over the cliff, onto the rocks.: Caging your own voters is just so....

Friday, August 10, 2007

Caging your own voters is just so....

gauche.

Yeah, i know, it's not really caging, but still....

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9 comments:

Steve Bates said...: And the elderly father was a lifelong Democrat. Yeah, I'd say that constituted an "irregularity" in his hypothetical GOP membership! (Pardon me while I LMFAO.); Friday, August 10, 2007 10:16:00 PM
hipparchia said...: consider yourself pardoned; Friday, August 10, 2007 10:45:00 PM
Keifus said...: Were you in a properly fenced free speech zone when you wrote that? (Damned uppity voters.)

K

hyowb: howdy, boyo.; Monday, August 13, 2007 6:44:00 AM
hipparchia said...: damn, i'm back to being a boy again.

properly fenced free speech zones is about what it's coming down to these days. i revisited [at slate? don't remember] an article comparing the bong hits 4 jesus and the [what was it? campaign ads?] paid speech is free speech supreme court decisions last night. ugh.; Monday, August 13, 2007 5:22:00 PM
Keifus said...: Haven't read the new opinions yet, but it seems consistent with what the court has said for the past thrity-odd years. (At least so far as what I've read, and as affirmed when I asked someone, possibly you.) What a country!

K

wqdoy: qweschun the doyen(ne); Tuesday, August 14, 2007 6:20:00 AM
hipparchia said...: qweschun: do you... ?

30 years? i never paid a lick of attention to the supreme court until the harriet miers flap, so it must have been somebody else you were talking to.; Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:26:00 PM
Keifus said...: Last year, I had a fun idea for a project. I'd go through Wikipedia's notable supreme court cases, and skim the opinions for "partisanship" (left or right) and "audacity" (5/4 decisions would be audacious, 9/0 would not be.) Was going to plot these on a chart (thinking it would reveal a correlation with crazy and right). Problem was that it was much too subjective (shoulda been obvious going in), and way, way too boring. Read a handful of older opinions though.

I feel bad that I never comment about your kittens. They're very cute. We got one a month or two ago, and I've intended to blog about that when in the right mood. I think it's my online imperative.

gxrjzz: Gen-Xers' jazz. (whatever.); Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:31:00 AM
hipparchia said...: jaded grizzled Xers

or... great minds and all that jazz, which might be more appropriate here. the project i've been kicking around is following how often and on what cases the 5 catholics end up on one side and the 4 non-catholics end up on the other.

[as in... ]; Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:04:00 PM
hipparchia said...: ps. you're not required to comment on my kittens, but you may have to blog about yours.; Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:05:00 PM