Thursday, June 26, 2003

A pioneer is gone No, we're not talking about Strom Thurmond.  A more benign Carolina tradition has, sadly, departed from among us.  The Nando Times, the earliest and for many years the best online news service, offered by the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer, has closed its doors after nine years of operation. It says that its content will still be offered through the web sites of other newspapers in the McClatchy family, but the online world will never be the same without Nando.  11:37:37 PM     The cooing Court One day I will make a long list of all of the belittling verbs found in Justice Scalia's opinions.  Today's comes from his dissent in Lawrence: If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is no legitimate state interest, for purposes of proscribing that conduct, and if, as the Court coos (casting aside all pretense of neutrality), "[w]hen sexuality finds overt expression in intimate conduct with another person, the conduct can be but one element in a personal bond that is more enduring," what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising "[t]he liberty protected by the Constitution?" 6:50:42 PM

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