This is unfortunately too common: The book, “All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education,” was published earlier this year. A long passage at the beginning of one chapter was taken, without attribution, from a book of essays edited by Yale Law School professor Jack M. Balkin. Balkin’s book, [...]
Archive for September 17th, 2004
The Degeneration of Public Intellectuals
Posted in Culture on September 17, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Conservative Conniptions: Hate 'em All, Then Go Back and Hate 'em One by One
Posted in Church & State, Culture, Legal Issues, Politics on September 17, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The legal fallout from last spring’s sudden flowering of gay marriages continues to accumulate. Gay marriages in California were nullified in August: even though the legal case in California was ostensibly focused only on whether Mayor Newsom of San Francisco could continue performing the marriages, and the individuals affected were explicitly denied an opportunity to [...]
Conservative Conniptions: A Popular Pastime
Posted in Culture on September 17, 2004 | 10 Comments »
In addition to the Procter & Gamble boycott (immediately below), conservatives are up in arms about . . . oh, well, pretty much everything. A Google search on “conservative boycott” returns 102,000 hits. Among them: Conservative Boycott Targets Disney (allows “Gay Day” every year) Bruce Springsteen (anti-Bush) Abercrombie & Fitch (“because of their use of [...]
Conservative Conniptions: When Stupidity and Bigotry Combine
Posted in Culture, Economics, Religion on September 17, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The Christian right-wing is boycotting Procter and Gamble again, for the wrong reason. (Seems P&G can’t catch a break. Stupid Christians have been boycotting them for the wrong reason for decades now.) Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family and the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon of American Family Association have both called for [...]
What's Up With Gallup?
Posted in Politics on September 17, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Okay, the last three national polls have shown the race very, very close, within a point. Two have Kerry up by one, one has Bush up by one. Even the Newsweek poll has shown Bush’s lead dropping from 12 to five. Then comes Gallup. Gallup has Bush up by fourteen among likely voters. Now, things [...]
Creative Disruption?
Posted in Politics on September 17, 2004 | Comments Off
So a guy says he was accosted at a Kerry rally and his daughter’s bumper sticker was torn up. That’s terrible, if its true. But, as Atrios points out, this isn’t the first time this has happened to this guy, and, well, just go read ….
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