January 2010
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“Peace, enlightened beings. This is what you and I were put on earth to achieve....”
– Fake Steve Jobs, on the Apple unveiling. (via gbattle)
Watch@gbattle To say nothing of the 1.6 ghz dual-core processor, discrete graphics, HDMI out and, oh yeah, keyboard.
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“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court...”
– -Justice John Paul Stevens’ dissent’s closing sentence in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission.
Great coverage from the NY Times.
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“So because I disagree on something that’s pushed down my throat, I’m...”
– -New Hampshire State Rep. Alfred Baldasaro (R) on gay rights.
I don’t understand why opponents to marriage equality so often invoke imagery of things being pushed or forced or stuffed into their mouths:
Tim Geithner Pep Talk
Mike Allen took some time off from his regular job as King of the Mole People to interview Tim Geithner.
Encouraging, but I’m bothered by what I perceive to be the Treasury Secretary’s threat that not re-nominating Bernanke would make the market crash.
“…the notion that there is no difference between an individual’s...”
– -Andrew Sullivan responding to the SOTUS decision striking down independent campaign expenditures.
Watch
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“While the benefits of these new technologies are clear - accessing data at your...”
– -Microsoft lawyer Ben Smith, on the need for Federal legislation regulating cloud computing.
I don’t think Microsoft — or anyone, for that matter — wants a law like this. I also don’t think there’s a need for such a law. There is no shortage of cloud computing service...
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Thank You, Massachusetts Politics
…for making Day care sex abuse hysteria required reading.
Apparently the worst criticism mountable against MA’s longtime attorney general and Democratic candidate for Ted Kennedy’s seat was her support of the continued imprisonment of an alleged victim of the above.
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Constitutionality of Health Insurance Mandates →
NPR ran a good piece on alleged unconstitutionality of making health insurance a requirement of citizenship.
The arguments go something like this:
The only way “good” health insurance (coverage that doesn’t exclude pre-existing conditions or include benefit caps) can be profitable is if everyone has to buy it.
But the Federal government forcing Americans to buy services from a...
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Blind students sue universities that support the... →
I am totally committed to equality of access and opportunity for blind people, but this is ridiculous. Harris Bergeron has never seemed so close to reality. The fact that the Kindle actually reads to you doesn’t seem to matter because it doesn’t voice the menus. Is it really necessary to make another class of college students buy physical textbooks instead of getting Amazon to issue an...
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A Risky Proposal →
The New Yorker has an amazingly in depth analysis of the Prop 8 challenge. Most striking to me is the opposition the suit faces from the gay rights movement itself.
“Soon after Olson and Boies filed the case, last May, some leading gay-rights organizations—among them the A.C.L.U., Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights—issued a statement condemning...
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“Republicans and conservatives are comparing Harry Reid’s comment about...”
– Ramesh Ponnuru, amazingly.
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Facebook Does Not Understand the Meaning of... →
Derek Thompson rightly unloads on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ridiculous comments about “evolving” privacy norms.
U.S. Supreme Court blocks video coverage of Prop.... →
Not surprisingly, the US Supreme Court has blocked a lower court judge’s order to stream the Proposition 8 trial on YouTube. This is a huge disappointment because it will make it that much harder to elucidate the completely meaningless arguments in favor of Prop. 8 which amount to little more than “TRADITION! RAWWWR!” with a heavy implication of “Faggots will rape your...
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