Another Assist From The Second Greatest Basketball Player Of All Time
Partisanship doesn’t allow me to call Earvin “Magic” Johnson the greatest basketball player of all time, but he certainly was the most unique talent of his day....
Read MoreSame-Sex Marriage Bans Violate the Equal Protection Clause. End of Story.
***My latest for RH Reality Check was published yesterday. Read the full post here. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the sort of...
Read MoreAn Easter Benediction
There’s a funny exchange in Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man in which Stephen Dedalus explains that he’s lost his faith. When one of Stephen’s friends asks if...
Read MoreYour Friday Clash Song: We Will Teach Our Twisted Speech To The Young Believers …
If there’s one Clash song that encapsulates the band’s true manifesto, it has to be “Clampdown” from London Calling (1979). This is a great live version from...
Read MoreRemember, These Are The “Smart” Guys
You know that Supreme Court Justices like Antonin Scalia and John Roberts are intellectual giants, because their right-wing groupies constantly tell us so. And, of...
Read MoreAn Equal Protection Primer For Supreme Court Justices Who May Be Confused
Speaking of marriage, my poor, long suffering wife had to endure yet another middle-aged-lawyer diatribe last night when a local news broadcast ran a brief report on...
Read MoreWhat Marriage Is, And What It’s Not
With the Supreme Court taking on two major cases involving marriage equality this week, it might be useful to consider what marriage really is – and what it’s not...
Read MoreSCOTUS Takes On Marriage Equality [updated]
It’s a big week for gay rights. Today, SCOTUS is hearing arguments on Prop. 8 and tomorrow, SCOTUS is hearing arguments on DOMA (the Defense of Marriage...
Read MoreGlenn Greenwald’s Portman/Obama Comparison on Marriage Equality is Crap
This fucking guy. It’s rather amusing to watch Glenn Greenwald attempt, yet again, to insinuate that President Obama is no different than a Republican. In a...
Read MoreMN House and Senate Committees Do the Right Thing in Moving Towards Equality
Yesterday was a triumphant day in Minnesota for marriage equality. Committees in both the House and the Senate approved marriage equality bills. The Minnesota Senate...
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