A jaundiced look at the world we live in.
The legislature in Maine has passed a bill that–when signed by the governor, as expected–will legalize same-sex marriages in that state.
This is a real problem: what will the rightwingers do without “activist judges” to blame? First Iowa, of all places, and now Maine!
Somehow, “activist legislatures” doesn’t have the same ring to it…
Glenn Greenwald responds to a letter from the absurdly mis-named Accuracy in Media.
It's worth a read.
From a friend of mine:
“I spent the weekend w/ friends of my age (actually, a bit younger) and we kept not remembering words and names. Finally, I said: ‘It takes a village to finish a sentence.'”
If truer words were ever spoken, I don’t remember them!
• The energy used each year making the bottles needed to meet the demand for bottled water in the United States is equivalent to more than 17 million barrels of oil. That’s enough to fuel over 1 million cars for a year.
so this simply reinforces my pre-existing impression of him.
From page 177 of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin: