I'd have posted this at TUS, but TUS is tossed for the moment, and I think I'm content to let the weblog be moribund for now, so:

Delaware Senate OKs marriage equality; state's governor immediately sign into lawJust after the Delaware Senate passed marriage-equality legislation, Gov. Jack Markell signed the bill into law ( Read more... )

grim amusements / 13 february 2012 / washington state says yea ... for now
.....I would be astonished if the anti-gay-marriage crowd fails to get enough signatures to put this onto the ballot. That said, if they do succeed, I hope the pro-gay-marriage crowd takes it into court prior to the vote on the grounds that a known hostile majority should ( Read more... )

grim amusements / 7 february 2012 / proposition 8 falls ... for the moment
...Assume you have a known four justice block of Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito against broadening the decision to allow gay marriage throughout the land. The remaining justices are Kennedy, Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsburg and Breyer. The decision is assumed to rest on what ( Read more... )

Grim Amusements / 23 January 2012 / illegal search and seizure -- apparently, the concept still exists in this country
...You know ... I'm by way of thinking that if you want to win your case, telling the Supreme Court that you have the authority (as opposed to the ability) to conduct what may be warrantless searches of the justices themselves is ( Read more... )

...The issue, as noted, is that there are works which are foreign and became public domain in the US, but were still copyrighted in other parts of the world. Congress passed legislation to re-copyright some items to bring the US into full compliance with the Berne Convention. [...] In an article at Ars Technica, one of the plaintiff lawyers says ( Read more... )

Grim Amusements / 17 January 2012 / arizona vs its hispanic population -- again...Apparently, Representative Proud has never heard of Arabic numbers. Which would explain a lot, really. But I digress, already ( Read more... )

The Histories of Bucky and Jason Todd Explained [Comic] ... honestly, I can't argue with that conclusion. Though it is arguable whether 'tis better to be a brainwashed assassin responsible for the deaths of many who gets shocked back to sanity and then knows what he's done and has to deal, or a seriously cheesed off "anti-hero" responsible for the ( Read more... )

Grim Amusements / 24 June 2011 / "New York says yea"...It will be interesting to see what the effect of this is, and how long it lasts. How long will it be before some conservative organization challenges the law in court? (At the moment, New York does not have an initiative and referendum process, although the Senate approved the draft law this ( Read more... )

Grim Amusements / 27 April 2011 / the birth certificate follies
...I will confess, at some level, I do not understand this at all ( Read more... )

grim amusements / april 11, 2011 / don't ask, don't tell ... especially about THAT
[...]that's ... kind of not how human nature works, unfortunately. Not in the short term, anyway ( Read more... )