Roberts’ Roundup

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Bush hoping nomination will install Roberts’ rules of order#
Once again, President Bush has confounded his critics by doing what he said he would do. He has nominated to the Supreme Court someone he believes will not make law from the bench, but interpret laws in light of the Constitution as the Founders wrote it.

Souter in Roberts’ clothing#
After pretending to consider various women and minorities for the Supreme Court these past few weeks, President Bush decided to disappoint all the groups he had just ginned up and nominate a white male.

Calculated confusion#
Those who want to see judges who will apply the law instead of imposing their own policies face not only political obstruction to the appointment of such judges but also calculated confusion about the very words used in discussing what is at issue.

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David Koepp, who wrote the screen-play for War of the Worlds, says the Martian attackers in the film represent the American military, while the Americans being slaughtered at random represent Iraqi civilians.

That’s just ridiculous. David must have been on drugs when he wrote the screenplay. H.G. Wells wrote the original book years before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Koepp is not making sense with that analogy.

Flickr Addicts

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You know you’re a Flickr addict when…

  1. You think of icons rather than people because you only know your contacts that way.
  2. You have bought a new digital SLR after joining Flickr.
  3. Your significant other gets mad at you for spending more time with Flickr than with them.
  4. You haven’t slept decent in months, due to night after night of hanging out on Flickr.
  5. You’re still on Flickr at 05:30 in the morning…and work starts at 09:00.
  6. You see a red balloon flying around in the wind in someone’s back yard and wonder whether you should post it in “Catchy Colors” or “Crayon Box.”
  7. At work you wear your Flickr badge instead of the company’s badge.
  8. You think of reasons to apply “tagging technology” to stuff at work.
  9. You look for things to take pictures of, anything, just so you can upload something to Flickr.
  10. You join a group called Flickr Addicts.
  11. You post this list on your own blog.
  12. You grab for the camera before cleaning up the baby.

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