Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
- Red states consume more porn? - Boing Boing
Based on their limited data, the largest consumer is Utah
but never on Sunday. - Essay - Read a Book, Get Out of Jail - NYTimes.com
- Michael J. Totten: Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut
Last week Christopher Hitchens and I were attacked in Beirut. Less than 24 hours after we landed at the international airport, a half dozen members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party jumped us on Hamra Street when he defaced one of their signs.
- Science Centric | News | Do doodle: Research shows doodling can help memory recall
- Science Centric | News | Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?
- Open the Future: John Henry was an Audiobook-Readin' Man
- Government Talk Pretty One Day - Alan Wolfe
Talk about judges making up law out of whole cloth--that, pretty much, is what the U. S. Supreme Court has just done. In Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, the Court, by a unanimous vote, concluded that a somewhat offbeat religious group has no right to place a monument touting what it calls the Seven Aphorisms on public land that already features a monument to the Ten Commandments.
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re: the story by hitchens companion on that fateful day: unbelievable! no, i mean the thing has more holes than a sieve. some parts are truly not believable. the only way i could make sense of it wss by reading it with an exaggerated lisp. then i read this:
listen, 3 men are attacked by one man. he manages to hold on to them until his buddys arrive, apparantly quite some time.
3 men are attacked by 7 or 8 men. 2 of the 3 are essentially unscathed.
if i were hitchens,i would choose my travel companions more carefully in the future. and he and his friends should just come out of the closet and give up on the self-hating gay trip. i'd have more sympathy for them.
also, hitchens was supposedly repeatedly kicked and punched in the head repeatedly by 7 or 8 men for some time while neither he nor his two companions offered any real resistance. if that picture is supposed to be hitchens after the attack, im tellin' ya, this didn't go down the way this story claims.
Re:Government Talk,
I thought it odd Wolfe had such a lengthy paraphrase of Alito's opinion and no actual quotes. If anyone is interested in the actual opinion, here it is.
I'm no lawyer, but I think it boils down to the fact that while we all have a right to free speech, we don't necessarily have a right to be heard.
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