She was the Dean of Harvard Law School. That means she's an academic and also smarter than 99.99999% of the population where the law is concerned. She almost certainly knows more about the law, constitutional and otherwise than many of the sitting justices.

Its a tragedy that a post this insightful only has two mod points.

This.

How the hell that happened is a different question. Why rednecks (many of whom are flat earthers) are even on the internet is a better question.

Your hackery gets modded as insightful? Really?

blah blah blah comparing Obama to a cult figure blah blah blah

What a load. Its embarrassing how stupid the people on this site are.

The linked blog suggests this will be a wonderful opportunity to obstruct getting anything else done. The presumption is, there is nothing they will agree with, their will be no common ground and they want none.

These attitudes are bad for the country. I may not like what Obama does concerning IP law (I think the whole concept of IP is a flawed construction), but other stuff needs to get done and doing nothing is fairly destructive.

Wow...the Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarians live here on Slashdot.

Sure you might say that. But I would suggest you're just taking a very reticular view of what is in essence really a fabrege egg.

I like what you've said here. Invoking fractalness seems more appropriate than claiming any relationship to hypertext, which is a bit more of an eccentric claim.

There was dualism represented by white and black very early in the series. In one of the first few episodes of Season 1, Lockes eyes are one black, and one white.

That said, I think the writers had no idea about where it was going and lied about this fact. There are still things to like about the show, and I'm a big fan of the current head writer (BKV) so hopefully some sort of satisfying conclusion will result in these final few episodes.

This is perhaps too harsh. XKCD is sometimes funny and sometimes insightful. Sometimes its not. Randall seems to have become more taken with himself over time which is a bad thing, because the art is brilliant if its a non-artist expressing himself the only way he knows how, OTOH its terrible if its from someone who thinks they are a gift to the art world.

PA used to be funnier and they do phone it in a lot of the time now, but they at least try to do some other things and take it in artistic directions that interest them, which I can respect.

I will say I've been reading qwantz for as long as those other two, and it is still funny, although it doesn't really evolve as a comic. <_< OK...that pun was terrible.

Companies that treat their employees well don't have unions...SHOCKER!

If every company out there treated their employees that well, there wouldn't be a need for unions. No one said they are the be all end all, but RJ Reynolds isn't enough to sustain the middle class all by itself.

Free speech is about being able to get your message out against the government. To say that "copyright trumps free speech" is exactly wrong. Where copyright is counter to free political speech, copyright gives way.

And Freedom of Religion means you get to fly planes into buildings, right? There are pragmatic constraints on rights. To suggest otherwise means you're either very stupid or a child. What's more disappointing is that you were modded up.

Good liberalism supports totally free speech: freedom of speech, freedom of expression. For supposed "liberal" artists to get upset when their works are used as free speech is hypocritical.

Good conservativism teaches that freedom of expression and specifically music (more specifically rock music) is a tool of the devil. For supposed "conservative" politicians to play Don Henley is hypocritical.

But no, the Right is lauded for appropriating culture, the Left is criticized for being pragmatic, and drivel like this gets upvoted. Sad world.

Except cops are busting people who have a glass of wine with their kids, they're busting rampant parties where 15 year olds are disturbing the neighborhood, getting into fights, and date raping each other (and no, I don't just mean statutory).

Man, I remember when Slashdot's IQ wasn't in the single digits. Ah for the good ol' days.

Why does this get modded as insightful? You're the opposite of insightful. You're sophmoric.

Youths smoking does increase when there are no laws against it. And then they get addicted, and their life expectancy loses 20 years.

You believe in the moon...haha sucker! They've pulled the wool over your eyes entirely...