Dissents set no precedent
This question has nothing to do with Prop. 8 -- what's the point of the dissents, then? If they don't mean anything, why bother to commit them to record? Just an ego thing?
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2010 8:27:23 am PDT #16461 of 30001
That which does not kill you should RUN
tommyrot - Aug 05, 2010 8:31:44 am PDT #16462 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2010 8:32:41 am PDT #16463 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
YES, Ginger.
I am REALLY cranky today, but I want to throttle my boss for telling someone to type in "H-T-T-P-colon-Backslash-Backlash"
Ha ha ha! I was cranky like that last week. Things that are objectively eye-rolly were making me apoplectic. (That specific thing still makes me insane, though.)
Sparky1 - Aug 05, 2010 8:37:30 am PDT #16464 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
It's an ego thing, an outrage thing (see Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Lily Ledbetter), a not so subtle hint for attorneys who might want to argue in the future... But they are nothin' but dicta.
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2010 8:42:46 am PDT #16465 of 30001
That which does not kill you should RUN
But they are nothin' but dicta.
Huh. That's interesting.
Sparky1 - Aug 05, 2010 8:48:32 am PDT #16466 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Heck, huge chunks of opinions are dicta not precedent.
It makes the little law student brains go 'splody sometimes.
brenda m - Aug 05, 2010 8:53:51 am PDT #16467 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Huh. Turns out I really intensely do not like arugula. Do I have to turn in my liberal elitist card? I still look down on people, honest!
Tom Scola - Aug 05, 2010 8:56:05 am PDT #16468 of 30001
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
I have a hunch that Hec will approve of Emma Watson's new haircut.
Kat - Aug 05, 2010 8:58:38 am PDT #16469 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Threadless reprinted the Apocalypse Velma t-shirt! [link]
WOOT now I can have one and wear it to yoga! Thank you for the PSA. In other news, the book I'm laying out blows. Thanks, students, for your hard(?) work.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2010 8:59:42 am PDT #16470 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have a hunch that Hec will approve of Emma Watson's new haircut.
Ah, the Mulligan.