It’s amazing how infrequently the news cites or links to original source material. The hardest part of posting today was finding the dang statutory language. In relevant part the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) stipulates that a governmental entity may not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion . . .[unless it] (1) is […]
Category: legal
Free Running
As the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins, I thought I’d recycle my Boston Marathon blong. I’ll plagiarize myself from two years ago. I can’t say it any differently: If you’ve ever been to Boston you’ve probably been forced to walk, likely by a mom or wife, some portion of the “Freedom Trail” against your will. […]
PTA
Adam Carolla’s exhausting, howitzer-style commentary falls into one of three categories: 1. Wildly offensive, profane, vulgar, mysoginistic, borderline racist; 2. Non-lude/non-bigoted but still wrong; and 3. Pure-cane genius. I was never into what I surmised about his type of comedy. The Man Show. Crank Yankers. Love Line. More recently, Carolla has become a kind of […]
Shameful
The conduct of China’s Princeling, Bo Xilai, you ask? (I like to imagine his last name is pronounced like the prodigious rapper of my youth, Chi Ali.) Nope. That he was just recently indicted for bribery, corruption, and abuse of power? Nope. How about that I already have a Princelings song ready to roll? Uh […]
It Only Takes One
The President’s gun violence plan seems pretty reasonable. It doesn’t strike me as executive power too far. Without boring you the history, executive orders are constitutional, especially where they are made within the context of some explicit or implicit congressional authorization, see Dames & Moore v. Regan. Here, the President has tweaked the efficacy of […]
Don’t Drop the Soap
There is a lot of hidden tragedy. So to get too dogmatic about one seems a high horse amongst Clydesdales. One in a crowd. But prison rape to me has long been infuriating. (Not where you thought I was headed?) It’s just totally unacceptable, with any regularity, in a civilized criminal justice system. It’s like […]
Casinos and Daycares
So I have a friend who has a friend who does sweepstakes as a hobby. I know. Sounds like doing bath salts as a dessert. Or doing your nails as massage. Wait. People actually do that. Anyway, he raked. Like a serious family vacay every year. Hawaii not Dollywood. Sorry, Mom and Dad (they’re D-Wood […]
Not Guilty
A year ago today, Casey Anthony was so found. There was a good bit of outrage, as you might remember. I don’t have much more to say beyond what I already have. This, of course, is not about the “correctness” or accuracy of the verdict but rather the condition of our own hearts, as we […]
Battle of Wits
I mostly hate the cultish “Princess Bride.” I hate it precisely for other peoples’s exaggerated praise for it. Typically juvenile of me. “Oh, it’s dialectic is so rich.” “Andre the Giant is superb!” Whatevs. Rocky IV, by contrast, slays every time. “Whatever he hits . . . he des- thtrrroys!” (That’s thick phonetical Russian, right […]
The Supremes
A number of important decisions in the United States Supreme Court today. Live blogging over at scotusblog.com. I’ll be back with my thoughts. But, it looks like no Health Care decision today.
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