Somehow, on Monday, the Supreme Court resisted the temptation to teach us that the Environmental Protection Agency is unconstitutional because a lot of people in Philadelphia got cholera from bad water back in 1789. (The nightmare that is West Virginia v. EPA is coming, though. Have no fear. Or have lots of fear, now that I think about it.) But it was a pretty good day for theocracy. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, by the 6-3 vote that was so carefully purchased with dark money and so carefully engineered by Mitch McConnell, the Court sided with a football coach named Joseph Kennedy who used to have his team meet at midfield for a postgame exercise in what the Court said Monday was "quiet personal prayer."
Somehow, on Monday, the Supreme Court resisted the temptation to teach us that the Environmental Protection Agency is unconstitutional because a lot of people in Philadelphia got cholera from bad water back in 1789. (The nightmare that is West Virginia v. EPA is coming, though. Have no fear. Or have lots of fear, now that I think about it.) But it was a pretty good day for theocracy. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, by the 6-3 vote that was so carefully purchased with dark money and so carefully engineered by Mitch McConnell, the Court sided with a football coach named Joseph Kennedy who used to have his team meet at midfield for a postgame exercise in what the Court said Monday was "quiet personal prayer." |
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'Tis the season for shopping gifts on major sale, courtesy of Amazon. |
| Made for adventure, the brand's All-Terrain apparel is currently marked down at Huckberry. |
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A guy at work recently asked why I'm Christian. It's not something I am particularly vocal about, but it's also not something I'm not vocal about, you know? In some ways, I think of it as doing improv or supporting the Patriots: If you talk about it in public, get ready for eyes to roll. But I'd been trained for moments like this. It's been years since I've considered myself evangelical, but the indoctrination is hard to shake. The party line is that the only way to the afterlife is through Jesus, and the only way to Jesus? Well, it could be through me. |
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Episode 1 delivers a major time jump, the return of a fallen host, and a new (!) Evan Rachel Wood-played character. |
| In 1968, when Stanley Booth sought out the King, Elvis was a husband and father, his pelvis calmer, and sideburns shorter—but he found absolutely no change of heart. |
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Can folks please stop referring to the decision in Griswold v. Connecticut as having been "about contraception"? Griswold confirmed the existence of a right to privacy within the Constitution. That's everything. It's about marriage. It's about sex. It's about what we read. It's about how we communicate with each other. It's about the limits to search and seizure. It's about medical records and genetic information. It's about libraries and the internet. It's about what we learn and how we learn it. It's all tied in together in a fervent prayer to keep us all safe from, as Thomas Jefferson put it, "every form of tyranny over the mind of man." |
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