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  • Elective vs. necessary

    I want to respond to one aspect of Will Saletan's blog about the nipple-piercing incident. One of Saletan's positions is that nipple piercings are elective, whereas pacemakers, prostheses, and other items made of metal that might set off airport metal detectors are not. The implication is that while it might be understandable if a pacemaker or ...
    Posted to Human Nature by SRSands on April 2, 2008

  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007

  • Not quite right on the obscenity statute.

    With all due respect to Professor Wu, his take on US obscenity law is incorrect. In his piece entitled ''American Lawbreaking,'' Prof. Wu writes that ''In the Unites States, using a computer to download obscenity is a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison.'' This is incorrect. Federal obscenity law does not apply to consumption of ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by QBoyer on October 15, 2007

  • If Kite Runner isn't released, the Terrorist win

    Okay, I can understand how scenes in this movie are going to be offensive to many - I read the book and I was horrified. But, I truly believe that to not release this film because it will offend is an obstruction of our First Amendment. The Last Temptation of Christ was banned by many of the Christian faith (my mother, whose parents were ...
    Posted to Hollywoodland by mizkc on October 12, 2007

  • What part of "congress shall make no law" don't you understand?

    Oh goodness, this is just silly. Any high school civics student can understand what Justice Thomas is saying about originalism even though the author of this article plainly cannot. All you need to do is actually read the First Amendment. Notice those first 5 words? ''Congress shall make no law''? Notice that it does not say that ''States ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by carlo rubini on August 2, 2007

  • What part of "congress shall make no law" don't you understand?

    Oh goodness, this is just silly. Any high school civics student can understand what Justice Thomas is saying about originalism even though the author of this article plainly cannot. All you need to do is actually read the First Amendment. Notice those first 5 words? ''Congress shall make no law''? Notice that it does not say that ''States ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by carlo rubini on August 2, 2007

  • Power of the principal

    Halloween was coming, and I began to put up my traditional Halloween calendar that I'd made many years before. Our new principal came in and told me that I must take it down because Halloween was a celebration of satan( I discovered that she belonged to a church that didn't participate in Halloween.) I had used this homemade calendar since my ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by redstick8 on June 26, 2007

  • The joke's on us

    The courts always have trouble with humor. They're serious places filled with serious people in serious clothes doing serious things. Judges demand - and expect -respect, and don't tolerate jokes. Even when they talk about humor, they fall back on Important Satirists like Jonathan Swift, and don't discuss the equally subversive, but much funnier, ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by randy-khan on June 26, 2007