Monthly Archives: June 2011

Marriage 2000: A Time Odyssey

30th
Jun. × ’11
By Roderick

The following passage (CHT Jesse Walker) from Ehrlichman’s Witness to Power: The Nixon Years, quoting Nixon on same-sex marriage in 1970 – I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far! – irresistibly reminds me of these lines toward the end of the recent Doctor Who episode [...]

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Them Poor Old Pharmaceutical Companies Need All the Help They Can Get Too

29th
Jun. × ’11
By Roderick

At Techdirt.

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No Sex Please, We’re British; No Lemonade Jokes Please, We’re American

28th
Jun. × ’11
By Roderick

Well, this is annoying: When Torchwood returns to television next month, there’ll be two different versions of every episode. Some scenes will only be in the US version, while other scenes will only be in the UK version. … Off the top of my head, there’s one somewhat racy sex scene in the third episode [...]

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It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier

28th
Jun. × ’11
By Roderick

Kevin Carson in CounterPunch.

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Them Poor Old Slaveholding Founders Need All the Help They Can Get

28th
Jun. × ’11
By Roderick

Walter Williams writes: Here’s my hypothesis about people who use slavery to trash the Founders: They have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty. Slavery is merely a convenient moral posturing tool as they try to reduce respect for our Constitution. Well, I don’t regard slavery as “merely a convenient moral posturing tool,” but yes, [...]

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His Days Like Crazy Paving

24th
Jun. × ’11
By Roderick

When you’re selling a book of poetry and you offer a sample poem as an enticement, you will presumably pick one of the better poems in the collection, not one of the worse ones. And so if the sample poem is unbelievably wretched, that would tend to bode ill for the book as a whole. [...]

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