So Amazon has opened up an app store — specifically, an app store for Android phones. It opened today. You can see it here. It's very convenient. And it you don't see it, it's because Apple is suing, claiming they own the phase "app store". Jerks.
Breaking: Obama Administrations Declares DOMA Unconstitutional And Will Not Defend It
TPM: The Obama Justice Department has decided that part of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and will not defend it in court. "After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more … Read More
Texting In The Mall Update
Several days ago, I posted a Youtube video showing a girl who was texting while in a mall, thus toppling into a fountain. She's now suing the mall: The video has received more than 1.5 million views since it went viral on YouTube last week. The woman in the video, Cathy Cruz Marrero, doesn't think the video is very funny. … Read More
And Now Back To Health Care…
Well, some shooting aside, the new Congress is back in session and rarin' to go. First on the agenda, repealing all the progress mad in health care. Now, of course, the ability of the Republicans to do this is limited. After all, Obama isn't going to sign a bill (even assuming a bill passes both houses) that guts his health … Read More
Joe Scarborough Has Some Words For Palin and Beck
We get it, Sarah Palin. You’re not morally culpable for the tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz. All of us around the “Morning Joe” table agree, even if we were stunned that you would whine about yourself on Facebook as a shattered family prepared to bury their 9-year-old girl. The same goes for you, Glenn Beck. You’ve attacked your political opponents … Read More
Is There Violent Rhetoric On Both Sides?
Look, let's get something clear. This Jared creep didn't shoot Rep. Giffords and dozens of others because of something that Sarah Palin said, or because of some literature which placed a gun target over Gifford's district. He did it because he was a nut job. I don't think any serious critic on the left is making that assertion that … Read More
Eliminationist Rhetoric
The right wing is very upset that the left is "using" the Tucson shootings to point out the violent rhetoric of the right, and how it leads deranged people to do just what Jared Lee Loughner did. "It's not fair" cries the right. And I say "rubbish". What we have here is an attempted assassination of a politician by an insane crank … Read More
Man With The Golden Voice
Yeah, yeah. Homeless man has a good radio voice, and in a matter of days, becomes celebrity. Blah blah blah. Warm feel good story. Oh, here are his mug shots, America. They're from his many arrests and convictions for theft, robbery, escape, forgery, and drug possession. No, but seriously. I hope he can keep it on the straight and low this … Read More
Theodore Olson Rocks
I happen to be listening to C-SPAN's live coverage of the oral arguments in Perry v. Schwartzenagger (the "California Prop 18/Gay marriage" case), and I have to say that listening to (conservative) appellate lawyer Ted Olson ply his craft…. it's amazing. He's getting hard questions and he's responding like the legal equivalent of Michael Jordan. I'm glad he's on the … Read More
Remains Found
I haven't posted about this story — it's too depressing. But now maybe that her remains appear to have been found (and we all knew it would end up that way), focus can go elsewhere: HICKORY, N.C. – Investigators said Friday they believe they have found the remains of a disabled North Carolina girl who was reported missing about a month … Read More
Fifth Circuit Fines Cheerleader For Not Cheering For Her Sexual Harassers
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, one of the most right-wing courts in the country, sanctioned a former high school cheerleader because she brought a lawsuit claiming that she shouldn’t be required to cheer for her alleged rapist: The former cheerleader and her family are appealing the ruling by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which … Read More
Quote Of The Day
"Many of us who understand the law are scratching our heads this morning, laughing so we don't cry… I would like to see Oklahoma politicians explain if this means that the courts can no longer consider the Ten Commandments. Isn't that a precept of another culture and another nation? The result of this is that judges aren't going to know … Read More
Has Timothy McVeigh Become The Soul Of The GOP?
You would think so, sometimes: WASHINGTON – Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership. In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table." … Read More
Sucks To Be Clarence Thomas
Imagine what it must be like to be Clarence Thomas right now. As opposed to 19 years ago. Nineteen years ago, Anita Hill, an employee of yours, testifies at your Senate confirmation hearings that you would make all kinds of off-color remarks when you were head of the EEOC. Stuff like public hairs on Coke cans. And obsession with porno. … Read More
Olive Branch Fail
From CNN: Anita Hill, whose accusations of sexual harassment almost derailed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ high court nomination, has no plans to apologize for the charges she made nearly two decades ago. The response from Hill, now a law professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, comes after a message left for her over the weekend by Thomas’ wife, Virginia, … Read More