If you want to go to an Easter Brunch and you left getting reservations to the last minute, it’s helpful to have a golf course and clubhouse about 500 yards down the hill from your house. That’s Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor in the background. It’s the site of the Pacific Aviation …
She’s waiting for her food dish to be filled. From Events
In a perceptive post at TPM, Josh Marshall writes Over the last few days, as the emerging national marriage equality consensus has become more clear, a number of social conservatives have begun suggesting they are now in a new and oppressive climate in which they’re no longer able to speak their minds about the immorality …
While listening to the arguments the anti-gay crowd was making I heard them mention that procreation was critical to a marriage. I said to myself, “What does that mean for couples who either choose not to or can’t have children?” I didn’t think it all the way through. Tom Junod did, at Esquire’s Politics Blog …
Once again, SCOTUSBlog has one of the most comprehensive sets of links I’ve seen to discussion of today’s events at the Supreme Court. From all I’ve heard, no one would be surprised if the Defense of Marriage Act is ruled unconstitutional, either on states’ rights grounds (Kennedy) or on equal protection grounds (Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginzburg, …
Here’s the best roundup of reactions in the legal fraternity and on a selection of media blogs/columns. It hadn’t occurred to me till today, but there’s apparently a very real possibility that the Court could decide it doesn’t want to decide this at all just yet. From the “Plain English” summation of the arguments at …
I’ve been humming along to the Coke ads that use this song thematically, but I had no clue it was originally performed by Supertramp. I couldn’t have named a single song that group had done until I looked this one up. Here’s the songwriter in concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Call it the little school that could, I guess. Today Florida Gulf Coast University, a school which nobody west of Pensacola or north of Tallahassee ever heard of, defeated San Diego State today, two days after beating one of the NCAA’s royalty in Georgetown, and it’s now the first 15th seeded team ever to make …
Senator Mitch McConnell said this today on the third anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act: “The biggest mistake in modern times, in my judgment, was the passage of Obamacare, which seeks to turn America into a Western European country.” Well now, Senator, I accuse you of excessive hyperbole. I also note that …
Bah. I lost two teams I had pegged for the Elite Eight to upsets today: Kansas State lost to LaSalle and Georgetown lost to Florida Gulf Coast. Georgetown’s loss would be easier to take if I’d ever heard of its conqueror before. Apparently FGCU admitted its first student back in 1997 and now has around …