I couldn't resist you, I'm not deaf dumb and blind

[wombat_socho]

Do people like this student even realize how bigoted they sound? Makes me wonder how long we'll have to wait for a new Test Act that also bars evangelicals -or people who look and sound like evangelicals- from office. Judging from the confirmation hearings for Justice Alito last year, some people evidently think there's one in effect already.

Tonight I'll probably be working on my apazine for this weekend's StippleAPA, which as usual I've done absolutely nothing with in the last six weeks since Arcana. I did a little background work for Blood Red Skies today which should make writing the battle scenes in the middle chapters a lot easier, but I'm dubious about whether I'll actually get any actual writing done.

As for the weekend, aside from the Stipple collation, a stop by the library to pick up the new David Drake novel Some Golden Harbor (one of the Lieutenant Leary series, featuring the most lethal librarian in the universe) and a programming meeting with thaadd sometime Sunday, I don't have any plans, because those usually require money, and that's going to be scarce for a while.

Comments

[digex.livejournal.com]

to one of wombats points, it is a GOOD THING that states are able to for the
most part do what they want - federalism is GOOD. I know that it is a pain
in the ass sometimes when states all have different rules, and that if there was
just a federal rule than it would all be the same... with the states free to do their
own things, then you (the citizen) are free to vore with your feet. Don't like the
way that MA limits your ability to get a permit to carry a conceiled weapon? If it
means that much to you, at least you have the OPTION to vore with your feet - move
to a state that is a SHALL ISSUE state and bingo you have what you wanted.

also, states can be the experimental grounds - you can try something on a pretty big
basis, but not nationwide, like changed to various social services, and if it works then
roll it out to the rest of the country, or if it sucks, kill it quiety. Yes, it would be
"so much better" if the feds would make it uniform, but only if they make what YOU
want uniform. I will go with 50 tries to roll my dave against government interference
rather that one roll for the whole game.

doug

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

This is the way the system was set up, and the further we get away from that (whether by Federal laws or Federal judges' fiat) the more fucked up things get. It took fifty years to even begin reversing some of the crap that came with the New Deal, and it'll probably take until at least 2033 for us to weed out the most pernicious socialist aspects of it.