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Month: December 2008

Casting The Baroque Cycle

December 31, 2008Burt Likko 2 Comments

If I were going to produce a movie — more like an HBO mini-series, I should think — based on Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle, here’s some ideas for who I’d like to cast (if money were not much of… Continue Reading →

Books, Interesting Reading, Movies

Harry Reid Just Got Put In Check

December 31, 2008Burt Likko

I think the answer is “no.” Roland Burris was appointed to the U.S. Senate today by embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. How much he paid for this honor is yet to be determined (Blagojevich, alone of all the people paying… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Domestic Politics

New Year’s Predictions

December 31, 2008Burt Likko

We’ll revisit this post in a year. Here are some things that I will be looking for in 2009: The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. A human being will be cloned. There will… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Britain, California, Domestic Politics, Industry and Commerce, International Politics, Iran, Israel, Law, Movies, Pakistan, Religion, Science, Sports

A Lesson In Discrimination Law

December 30, 2008Burt Likko 3 Comments

Howard Friedman has found a terrific set of twinned cases that makes extraordinarily clear the reason why some of the scare advertisements used in favor of Proposition 8 — “If we have gay marriage, churches are going to be sued”… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Law, Link Love, Same-Sex Marriage

Obama’s Religious Inauguration

December 30, 2008Burt Likko

Some of you Readers may be surprised at this opinion coming from me. But here it is. If Barack Obama wants to take his oath as President and add on the words “So help me God,” I’m totally cool with… Continue Reading →

Atheism, Barack Obama, Constitutional Law, Domestic Politics, History, Religion

The Pledge

December 30, 2008Burt Likko 1 Comment

My fellow unbelievers, if you didn’t like it when the Republicans in power used you as whipping boys, you’re not going to like it when the Democrats in power do the same thing. And they are not only able, but… Continue Reading →

2008 Election, Atheism, Domestic Politics, Religion

Breakup Of United States Imminent

December 30, 2008Burt Likko

Six countries where before there was one? That’s what a Russian political scientist says is a little bit more likely than not to happen in the next twenty-four months. My initial reaction is, “This guy doesn’t understand much about American… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, History, Interesting Reading, International Politics, Link Love, Russia

Is Caroline Kennedy Qualified To Be A United States Senator?

December 30, 2008Burt Likko 1 Comment

Apparently, 52% of Americans think so. They are, of course, correct. Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution says: “No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, News

Calling Captain Obvious

December 29, 2008Burt Likko

Guess what? “Virginity pledges,” in which teenagers vow to not engage in sex until they are married, do not work. Teenagers who take such pledges are just as likely to engage in premarital sex than those who do not. Teenagers… Continue Reading →

News, Sex

Gaza Attacks

December 29, 2008Burt Likko 2 Comments

A depressingly-familiary story — with the breaking of the southern cease-fire by the Gaza faction of Hamas, Israel has responded by shelling locations where the Hamas attackers have been shooting rockets over the border. Innocent civilians have died on both… Continue Reading →

Ethics and Morality, Israel, News

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