It appears to be unconstitutional!

You don't say.

I call Xena for teh Gays! It's named after one of our own. Let's colonize, bitches!

Haven't we had first right of refusal for Ganymede since the 1600s?

It appears to be unconstitutional!

I am shocked, SHOCKED, SHOC--wait, no. What's the opposite of shocked?

Judge orders NSA to halt wiretapping program.

Okay, it was even funnier when I thought you'd typed NASA.

Speaking of earworms:

Everyone Has Had More Sex Than Me

Thank you for the Crazy mention.

Good news for today: monthly departmental luncheon where the topic was "a surprise." We were to "prepare to be challenged", which no one looked forward to. However, it turned out to be a trivia contest among tables randomly composed of associates and partners-- trivia on firm history, identifying pictures of staff, paralegals and lawyers, legal questions, a sudoku, logic games/reasoning from the LSAT...and my table (the only one sans partner but with enough midlevels/senior associates to remember who the staff is) won! Our prize has something to do with the firm's sports tickets. Best department lunch ever!

An analysis of the text of the decision in the NSA spying thing: [link]

eta: Judge Diggs Taylor wrote:

In this case, if the teachings of Youngstown are law, the separation of powers doctrine has been violated. The president undisputably has violated the provisions of FISA for a five-year period. Justice Black wrote, in Youngstown:

Nor can the seizure order be sustained because of the several constitutional provisions that grant executive power to the President. In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad. And the Constitution is neither silent nor equivocal about who make laws which the President is to execute. The first section of the first article says that `All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States * * *'

The President's order does not direct that a congressional policy be executed in a manner prescribed by Congress - it directs that a presidential policy be executed in a manner prescribed by the President. . . . The Constitution did not subject this law-making power of Congress to presidential or military supervision or control. Youngstown, 343 U.S. at 587-588.

These secret authorization orders must, like the executive order in that case, fall. They violate the Separation of Powers ordained by the very Constitution of which this President is a creature.

Karr told investigators he drugged and had sex with the child beauty queen before accidentally killing her, said a senior Thai police officer, who was briefed about the interview.

I've seen this terminology in every story I've read about this and it's really offensive. He didn't "have sex" with her. He raped her. He molested her. Combine "had sex" with "child beauty queen" and it feels dangerously close to "she asked for it."

OK, you know how scientists are arguing about how many planets we have? That only proves that they're lying when they say the earth goes around the sun.

No, really. The Heliocentric Hoax

So-called "scientists" who propound the hoax of heliocentrism have been at each other's throats this week as their so-called "theory" falls apart. Heliocentrism is the idea that Earth and all other planets were formed at some point in history and circle around the Sun. How shaky is this "solar system" theory? Well, the experts don't even know how many planets there are:

...

Even the so-called "scientists" admit their own theories are contradictory nonsense. First, their theories change from day to day -- in fact, the idea of a sun-centered solar system didn't even arise until the year 1540. Second, they can't even agree on the details of their own theory -- some say there are 8 planets, some 12, some say as many as 53! Third, their theories are formed by committee, not derived (as they would have you believe) from some absolute external truth.

Compare that with the Bible, which tells us that Earth was created on the first day, and the Sun was created on the fourth day. (What did Earth circle around the first three days, Professor Smartypants?) The Bible is constant and unchanging, it is a single source of truth, and it was given to us by God not by some committee vote. Here's an experiment for you four-eyes: get your nose out of the telescope and look up in the sky. Then tell me the Sun doesn't go around the Earth.

Heliocentrism - another product of the Secular Humanist conspiracy.

eta: Actually a parody/satire-ish thingy....

I've seen this terminology in every story I've read about this and it's really offensive. He didn't "have sex" with her. He raped her. He molested her. Combine "had sex" with "child beauty queen" and it feels dangerously close to "she asked for it."

I dunno - it seems to me that they're just reporting what the guy said, rather than the police's view of what happened.

Does the rest of the article mention rape at all?