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"It is Alito’s quarrel with Scalia’s originalist approach that is most interesting today, echoing and even amplifying his jab at oral argument in a case about violent video games last year, that “what Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about video games.” At argument in that case, Alito went further, observing that such games represent a “new medium that cannot possibly have been envisioned when the First Amendment was ratified” and that it was “entirely artificial” to analogize the Framers’ attitudes to violent books for children to violent games. Today Alito again invokes the artifice of the Scalia approach, poking fun at his obsession with what the Framers would have done with satellites and lasers by suggesting, “It is almost impossible to think of late-18th-century situations that are analogous to what took place in this case. (Is it possible to imagine a case in which a constable secreted himself somewhere in a coach and remained there for a period of time in order to monitor the movements of the coach’s owner?)” Then to ratchet up the absurdity, Alito answers his own question in a footnote: The teensy constable scenario “would have required either a gigantic coach, a very tiny constable, or both—not to mention a constable with incredible fortitude and patience."
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U.S. v. Jones: Supreme Court Justices Alito and Scalia brawl over technology and privacy. - Slate
Sam Alito is hilarious! Who knew?
You know it’s a rough day when
… your dad calls you to tell you he saw you in your mailbag video and you can hear the concern in his voice immediately as he says: “Jeez, son, are you OK? You look like you haven’t slept in a week. Get some sleep. Can you take a nap during the day here and there, maybe? At least go have a steak. You need protein.”
To be fair to the pops, he ain’t wrong. Especially about the steak. I could definitely go for a steak.
"Most of my experience has been in sports writing, but I can write everything from warmongering propaganda to learned book reviews."
— Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job - Boing Boing
"Decoder Magazine is foremost an attempt to interpret a world of culture and media in which the preeminent players have been the newly liberated human and the ambitious constellation of niche communities that new resources have given us digital beings unparalleled access to"
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Decoder Magazine, Issue #1 Kickstarter
That sounds great and all, but wait … say what?
Residents of Worcester’s Grafton Hill neighborhood acknowledged Monday they would not necessarily mind a Panera Bread franchise coming in and wiping out Callahan’s, a charming, family-run bakery that has been a fixture of their community since 1964.
According to locals, the national restaurant chain would be just the thing to run the mom-and-pop establishment out of business, replacing Callahan’s genuinely warm, welcoming atmosphere with the kind of impersonal, hassle-free cafe experience they have long desired.
“Callahan’s really is lovely and all, but every time I’m in there I get roped into a 10-minute conversation about what’s going on in the neighborhood, or the history of some recipe that’s been in their family for generations,” said patron Catherine New, 33, who told reporters the friendly older couple who owns the shop is always there, apparently working from open to close every single day. “It would be such a relief to walk in somewhere and have some disinterested college-age kid take my order without even making eye contact.”
“They’re nice at Callahan’s, but they don’t seem to get that this is only a business transaction,” New continued. “I just want a cup of coffee. We’re not friends.”
Neighborhood Kind Of Hoping Panera Bread Shows Up And Plows Over Charming Local Bakery — The Onion
