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Month: February 2011

Monday Trivia IV

February 28, 2011Burt Likko 10 Comments

What do these people all have in common? Fred Astaire, Jim Backus, Charles Bronson, Blake Edwards, Jim Henson, Bob Hope, Geronimo, Stonewall Jackson, Jack LaLanne,* Franz Lizst, Brittany Murphy, Charles Nelson Reilly, Oral Roberts, Paul Tsongas, and Harriet Tubman. (This list… Continue Reading →

Trivia

Maybe I’m Wrong But I’ve Good Company In My Wrongness (UPDATED)

February 28, 2011Burt Likko

Last week, I advanced the position here, which was called “bipolar” in another forum, that while the President ought to only very rarely determine a law to be unconstitutional, should he do so, he should not only decline to defend… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Courts, Ethics and Morality, Government, Link Love, Same-Sex Marriage

Monday Trivia III — Early!

February 26, 2011Burt Likko 12 Comments

Marc Shaiman, Leonard Bernstein, Julie Harris, James Whitmore*, James Earl Jones, Lily Tomlin, John Kander and Fred Ebb, all have a very particular thing in common. It’s really not a very bad thing to have, although I’m willing to bet… Continue Reading →

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The Meaning Of Life.

February 25, 2011Burt Likko 2 Comments

No, really. And it’s from a not otherwise very good Woody Allen movie. Sometimes I wonder why this isn’t enough for some people.

Movies, Philosophy

Why I Don’t Comment Much On My Own Posts

February 24, 2011Burt Likko

Generally, I think it’s not meet for the author of a blog post to extensively comment on his or her own post. I try and say what I have to say on a subject in the text of the post… Continue Reading →

Blog

Nothing To Worry About Here… Right?

February 23, 2011Burt Likko 22 Comments

There couldn’t be anything to worry about in President Obama’s ordering the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, could there be? After all, this is a recognition of the essential truth that there is no legally… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Same-Sex Marriage

No Monday Trivia This Week

February 22, 2011Burt Likko 4 Comments

I’ve been very busy. I’ve managed three blog posts out of about twenty ideas I’ve had. Watch for trivia next Monday.

Uncategorized

On Wisconsin

February 22, 2011Burt Likko 11 Comments

It’s actually quite simple. Wisconsin, like nearly every other state in the union, is broke. It needs to tighten its belt. Its newly-elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, ran on a platform of restricting some public employees’ collective bargaining rights, and… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, Government, Lighting Our Money On Fire, Link Love, News, Wisconsin

A Farewell To Kings

February 22, 2011Burt Likko 1 Comment

So it seems that the fires of revolution which were sparked in Tunisia, and came to full flame in Egypt, have spread to Bahrain and Libya as well. You can tell that these are serious protests because people who have… Continue Reading →

Big Brass Ones Award, News

I’d Like To Express My Astonishment

February 22, 2011Burt Likko

…That the secession of the South prior to the Civil War remains something that people not only commemorate but continue to celebrate. And by “people,” unfortunately, I mean “voters.” ,,,That  Barack Obama can propose that we increase Federal spending by… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, History, Lighting Our Money On Fire

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