An interesting link in this morning's NY Times:

Some small American colleges, eager to attract men to increasingly female campuses, have taken notice of how many students like Mr. Bosworth can be lured to attend by adding football teams. Officials at these colleges say football can bring in more tuition-paying students than any other course or ( Read more... )

"It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings". -- Sandra Day O'Connor (on the current political climate's degradation of the authority of the judiciary)

Wasabi with that?

Chinese demographic experts say the leadership is unlikely to abolish the one-child rule, because it is reluctant to admit that one of its signature policies was in any way a failure -particularly in view of the disastrous population boom encouraged by Mao in the 1950's.

Finally, a policy that makes sense!!!

The committee ( Read more... )

Supreme Court Geekiness under the cut

I'll have to fix it when I get home tonight, but the new layout is up! Thanks to everyone who voted! I may do a Christmas vote as well.

Today starts NaNo. So I have to find some time this evening to write.

Much to comment on re: Scalito, and some semi-personal stuff going on. All to come later today, and maybe some new icons at monstericons today or ( Read more... )

A little reassurance:

As a corporate lawyer, she gained attention not for what she said but how she listened, and for how she kept clients' names out of the news. From teh LA Times Article

Tempered with even more shakiness:

Links:
Harriet Miers on Racial & Ethnic Minorities, & Police Power

Harriet Miers actively worked with minority bar groups ( Read more... )

After reading this article and thinking a bit about many of the other posts I have seen from both Repubs and Dems. I am starting to wonder about some things.

Something about this whole thing is fishy. I smell a puppeteer getting very antsy, or even worse, becoming very confident.

From today's New York Times:

This lopsided investment in anti-abortion rhetoric has allowed Presidents Reagan, Bush and Bush to collect the votes of the anti-abortion faithful without paying much of a price among the electorate at large. But imagine what would happen if a Republican president actually honored the promise, explicit or implied, to ( Read more... )

You've actually managed to piss of more conservatives than liberals with this one.My husband and I talked about this last night. The fact that he appointed a woman is unsurprising, butI expected it to be more comforting than this. The fact that he is appointing someone so woefully unqualified in judicial matters, especially on constitutional ( Read more... )

Forgive the mind dump tonight...

Roberts. Chief justice. Rehquist dead. Supreme Court. Checkmate. Stalemate. Whatever.

( America the Beautiful - 1913 )