Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I haven’t looked at details yet, but my first instinct is to oppose this.
I don’t have any kind of plan in mind, unfortunately, to bring Tennessee nursing homes up to a reasonable standard for resident’s comfort, well-being, and medical needs. But, I don’t think the answer is to take away what shreds of responsibility [...]

Tortured an innocent cab driver to death? Best just to forget about it.

via One Good Move,
A Pause from Death… A longish quote, emphasis mine:
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Tuesday for a global moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution was nonbinding; its symbolic weight made barely a ripple in the news ocean of the United States, where governments’ right to kill a killer is enshrined [...]

Everyone knows you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theatre, and you shouldn’t.
Everyone knows you can yell “smoking gun mushroom cloud” on the Tee Vee, but you shouldn’t.
The New England Journal of Medicine examines a somewhat more difficult situation. Can you put Dorothy Hamill on ice skates and sell that drug (one of [...]

If this evidence had been presented in the first place, Mr. Workman wouldn’t be sitting back here.
And he wouldn’t have been killed last night by you and me. The write-up is here, along with a video made well before the killing.
I didn’t even know this killing was on the way. I guess I had [...]

Dave has the write-up. Sorry for the late-coming link.

The reason I rarely post about stuff like this is that so many people write about these things with the attitude that they should justify a show-down at high noon. That because of these things, a hard-line approach, with the tacit hope for military aggression, is eminently justified. I don’t wish to be [...]

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said opponents of the ban “have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases.” (-link
I’m still mulling this over. I won’t jump out there and say I’m smarter than the Supreme Court, that the decision was wrong. But it [...]

Here. It’s not quite an egalitarian view, but it shows that even some hard-core rightwingers have a spark of conscience that outshines the propensity to tread on the backs of gay people. Nice showing, guys.

Libby’s guilty. I don’t know that there was any real doubt of it. Now what? I’m hearing that the maximum penalty is 30 years in jail & $1m in fines? Of course Libby won’t get that, even assuming appeals are unsuccessful & assuming no pardon. But, just the possibility of [...]