Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back:
All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers! We’re gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little, whiny bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who is makin’ the movie… we’re gonna make them eat our shit, then shit out our shit, and then eat their shit that’s made up of our shit that we made ’em eat. And then you’re all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob.
Chattanooga Times Free Press:
[Haslam spokesman David] Smith didn’t provide any information about what the governor would be doing today. There are no events listed on his public schedule.
Stay classy.
That’s what you get when you vote for the “lesser of two evils”.
REMEMBER FOLKS: The lesser of two evils is still evil, and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
I find this particularly compelling, and it dispenses with dissenting arguments in toto:
Of course, the Constitution contemplates that democracy is the appropriate process for change, so long as that process does not abridge fundamental rights. Last Term, a plurality of this Court reaffirmed the importance of the democratic principle in Schuette v. BAMN, 572 U. S. ___ (2014), noting the “right of citizens to debate so they can learn and decide and then, through the political process, act in concert to try to shape the course of their own times.” Id., at ___ – ___ (slip op., at 15–16). Indeed, it is most often through democracy that liberty is preserved and protected in our lives. But as Schuette also said, “[t]he freedom secured by the Constitution consists, in one of its essential dimensions, of the right of the individual not to be injured by the unlawful exercise of governmental power.” Id., at ___ (slip op., at 15). Thus, when the rights of persons are violated, “the Constitution requires redress by the courts,” notwithstanding the more general value of democratic decisionmaking. Id., at ___ (slip op., at 17). This holds true even when protecting individual rights affects issues of the utmost importance and sensitivity.
The dynamic of our constitutional system is that individuals need not await legislative action before asserting a fundamental right. The Nation’s courts are open to injured individuals who come to them to vindicate their own direct, personal stake in our basic charter. An individual can invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed, even if the broader public disagrees and even if the legislature refuses to act. The idea of the Constitution “was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.” West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624, 638 (1943). This is why “fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.” Ibid.
—OBERGEFELL v. HODGES, 576 U. S. ____ (2015).
Associated Press on Twitter:
MORE: The Supreme Court’s ruling means 14 states will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage
Tennessee being one of those 14 states.
Not to pat myself on the back, but I’ve been calling this one for a decade on Equal Protection grounds, even before that awful ‘Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment’ of 2006 was proposed or voted into effect.
Let freedom ring.
“By Mennen!” Lots of funny here kids. You gotta love the Mental Floss.
Yahoo News Digest:
John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.
The government takes the position that the metadata collected – a vast amount of which does not contain directly “relevant” information, as the government concedes – are nevertheless “relevant” because they may allow the NSA, at some unknown time in the future, utilizing its ability to sift through the trove of irrelevant data it has collected up to that point, to identify information that is relevant. We agree with appellants that such an expansive concept of “relevance” is unprecedented and warranted.
Very entertaining YouTube clip by Pocketwatch.
Happy Star Wars day kids…
This is truly amazing. I could spend an entire day ‘Inside Abbey Road’.