Year: 2016

Casual Observation

I don’t feel like Samuel Alito was picking on atheists, but I do think he’s a complete hack. At least he will never be a pharmacist. He’d be a terrible pharmacist.

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One Small Step for Justice

“A Florida jury on Monday found a former Chilean army officer liable for the 1973 torture and murder of the folk singer and political activist Victor Jara, awarding $28m in damages to his widow and daughters in one of the...

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Elizabeth Warren is Still Undefined

The fact that 40% of poll respondents tell CNN pollsters that they’ve either never heard of Elizabeth Warren or have no opinion of her is pretty sobering to this political animal. Maybe that’s why Donald Trump is...

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The GOP’s Shameless Zika Bill

As I sit here on my patio after a long night of rain, I’m trying not to get too close to the citronella candle because it has a warning label that advises me that California has determined that breathing its fumes is...

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Casual Observation

According to Supreme Court watchers Lee Epstein of Washington University in St. Louis and Kevin Quinn of the University of California-Berkeley, Sonia Sotomayor now ranks as the most liberal Justice, taking over that role from...

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