… they were told “turn the channel!” … The latest victim of the growing controversy over the Confederate flag is the 1980s TV series “The Dukes of Hazzard.” A TV Land spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that the network has pulled reruns of the series from its schedule, which had been airing twice a day. The network declined to comment on why the episodes were removed, but the South-set show has come
July 2015
July 2, 2015
Oh, geez, I’m so old I remember when people would complain about a TV show being offensive … [Darleen Click]
July 1, 2015
Oh, look, some Libertarians are having a few second thoughts about the goals of gay activists post-Obergefell [Darleen Click]
And it is not like they haven’t been warned … In the 40-some-odd years since the Libertarian Party took such positions, we’ve seen the end of sodomy laws, the end of officially sanctioned government discrimination against gay employees, both civilian and military—and with Obergefell v. Hodges, the end of government bans on same-sex marriage recognition. We’ve seen the end of just about every government policy that treats gay and lesbian
July 1, 2015
a post that examines what life would be life if Boggle game boards could actually speak
Boggle: “acrkbrdiegmlsotl” me: “Seriously? Are you sure?” Boggle: “”acrkbrdiegmlsotl” me: “Wait — all of them? Or is that final s just an accident?” Boggle: “acrkbrdiegmlsotl” me: “If you say so. But when I finish killing off all the abes, you’re going to have to tell the cops and the court that it was you who told me to do it, ok?” Boggle: “Meh. No need. Kennedy and the other four
July 1, 2015
House pictures!
For you all! And because it seems really to tick off a needy, creepy, clingy, self-styled white fish who, like so many before it, can’t seem to quit me. It took us about 7 months but we finally got the floors laid in the basement, having ripped out the carpet that came with the “finished” build. The floors now match (in appearance, not in material) the main floor hardwood. To
July 1, 2015
A follow up: re: intentionalism, textualism, originalism
In the comments to yesterday’s post, Ernst asks, “Jeff, how does intentionalism as an legal hermeneutic relate to originalism?” This is a good question, so I thought I’d turn my answer into a separate post. Here’t goes: Originalism sets the boundaries for what comes to count as the text under examination for purposes of claimed interpretation: it forces the central and indeed kernel acknowledgment of intentionalism that the text is