make him shut up and go away already, but we don’t argue that it’s ever OK to do so.
Tumblarity: 29
sokeri:
lidmo:
That, my friends, is all.
but your sokerity is a brazillion!
Sadly, neither a tumblarity of 29 nor a sokerity of brazillion will get you a free Grand Slamwich at Denny’s.
To all of you being nostalgic about San Fran:
americanmailorderbride:
The NorCal - SoCal cultural divide is so clear right now, because I keep seeing your posts and thinking, “Meh, nice place to visit, but I could never live there. Too many hippies. Too cold. Too politically correct.”
What can I say? I’m a SoCal girl through and through.
I’ve lived in San Fran and L.A., loved them both and could live either place. But if it was a...
PJ Harvey - “Long Snake Moan”
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Space? Or no space?
lilykily:
My 5 year old asked me just now, “Mommy, how do you spell a lot?” So I told her with clear instructions, ” A and a SPACE and then LOT. Do this EVERYTIME because when one uses a lot as alot-one word, it is incorrect grammar and it bugs people. Namely, ME.”
YES.
mayafish:
I’m sorry emzbulletproof, I have a new...