http://snarkybastards.com Constitution Fanboys Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:53:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today Dorothy and I were walking around the refrigerator section of a Best Buy. We were going down the line opening the doors of each refrigerator. About the fifteenth we opened, we found cheesecake and plates, and a note advising us to help ourselves.  So we did. Not the best ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/05/a-most-delightful-surprise/ Did you know that the mark on Gorbachev's head is correctly called a "port-wine stain"? I love Wikipedia. I cannot think of a better source of information, whether it's finding the names for skin lesions, or allowing country bumpkins like myself to learn of the correct etiquette for passing port ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/05/do-you-know-the-bishop-of-norwich/ Obama claims that having a single summer clerkship means that he "worked his way through" law school. If that's the case, then every lawyer I've ever met "worked his way through" law school. Most law students, and certainly almost every Harvard Law student, will have at least one summer clerkship. ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/04/i-question-your-definition-of-work/ ...when none of Elizabeth Taylor's ex-husbands are in the Senate. If Warner gets a speeding ticket on his way home after retiring, I'd pay it. Faster, please. http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/04/america-will-be-a-better-place/ O-B-A-M-A. On detainee rights, on gun rights, and now on abortion, in the space of a month he's now come out with three positions that are in direct opposition to the type of Supreme Court justice he claims he'd appoint. Moreover, the three justices he's singled out as his model ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/04/how-do-you-spell-disingenuous/ The WSJ quotes Silent Cal in its Notable & Quotable today: Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/03/coolidge-is-still-right/ Their morning show anchor: Your move CNN. http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/02/why-i-watch-fox-news/ But what, after all, makes for an effective political insult? The answer is style. Too coarse, and the abuser sounds malicious. Too unimaginative, and the words evaporate en route. Too petty, and the insulter is harmed more than the insultee. Too distant from truth, and it just won't stick. Bill Moyers's ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/02/the-dying-art-of-vituperation/ Yesterday morning on NPR, this guy was discussing the results of Boumedeine. He was describing a future where the government had to go before a judge to justify every single person detained in a war: to prove that the detainee had some sort of belligerent connection, and to prove that ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/02/just-so-we-know-where-this-is-going/ The DNC has been trying to fence off an area where protestors can protest without disrupting the proceedings; now the ACLU (H/T) is arguing that this violates the protestors' First Amendment rights: But the American Civil Liberties Union and several advocacy groups have filed an amended complaint to their lawsuit against ... http://snarkybastards.com/index.php/2008/07/01/aclu-v-dnc/