Monday, December 17, 2012
Must be a slow day in Washington
While we're on the subject of politics, Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, seems to be having a problem with his USB ports on Windows 8. Or maybe it's someone else with the same name, but I prefer to imagine that it's him.
Gotta love Justice Blackmun
Right to abortion? It's somewhere in the 14th amendment, if you squint hard enough and try not to think.
FBI raids your house without a warrant in clear violation of the 4th amendment? Stop bothering us, peon, we have too many important cases to decide to worry about trivial matters like warrants and Constitutional rights.
FBI raids your house without a warrant in clear violation of the 4th amendment? Stop bothering us, peon, we have too many important cases to decide to worry about trivial matters like warrants and Constitutional rights.
Justice Blackmun went a step further, declaring that this holding would lead to "another avalanche of new federal cases."
Labels: law, politics, prolife
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
This blog post is exponential, I think?
Maybe I've been spending too much time in math classes working with exponents and logs, but exponential seems to have taken on a meaning beyond the definition I know that ties in with repeated multiplication, or the definition I sometimes permit of something very big or fast.
I'm guessing it means something like over the top, or maybe absurd. Hyperbolic perhaps? Whatever they're trying to say, I really don't think exponential fits well there, unless they're arguing that Homeland stereotypes Arabs by portraying them as excellent mathematicians, as opposed to the Jews who are shown as poor mathematicians.
AJ, as linked to by TMN.
The racist representation of Arabs is so exponential, even for American television (and this is clearly the manifest effect of the Israeli Jewish identity of the show) that one does not know where to begin.
I'm guessing it means something like over the top, or maybe absurd. Hyperbolic perhaps? Whatever they're trying to say, I really don't think exponential fits well there, unless they're arguing that Homeland stereotypes Arabs by portraying them as excellent mathematicians, as opposed to the Jews who are shown as poor mathematicians.
AJ, as linked to by TMN.
Labels: nonplussed and friends, words
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A little fight brewing
Mark Shea notes some rather ill-advised comments that First Things makes about GKC.
I have to say, I'm rooting for Mr. Shea here. I don't even think it's possible to disagree with Chesterton?
I have to say, I'm rooting for Mr. Shea here. I don't even think it's possible to disagree with Chesterton?
Labels: catholic
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Photons and the Mass
Yuk yuk yuk.
Foolish creature. Photons don't have mass. Since Vatican II even Catholics don't have mass.The Straight Dope is always good for a laugh, or a fact.
