Back Row, Left to Right: Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Samuel Alito Front Row: Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, David Souter (retired) Recently, ESPN’s Lester Munson published an excellent story on, of all things, constitutional law and corporate personhood. The case, which will be heard by the Supreme Court [...] Read more »
Late last week, the House of Representatives announced they were seeking additional funding for the Cash for Clunkers program. The program, which allocated 1 billion dollars in subsidies and government assistance to those trading older, less fuel efficient cars for newer models with better gas mileage, will shut down Tuesday without new funding despite being [...] Read more »
The economy will fix itself eventually. It’s a foregone conclusion. How long it will take, however, isn’t clear. In my eyes, there’s one way that President Barack Obama and the current government can create jobs, cut costs, earn money and give the economy a major boost in one easy move: Legalize marijuana. Those of you [...] Read more »
“I really wish I could be there,” Jen tells me. “Hopefully they’ll have another in four years.” “Where?” “The inauguration.” “They have one every four years,” I reply. “No, I mean for Obama.” I understand that she likes the guy. She considers herself a Chicagoan and worked on his campaign. She’s progressive and young and [...] Read more »
As if it weren’t enough that the president-elect got his own origin story in a comic before he got elected, the upcoming January 14 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man will be featuring the nation’s first black president as a side-kick. Lisa Tolin of the Associated Press reports that Joe Queseda, Marvel Comic’s editor-in-chief, was so [...] Read more »
There’s an old Jewish toast, “Next year in the Holy Land,” or “Next year in Jerusalem.” At this rate, there might not be a next year in the Holy Land, let alone Jerusalem. With attacks in the Gaza Region turning heads around the globe, eliciting protests across the Arab world, and helping 2008 go out [...] Read more »
NOTE: I know some of you are left wing liberals already on the climate change bandwagon. I love you, but this article isn’t meant for you. For those of you who aren’t climate change people, this is my attempt to actually delve into the issue. Most of the links I cite will be from science [...] Read more »
It’s 5 AM in Prague and I’m crouched in a stairwell. The second presidential debate just ended on CNN Europe and I kept running tabs of the whole thing. I’ll post the entirety of my notes below, but you’re better off just getting transcript if you’re interested. Matt’s disappointed. He thinks Obama bombed. Matt is [...] Read more »
In the January 2007 Issue of Harper’s Magazine, David Graeber published an article entitled “An Army of Altruists” discussing the reasons for the political unrest the US currently feels. For over a month, I’ve waited to be able to link people to it. Now, thanks to a posting of the article in its entirety by [...] Read more »
It’s come to my attention that we have a grave problem in America today: Zombie Weddings. You see, despite the fact that being a zombie is a mortal sin, people continue to be zombies without ever considering what sort of effect this might have on our children. San Francisco has become a haven for zombies [...] Read more »