James Dobson, building a bridge to the 18th century. He's railing against the evils of Marbury v. Madison, the 1803 case that established the concept of judicial review of the constitutionality of executive and legislative decision.

You read right. 1803. Eighteen-oh-three. He wants to undo 202 years of precedent because he has a hate-on for judges.

He also thinks Anthony Kennedy is the most dangerous man in America, and should be impeached, along with every other justice on the court but Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia. Here's the full text of the rant: [link]

Vile, evil man. I'm starting to hate him more than I do Bush and Cheney. The way this is going, I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to assasinate Kennedy in his home or bomb the 9th Circuit Court.

Do you have a lee-sahnse for your minkey?

Happy Birfdays to Beej and beth!

The Blue Jays and Red Sox are playing the Patriot's Day game from Fenway. It was an 11am start. My buddy is giving me pitch-by-pitch by icq from his mlb.tv feed.

James Dobson

Scary guy with the ear of the president and lots of followers. At least so far it doesn't seem like the crusade against Judges has caught on beyond the far right.

James Dobson, building a bridge to the 18th century.

Huh.

So someone wrote a book called James Dobson's War on America. Which isn't surprising that someone would write such a book, but what is surprising is the author: "former Focus [on the Family] vice-president Alexander-Moegerle."

From Amazon (which got it from Publishers Weekly ):

It's no secret that Dobson, as Alexander-Moegerle writes, advocates "smaller government, larger defense, the elimination of the Department of Education and the NEA, and the barring of women and homosexuals from military service." Alexander-Moegerle relies on his more than 15 years of close contact with Dobson to paint a portrait of Dobson as an autocratic manager hungry for political power and recognition. According to the author, Dobson's Nazarene belief that he is sinless and morally perfect results in Dobson's stance that he is morally superior to others, even his employees. Such a stance, combined with Dobson's apparent sexism, racism and homophobia, and his ability to lobby Capitol Hill with "500,000 to 1 million phone calls and letters within hours," according to Alexander-Moegerle, seem to make Dobson a tremendous political threat to the pluralism and diversity of political views in America.

Happy Birthday Beth, my Aries cusp sistah!

Thanks so much for the good wishes all...and for that lovely blessing Laura. What's that in my eye?

It is a glorious day. Ellis Paul is serenading me and Bartleby and I are about to set off for my surrogate parent's house for a long-overdue visit.

Then? Firefly viewing party!!!

Mwah to the world.

Birthday Happies for beth and beej!!

Goodness, that Dobson person can foam at the mouth at length, can't he? The trouble is, every lawyer I have ever talked to really really likes the idea of precedent and is not interested in throwing that kind of thing out. Which Dobson would, like, know, if he ever talked to anybody who didn't already agree with him in the first place.

Hermetically sealed universes: bad idea!

Goodness, that Dobson person can foam at the mouth at length, can't he? The trouble is, every lawyer I have ever talked to really really likes the idea of precedent and is not interested in throwing that kind of thing out. Which Dobson would, like, know, if he ever talked to anybody who didn't already agree with him in the first place.

I can't help wondering what he would've said and done had he been around during the civil rights movement, as irate as he is about judges foiling majority will.

Happy birthday Beej and beth. I'm mostly caught up so, yay tickybox! (((vw)))! Congratulations on your party Allison. I hope Calli's mom gets better. And yeah, Dobson's a butthead.

I am at work with 24 oz. of dark roasted Ethiopian Harrar goodness and a passed out puppy on my lap.

Calli, I hope everything lines up just right for your mother. Much strength to you.