Every time I read something worth blogging about, I keep it open in a separate Firefox tab until I get around to it. I don't always get around to it in a prompt manner, so here's some interesting reads from the past week or so, so I can close some of these tabs. Sci-Fi author […]
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh notes a decision by a California State Appeals Court upholding the free speech rights of a student newspaper at Novato High School. A trial court judge originally ruled that speech "likely to cause a violent reaction" was not protected free speech. The trial court judge was essentially enshrining […]
I've been wanting to point out this op-ed piece by one of the lawyers in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District, but haven't got around to it. For those who haven't been following the case, Tyler Chase Harper was sent to detention for wearing a T-shirt in response to the Gay, Lesbian, […]
District Court Judge John A. Houston -- a Bush 43 appointee -- ruled yesterday that it's perfectly OK to silence non-threatening religious speech on school campuses if the speech says that someone is doing wrong. Houston then relied on an earlier appeals court decision in the case to find that the school's actions didn't infringe […]
The good news is the decision came down from the Ninth Circuit -- the most overturned appeals court in the nation. The bad news is Thursday's decision in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District has the effect of silencing religious speech. If you're interested in reading the legal opinions, the majority opinion […]
Harper's magazine has decided to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to several young Marines. Not really, but that's the likely fallout from the March cover. The St. Petersburg Times reports: Marine recruits so new that their hair hasn't been cut don't sound like the best models for a story about soldiers going AWOL - […]
Some of you may recall that several months ago a student at Poway High School got pulled out of class for wearing a T-shirt with the words "I Will Not Accept What God Has Condemned" on the front and "Homosexuality Is Shameful, Romans 1:27" on the back. He wore the T-shirt the same day some […]
I'm too young to have collected voluminous memories of the late, great Bob Hope. But I certainly enjoyed watching and reading many of the tributes to the man who probably had more influence on American comedy than any other. I particularly liked this article by Doug Gamble, one of Hope's writers. Hope's own wit was […]
It's Friday, and that means that we can expect New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's latest screed against the Bush administration. Krugman reveals in his piece that the Bush administration is full of corporate or Washington insiders. Well, what administration isn't? The former secretary of the treasury under Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, was definitely an […]