You know, I seem to remember months ago wondering how in the world Prop 8 wasn’t in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today a San Francisco judge ruled that Prop 8 was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Didn’t see THAT coming.
Just imagine: All we need now is for a pair of same sex anchor babies to get married and the far right’s collective head will explode.
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Because apparently we’re losing sight of this whole “Huddled masses yearning to be free” thing.
We’ve got Arizona going rogue, targeting people who–let’s face it–don’t look like they should be here. There’s a lunatic ex-governor from Alaska who is challenging the male anatomy of the president of the United States because he’s more concerned about, y’know, following his oath to uphold the Constitution with its pesky illegal search-and-seizure laws than he is about allowing states to grill people based on the color of their skin (even though they claim that’s not what they’re doing, except we all know it is.) And now there’s a movement afoot to try and repeal the Fourteenth Amendment so that people who are born here aren’t necessarily Americans, because (so the claims go) people are coming here specifically to pop out children who will become American citizens.
I mean, considering how many people around the world are being taught that America sucks, you’d think we’d be flattered that people would want to come here seeking better lives for themselves.
So if this keeps up, then yeah, let’s just auction off Lady Liberty, because if we’re not going to attend to the principles she represents, then isn’t it kind of false advertising having her there? At the very least, perhaps we should redesign her so that rather than holding aloft a torch, instead she has a middle finger extended to greet those huddled masses yearning to be deported back whence they came.
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My little girl has slain her first dragon.
Caroline, entirely on her own, played through “Dragon’s Lair” on Kathleen’s iPad. Okay, not entirely. She needed me to navigate the battle against the Chessboard Knight. Other than that, it was all her. She went all the way through to the Lair, slew the dragon and saved the princess.
She has displayed no interest thus far in taking on “Space Ace.”
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With the latest court rulings once again going against Todd, I an once more struck by how unnecessary this all is. All Todd needed to do was keep his initial promises to Neil. In a company that was founded on the basis of honoring creator rights, I would have to say–to use “Dark Tower” Gunslinger parlance–that Todd McFarlane has forgotten the face of his father.
What I found interesting, though, was the judge’s commentary on whether a subsequent Spawn was derivative of Neil’s work:
“If defendant really wanted to differentiate the new Hellspawn, why not make him a Portugese explorer in the 16th century; an officer of the royal Navy in the 18th century, an idealistic recruit of Simon Bolivar in the 19th century, a companion of Odysseus on his voyages, a Roman gladiator, a younger brother of Emperor Nakamikado in the early 18th century, a Spanish conquistador, an aristocrat in the Qing dynasty, an American Indian warrior or a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I? It seems far more than coincidence that Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn is a knight from the same century as Medieval (Gaiman) Spawn.”
Am I the only one who thinks those are some REALLY good ideas? When all this is over, Todd may want to seriously consider hiring the judge to develop characters for him. He just better be dámņëd sure to pay her.
And for anyone who thinks that this posting is entirely too favorable to Gaiman, and that I’m giving him a free pass in all this, well…uhm…
Neil…get a haircut.
Seriously. Check out the picture (along with the detailed coverage) at Maggie Thompson’s blog.
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So the same pundits who attack Obama for allegedly being standoffish and out of touch with rank and file Americans are attacking him for appearing on “The View,” which is arguably the ultimate in populist fare and adored by millions of rank and file Americans. Whereas if “The View” had invited him and Obama had declined on the basis that it was too undignified a forum for a sitting president, the conservative pundits would have been all over it, declaring that he was a snob who felt he was too important to be on a show that he had no trouble visiting when he was running for office.
One is left to wonder if there’s anything the guy could do that wouldn’t draw fire.
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Jason Bay was put on the 15-day disabled list.
Who had July 30th?
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First: Back in March, in regards to “Psych,” I wrote:
I happened to stumble over the information that Dule Hill is an accomplished tap dancer. They should totally work that into an episode next season.
Last week’s episode, “Feet Don’t Kill Me Now” was a showcase for Dule Hill’s tap dancing skills.
Second: Back in January, I began “Bay Watch” in which we endeavored to predict when (not if) Jason Bay would wind up on the DL, because the Mets are just that snake bit.
Last week, Bay plowed into a wall catching a fly and concussed himself. They’re now looking at putting him on the DL.
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