- Reposted from my girlfriend's blog, Radioactive Quill:
So apparently you can be arrested for not appreciating it when a police officer shows up at your house and demands proof that you live there.
Provided you're a Black man, of course. I rather suspect that very few police officers would have the stones to do this to a white man.
Here is the statement by Professor Gates' lawyer. I'm really not sure why he didn't include a threat along the lines of, "I'm going to sue the city for $100 million." I would.
- Reposted from a friend's facebook page, a UF law student:
It's truly amazing that the erosion of racial and sexual bigotry is being accompanied by a revival of religious bigotry. Do people have an innate need to exclude and suppress the "other" that isn't being met now that racism and sexism have become fringe?
If we're discussing founders' intent, why did we include guarantees of religious equality in the First Amendment, while we didn't get around to race until the Fourteenth, or sex until the Nineteenth?
If we're discussing founders' intent, why did we include guarantees of religious equality in the First Amendment, while we didn't get around to race until the Fourteenth, or sex until the Nineteenth?
- A congressman from a district not far from where I live is a crazy birther.
- Good news: Obama is turning up the heat on obstructionist Democrats.
- Molecular developmental biology!
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