REPUBLICAN MADNESS CONTINUES
WHEN FUTURE HISTORIANS write The Decline and Fall of the United States, Republican names like Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, John G. Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Neil M. Gorsuch, … Continue reading
THOUGHTS ON ORIGINALISM PART 2
YESTERDAY WE DEFINED “ORIGINALISM” and began exploring its various interpretations of our Constitution’s Second Amendment’s “right to bear Arms.” Today in Part 2, New York University’s Professor Marcia Pally exposes … Continue reading
THOUGHTS ON ORIGINALISM PART 1
“ORIGINALISM” IS DEFINED AS “the theory of interpreting legal texts holding that a text in law, especially the U.S. Constitution, should be interpreted as it was understood at the time of its adoption. The original meaning … Continue reading
CAN YOU WHISPER ME NOW?
“STAND WITH YOUR EAR UP AGAINST THE TILE WORK in the domed intersection of walkways on the lower floor of Grand Central Terminal,” Atlas Obscura describes, “and you’ll discover a … Continue reading
RENOVATING MICHIGAN CENTRAL
A DETROIT BUILDING EVERY BIT AS ICONIC as New York City’s Grand Central is humming again. Today’s rejuvenated Michigan Central will be more than a railroad station. As described in … Continue reading
(NON-POLITICAL) PARTY LINES AND OTHER TELEPHONIC CURIOSITIES PART 2
YESTERDAY’S PHONE ACTIVITIES WERE local calls with the likes of Lum and Abner and Fibber McGee and Molly. Telephone operators played important (if sometimes unspoken) roles. Today in Part 2 … Continue reading
(NON-POLITICAL) PARTY LINES AND OTHER TELEPHONIC CURIOSITIES PART 1
MY ATTRACTION TO SIRIUSXM “RadioClassics” offers me regular encounters with telephonic curiosities long gone in these days of smart phones. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are … Continue reading
A PLEA FOR SCIENTOCRACY
IMAGINE GOVERNMENT ADOPTING SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES of observation, measurement, experiment, and refinement of hypotheses. Instead we have hypocritical jackasses following whatever conspiracy theories happen to come to what passes for mind. … Continue reading
THE BONAPARTE/WALEWSKA FLING (THE FLICK, NOT REAL LIFE)
IT’S GENERALLY ACCEPTED THAT NAPOLEON BONAPARTE fooled around. Wikipedia notes in an extensively documented entry, “Napoleon acknowledged one illegitimate son: Charles Léon (1806–1881) by Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne. Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868), the son of … Continue reading
