Law

With all the brou-ha-ha happening in Washington about the Foley scandal, you might have missed this little gem:

As you know, I don't comment a whole lot on the gay marriage issue, for a variety of reasons. However, there is an op-ed in todays New York Times by Dan Savage, about the recent court decisions in Washington State and New York, that is just amazing. Salient quotes:

I am someone who tends to think that conspiracy theories are sometimes just silly, and generally, gross oversimplifications of a very complex reality. A couple of stories from EFF that came across my e-desk that have made me think up my own conspiracy theory, and it's not pretty. Here's the basic information.

A press release by the organization called Americans United for Separation of Church and State made me ponder. The background is the recent news that a church in Pasadena, CA (All Saints Episcopal Church) is being investigated by the IRS because of an anti-war sermon. Here is their concluding paragraph:

I came across this website pretty much by accident. As I mentioned a while ago, in one of my old blog posts on intellectual property, there is a nascent movement of musicians and the like, trying to create an alternative to the recording industry. I found another website that is part of this, but unlike the other sites, this site has a broad range of genres.

Clarence Thomas intrigues me. There are a variety of reasons he intrigues me, and I'm sure that there are all sorts of reasons I should just dislike him intensely (which, actually, I do.)