Thursday, April 21, 2005

Roe's Birth, and Death. By David Brooks / NYT — Permalink Justice Harry Blackmun did more inadvertent damage to our democracy than any other 20th-century American. When he and his Supreme Court colleagues issued the Roe v. Wade decision, they set off a cycle of political viciousness and counter-viciousness that has poisoned public life ever since, and now threatens to destroy the Senate as we know it. Update: Discussion on this article has expanded. Read remarks from Barbara O'Brien, Edward _, Steve M., Michael Bérubé, Juan Non-Volokh, Ann Althouse, Steve @BeggingToDiffer, and Tbogg. [memeorandum] Well, now we know from DB the single reason for all the political incivility we are experiencing.  Wonder if he does reading for everyone's personal lives too or is it just the big picture stuff that comes to him so clearly in the night? 8:27:04 PM    comment [] Proverbial Zingers Further nuggets for the Toli Scrapbook... This month's zingers post covers a lot of ground. There has been a veritable effusiveness of jaundiced (and flowery - as my MIT-educated co-worker put it) prose from this joint on all sorts of topics. I hope these proverbial zingers provide a concise counterpoint to all of that. A skewed outlook on life He liked his women freshly jilted. Martin Amis - - Koranteng [Koranteng's Toli] great stuff - - also find a link to a slate.com article on John Bolton 7:48:23 PM    comment []

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