So, they are evacuating Bangkok in anticipation of horrendous flooding. But, every time I’ve done an Act of God song, see,e.g., here, here, here, here, here, and here, it sounds like a leftover ballad from Farm Aid. There just isn’t much of an angle beyond, “Wow, this is really sad” and “man, the Earth sure […]
Category: constitutional
Of Public Concern
The Supreme Court returned an 8 to 1 decision today, in Snyder v. Phelps, C.A. No. 09-751 (March 2, 2011), which held that members of the Westboro Baptist Church had the constitutional right to picket military funerals to express views of “public concern.” Public concern is a term of art used to describe highly protected […]
President’s Day: The Least Powerful King
I bit off more than I could chew this time. I waited too late and tried to do too much. For some reason, in tribute to the day, I thought it would be interesting to chronicle all 44 presidents in today’s blong. Not so interesting. The delivery trails off so poorly about midway through the […]
Necessary and Proper
Today’s a first. Recorded the song on the road. The ipoet is completely mobile. So I can now literally be rap blogging in a high speed car chase or burning building. (Assuming there is an non-password protected wireless network nearby. No, that’s illegal, and I would not do that unless I really, really needed to […]
A State of our Union Special: The Kid from Scranton Fist Pump
The ipoet is here. The reason this site exists. To rap the news stories that make the average man’s nose bleed. After a fairly long day at work and then roller skating with my boy (” . . . it’s a Saturday, a Saturday . . .”) and then cleaning my room and […]
Friendly Skies
And getting friendlier. A cadre of delayed passengers almost killed the boarding pass handlers last night at Charlotte Douglas International’s C10 gate who had, only moments before, permitted the departing plane to taxi away, notwithstanding information that a companion flight had been substantially delayed. No one seemed particularly relieved that they might have instead just had […]
MONDAY CONFIDENTIAL
This post will self-destruct unless you quickly and repeatedly press play. Commentary on recent classified document dump by Wikileaks of nearly 400,000 Iraq War documents, which may or may not include evidence of war crimes, torture in secret prisons, significant civilian casualties, and even limited caches of WMDs. Themes include substantial controversy over the propriety […]
Reading Madison’s Mind
Reaction to the Sonia Sotomayor hearings and what might constitute reasonable criteria for confirmation. Additionally and loosely querying what it means to plunge the “original intent” of the founding father’s private minds as we go about the work of constitutional interpretation, the Federalist Papers notwithstanding. Performed by ipoet. Music produced by Harry Krum. Today’s audio […]
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