Nathan Moore's Thoughts
Things on My Mind
There are a few things I have wanted to comment on, but the time block necessary to do so in an intelligible fashion has been, in a word, elusive. Here’s a list of a few things to come (hopefully today, if not over the weekend).
The decisions coming out of the SCOTUS over the last two weeks have been a breath of fresh air. Count me a major fan of the Roberts court, and happy to see a return to a semblance of respect for Constitutional interpretation. As promised, more on that later, but the roll back of McCain-Feingold and the delegitimizing of race as a school districting factor are both good decisions and bode well for the next term.
The immigration debacle is just that - a debacle. A very important issue has become a political circus, with a spineless compromise bill under the big tent. Either you fix it, or you don’t. Pretending you’re fixing it is dangerous (and I’m coming at this from both the left and the right).
The iPhone is a watermark product - the price is too high for my tastes, and the hype is fun to watch, but if Apple is able to corner and control the music/phone market in one fell swoop, it’s a big deal.
Craig Biggio and Frank Thomas are the good guys of baseball. If they aren’t first ballot hall of famers, no one is (even though Frank Thomas has prolonged his career by use of the DH position). Thomas’ press conference after hitting home run 500 yesterday lays the case out well - for them both.
And the Chris Benoit murder / suicide is without a doubt, bizarre.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:06 am
As promised, more on that later, but the roll back of McCain-Feingold and the delegitimizing of race as a school districting factor are both good decisions and bode well for the next term.
Three cheers for de facto segregation!!
June 29th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Just the opposite, actually.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Please, do elaborate…I’m struggling to see how eliminating a plan to create racial diversity, won’t lead to de facto segregation?
July 1st, 2007 at 9:45 pm
The 5-4 decision told local school districts that they cannot take even modest steps to overcome residential segregation.
Justice Breyer: “You’ve got to be kidding me . . . Never in the history of the court have so few done so much so quickly.”
Justice Stevens: “Chief Justice John Roberts writes, “Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin.” The Chief Justice fails to note that it was only black schoolchildren who were so ordered; indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools. In this and other ways, the Chief Justice rewrites the history of one of this Courts most important decisions.” - Refering to Brown vs Board of Education.
Gov. George Wallace would be proud