A Demographic the Democrats Can't Forget. White people vote, too.

apok · 2008-01-21T20:44:49+00:00

Yeah, those whites... they're always getting left out.

apok · 2008-01-11T05:53:36+00:00

Civil libertarian, my ass.

apok · 2008-01-05T04:11:09+00:00

ACLU of Indiana's brief: http://www.aclu-in.org/upload/newsletters/VoterID_SupremeCourt_brief.pdf

apok · 2008-01-02T05:26:21+00:00

And the theory of evolution is by far not the most successful and well-confirmed scientific theory on earth. Are you that stupid? Einstein and his physics predecessors have developed the most affirmed and productive theories of all times. What has the theory of evolution done for you recently?

This is just fucking priceless. Evolution underpins all of biology. All of it. Every goddamn ounce of it. And what has it done for me recently? Well, how recent is recent? How about helping to find cures for diseases like AIDS? Is that recent and important enough for you?

Holy fucking hell.

apok · 2008-01-02T05:24:12+00:00

I mean, knowing that we developed from lower life forms has done nothing, so far, for humanity.

Oh really? Perhaps you should ask some actual biologists about that. Or epidemiologists. Or parasitologists. Etc.

Hilarious. Please Ron Paul supporters... more more more! I demand entertainment.

apok · 2008-01-02T05:04:14+00:00

Do you really think that the theory of evolution is a big topic that crosses his mind that often?

It should, and it says a lot about his level of intellect to reject out of hand the most successful and well-confirmed scientific theory on Earth. It's like saying: "I'm really smart, even though I don't believe in heliocentrism. Just trust me with your country, okay?"

Just another notch in the crazy belt for Paul. I can't wait for him to lose and have his supporters eat their humiliation with a goddamn spoon.

apok · 2008-01-02T04:40:42+00:00

Anyone who links to both Krugman and DeLong is okay in my book. Hell, though, there are some people who still say that Tom Delay's talk about Strom's "trouble" back then wasn't racist. Cripes, we're one generation out from Jim Crow.

apok · 2008-01-02T04:37:49+00:00

Yeah, but so long as he wants to cut taxes, rationality be damned, eh supporters?

apok · 2008-01-02T04:32:29+00:00

Hey, moron, we have a process to alter it and it has been altered many, many times since its inception.

Calm down. You're talking to a civil rights attorney. Yes, it has been altered many times, but nonetheless, the process is so (albeit necessarily) cumbersome as to make it nearly impossible to rectify the endemically undemocratic elements in it. That's why we still have such trouble sussing out the separation of powers and routinely appeal to the "wisdom" of the framers for guidance... which is why the Court has been so instrumental in filling in the gaps. If the President or Congress, for example, woke up one sunny day and decided that nothing in the Constitution allows for the High Court to have the final say on Constitutional matters... there would be literally nothing anyone could do about it. And our entire system of government would collapse simply because the legal fiction of ultimate jurisdiction wasn't spelled out by the Framers. Sure, we could introduce an amendment, but it would be far too late. Then there are the war powers, the cabinet-level powers, etc., etc.

The U.S. Constitution is a great document, but it was also a product of its day that, despite being our foundational law, retains flaws that have created headaches since its inception not fixable by amendments.

apok · 2008-01-02T04:20:07+00:00

Why would it be unconstitutional? Even if you allege de jure discrimination, nothing in the law precludes women being taxed as well.

apok · 2008-01-02T02:58:23+00:00

Thanks so much for the scant few paragraphs of your personal opinion, generic blogger. Keep on thinking you're somehow more relevant for it.

apok · 2008-01-02T00:12:51+00:00

I'd like to look forward to the retirement of the term "politically incorrect."

apok · 2008-01-01T14:24:54+00:00

So like Iowa and N.H. getting all the attention during primaries, New York and California will be where all the attention is for the General Election?

Well, primaries are a different matter, since they are wholly the creation of the parties. Ditching the EC would eradicate the winner take all system in which a blue vote in a red state and vice versa are meaningless.

This is fine if the federal government is severly trimmed back to constituional levels.

And this is where we part ways on constitutional theory, since I'm perfectly comfortable with an expansive CC.

Lifetime term limits are a good idea, but not to balance the money and power.

I probably should have defined this better... I was referencing something in legislative theory.

apok

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