Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit (NY Times) Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. Is there anyone — other than the corporations and lobbyists, of course — who likes this …
I can be a pretty compulsive photographer — not a professional by any definition, but I do enjoy shooting…perhaps a bit too much. (When I recently told a friend that I shot about 950 photos on our weeklong Disney vacation, he commented “I don’t think my parents took 950 photos of my entire childhood.”) But unlike …
Hummer Production to End (NY Times): GM will halt Hummer production at its Louisiana plant until sale of the brand to a Chinese company is completed. I loved this reader comment: Can’t wait to see a Chinese-made Hummer with a big ol’ American flag slapped on the back window.
A merry Krampus to you and yours! Hope you’re not on the naughty list…
It might be the remaining NyQuil in my system clouding my judgement, but this video was the funniest thing I’ve seen in years:
Christoph Niemann uses leaves to illustrate ideas. (via kottke)
This graph that shows that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. As one person commented, “Looks like the debate will solve itself (mostly) in 20 years or so.” One can only hope… Somewhat strange that a couple of the most supportive states (Maine and California) have recently repealed gay marriage …
Joe Posnanski wrote a good post about the Yankees payroll. It’s something all of us non-Yankees fans know and complain about, but even as a fan of the high-spending Red Sox I can’t help but agree when he writes “You have one team (and only one team) playing the video game on cheat-mode.” The following …
There’s a cemetery down a street that we really enjoy visiting. It’s old, picturesque, and has some great old trees. It’s very peaceful and relaxing to stroll around or just hang out under them. (Sidenote: we might accidentally be raising some “odd” kids who like cemeteries: often when we drive by one, they often exclaim …