I promise...
I truly, truly intend to actually update this blog, and to do say regularly. I also have a Dashboard widget as part of Mac OS X 10.4, with which I can update this.
A few items...
1) I applaud the Canadian Parliament for passing a gay marriage bill, not because I support the concept (I don't) but because they did it semi-democratically as opposed to through judicial fiat, as we have had in Massachusetts.
2)So, how many crooks do there have to be to completely eliminate the Democratic Party of Rhode Island? In the past two years, the former House Speaker, the former Senate President, and now former Senator Celona have been exposed as criminals are as having significant, undisclosed conflicts of interest, all of which have cost them their jobs. In a telling sign, the current Speaker has an approval rating in the state equal to that of the President, and the Senate President's approval is even less--to the tune of 17%. And yet they will be re-elected, as the voters of the state screw themselves again and again.
3)Not to mention the voters of the state of Ohio, who continue to elect Republicans who do nothing for the state and inflict damage upon it (Coingate.) Yet, just as the opposite is true in Rhode Island, the sheer lack of a functioning Democratic Party, one that embraces nutcases like Jerry Springer. Neither the Rhody Reps nor Ohio Dems will ever have power for the forseeable future, and the two states are the worse for it.
4)I support the flag-burning amendment precisely because I believe that the First Amendment currently protects it. As late as the early 60s, the Supreme Court was not prepared to protect to pornography, which means that the comical First Amendment absolutism that has now entered our jurisprudence was not always so. Forty years ago, this amendment would not have been necessary; today, with a jurisprudence that protects NAMBLA but not anti-abortion protesters, and flag-burners but not Christianity in public, we need an amendment that forcibly restores sanity to the jurisprudence of the First Amendment. Of course, then Ginsburg will say that burning the flag doesn't desecrate it.
So maybe we just need an anti-aging hippie amendment.
A few items...
1) I applaud the Canadian Parliament for passing a gay marriage bill, not because I support the concept (I don't) but because they did it semi-democratically as opposed to through judicial fiat, as we have had in Massachusetts.
2)So, how many crooks do there have to be to completely eliminate the Democratic Party of Rhode Island? In the past two years, the former House Speaker, the former Senate President, and now former Senator Celona have been exposed as criminals are as having significant, undisclosed conflicts of interest, all of which have cost them their jobs. In a telling sign, the current Speaker has an approval rating in the state equal to that of the President, and the Senate President's approval is even less--to the tune of 17%. And yet they will be re-elected, as the voters of the state screw themselves again and again.
3)Not to mention the voters of the state of Ohio, who continue to elect Republicans who do nothing for the state and inflict damage upon it (Coingate.) Yet, just as the opposite is true in Rhode Island, the sheer lack of a functioning Democratic Party, one that embraces nutcases like Jerry Springer. Neither the Rhody Reps nor Ohio Dems will ever have power for the forseeable future, and the two states are the worse for it.
4)I support the flag-burning amendment precisely because I believe that the First Amendment currently protects it. As late as the early 60s, the Supreme Court was not prepared to protect to pornography, which means that the comical First Amendment absolutism that has now entered our jurisprudence was not always so. Forty years ago, this amendment would not have been necessary; today, with a jurisprudence that protects NAMBLA but not anti-abortion protesters, and flag-burners but not Christianity in public, we need an amendment that forcibly restores sanity to the jurisprudence of the First Amendment. Of course, then Ginsburg will say that burning the flag doesn't desecrate it.
So maybe we just need an anti-aging hippie amendment.
posted by The Elephant @ 11:08 AM
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