Did you spend your morning watching other people watching some people on twitter watching some people on liveblogs watching the Supreme Court? US TOO! Because of that, we have some super-nuanced really well-developed thoughts on the cases that came down today. HAHAHA we do not, because we are just writing this off-the-cuff through a haze of morning alcohol. First things first: we do not yet know if the gays can get married or the blahs will be able to actually vote in a meaningful way. Those questions are for another day like tomorrow or Wednesday or Thursday.
Italy will let him run loose for the 27 years it takes to finish the appeals process. And if he's still alive after that, they'll retroactively make prostitution legal for 17-year-old girls.
Speaking of which -- another Big Law firm just tossed 60 associates (and 110 staffers) out of their jobs. Tough shit about the school loans and that new mortgage, kid ... but the partners <a href="http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/24\/big-law-firm-to-cut-lawyers-and-some-partner-pay\/\?hpw" target="_blank">(who can&#039;t be fired)</a> gotta maintain their average $2.2 million draw. Can&#039;t have them dropping out of the 1% -- that would be wrong! Why the panic? Because the firm&rsquo;s 2012 revenue remained flat from 2011 at $1.23 billion, and profit per partner dropped to a paltry $2.23 million.
Yes, prove non-existence or you lose. Do you suppose the Justices even realize how impossible that is? Are they too stupid to realize they have rigged the eventual verdict? Or are they just disingenuous slimeballs?
The Fisher decision really grinds my gears. The plaintiff finished in the top 12% of her class. Under the admissions practices UT had at the time, if she had finished in the top 10% she&#039;d have been automatically admitted (it&#039;s now top 8%, I think).
So basically this was a &quot;I&#039;m gonna blame the minorities because I was too damn lazy to get that extra 2%&quot; tantrum.
So, did the blonde white chick go to another college and get on with her life, or is she sitting around waiting for the red carpet to UT Austin waiting to be rolled out for her?
Unless you report directly to the CEO of Seven-Eleven, your store manager can fire you and can&#039;t say dick-all about it.
Seems reasonable. These minimum-wage workers can get mighty uppity. In any case we need to prepare ourselves for the arrival under immigration reform of a new caste of <strike> slaves</strike> guest workers, whom we can blame for everything, call by insulting names, and mistreat at our pleasure. It worked so well 1789-1863 that we might as well try it again.
Sure they did, but then Tony Scalia snatched the page from the book and wiped his ass with it, because it threatened one of his most beloved things in the whole wide world: corporate hegemony.
Surprising that it was 7-1, I haven&#039;t looked yet but I&#039;ll be surprised if Scalia and Thomas actually signed on to the opinion rather than a concurrence that said &quot;sure remand it but BTW we should stomp all over precedent and make a new ruling that affirmative action is never OK, ever, unless it&#039;s for whites&quot;.
ETA: Now I&#039;ve looked; Thomas and Scalia both joined the majority, but wrote concurrences (Thomas&#039;s is longer than the opinion of the court) - Thomas saying he&#039;d overturn <em>Grutter</em>, Scalia (mercifully briefly) restating that he did not agree with all of <em>Grutter</em>, both of them effectively saying that the government is forbidden from taking any race-conscious actions to redress systematic imbalance resulting from centuries of officially sanctioned racial discrimination. Fuckers.
I always thought there used to be something about a &quot;hostile work environment&quot; that seemed important. Thank you Nino on John for disavowing me of such foolishness!
Props for spelling &quot;bated breath&quot; the way 0.9% of the internet does (i.e., correctly.)
Italy will let him run loose for the 27 years it takes to finish the appeals process. And if he&#039;s still alive after that, they&#039;ll retroactively make prostitution legal for 17-year-old girls.
Sitting on.
Isn&#039;t &quot;malicious intent&quot; the primary factor in libel cases?
&quot;Proving&quot; racist intent is probably headed in the same direction.
Hey, car elevators and dancing horses are expensive! Mitt Rmoney only <i>seems</i> to be rich.
It&#039;s for a lot of things. Also, you can sit on it.
Speaking of which -- another Big Law firm just tossed 60 associates (and 110 staffers) out of their jobs. Tough shit about the school loans and that new mortgage, kid ... but the partners <a href="http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/24\/big-law-firm-to-cut-lawyers-and-some-partner-pay\/\?hpw" target="_blank">(who can&#039;t be fired)</a> gotta maintain their average $2.2 million draw. Can&#039;t have them dropping out of the 1% -- that would be wrong! Why the panic? Because the firm&rsquo;s 2012 revenue remained flat from 2011 at $1.23 billion, and profit per partner dropped to a paltry $2.23 million.
As I expected, the Zimmerman jury has no African-American members: 5 white women, 1 Hispanic woman. Good luck Trayvon. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57590372-5...">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301...
Yes, prove non-existence or you lose. Do you suppose the Justices even realize how impossible that is? Are they too stupid to realize they have rigged the eventual verdict? Or are they just disingenuous slimeballs?
The Fisher decision really grinds my gears. The plaintiff finished in the top 12% of her class. Under the admissions practices UT had at the time, if she had finished in the top 10% she&#039;d have been automatically admitted (it&#039;s now top 8%, I think).
So basically this was a &quot;I&#039;m gonna blame the minorities because I was too damn lazy to get that extra 2%&quot; tantrum.
So, did the blonde white chick go to another college and get on with her life, or is she sitting around waiting for the red carpet to UT Austin waiting to be rolled out for her?
Unless you report directly to the CEO of Seven-Eleven, your store manager can fire you and can&#039;t say dick-all about it.
Seems reasonable. These minimum-wage workers can get mighty uppity. In any case we need to prepare ourselves for the arrival under immigration reform of a new caste of <strike> slaves</strike> guest workers, whom we can blame for everything, call by insulting names, and mistreat at our pleasure. It worked so well 1789-1863 that we might as well try it again.
Sure they did, but then Tony Scalia snatched the page from the book and wiped his ass with it, because it threatened one of his most beloved things in the whole wide world: corporate hegemony.
Surprising that it was 7-1, I haven&#039;t looked yet but I&#039;ll be surprised if Scalia and Thomas actually signed on to the opinion rather than a concurrence that said &quot;sure remand it but BTW we should stomp all over precedent and make a new ruling that affirmative action is never OK, ever, unless it&#039;s for whites&quot;.
ETA: Now I&#039;ve looked; Thomas and Scalia both joined the majority, but wrote concurrences (Thomas&#039;s is longer than the opinion of the court) - Thomas saying he&#039;d overturn <em>Grutter</em>, Scalia (mercifully briefly) restating that he did not agree with all of <em>Grutter</em>, both of them effectively saying that the government is forbidden from taking any race-conscious actions to redress systematic imbalance resulting from centuries of officially sanctioned racial discrimination. Fuckers.
I always thought there used to be something about a &quot;hostile work environment&quot; that seemed important. Thank you Nino on John for disavowing me of such foolishness!