The joy of changing the rules of the game as you play — and of having no actually moral or ethical positions above “get power”: House Republicans plan to change their rules in order to allow members indicted by state prosecutors to remain in a leadership post, a move designed to benefit Majority Leader Tom [...]
Archive for November 16th, 2004
GOP Situational Ethics
Posted in Politics on November 16, 2004 | 11 Comments »
Whither Jeff?
Posted in Bloggin on November 16, 2004 | Comments Off
Somewhere around lunch time on Friday, Jeff Clinton’s The Dawn Treader blog seems to have disappeared from the face of the planet. It was a good worldview blog, and we had several intellectually stimulating conversations ongoing, and then it simply disappeared. Anyone know what happened? Here’s hoping Jeff’s just moving to another hosting service… UPDATE: [...]
Better Do As You Are Told; Better Listen to the Radio
Posted in Culture on November 16, 2004 | 1 Comment »
God, how low and pathetic is our SCLM: In January 2003, when his campaign was still young enough that Kerry would actually sit down with reporters in a relaxed setting, he and Crowley met for breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Dubuque, Iowa. “I’d like to start out with some green tea,” Kerry told the [...]
Killing Fair Use
Posted in Legal Issues on November 16, 2004 | 7 Comments »
The Republicans in the Senate (with the almost certain aid of a few Democrats) and the lawyers in Hollywood want to kill fair use. Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record [...]
Texas: Shame of the Nation
Posted in Politics on November 16, 2004 | 5 Comments »
It would be hard to design a justice system – at least one nominally within the framework of the US Constitution – worse than they have in Texas. Its shortcomings are legendary: sleeping lawyers, hanging judges, an appellate system that is the next thing to the Inquisition, refusal to consider overwhelming evidence of actual innocence [...]
The DNC Race
Posted in Politics on November 16, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Enough with the Liberal vs. Centrist nonsense surrounding the DNC race. It is a non issues. The two candidates on one side — Dean and Rosenberg — are both centrist in their politics (and don’t say “Dean is a liberal!”. It just makes you look silly. Opposing a given war or a given president doesn’t [...]
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