{"id":1731,"date":"2005-07-25T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/23\/quotes-from-other-peoples-websites\/"},"modified":"2005-07-25T00:04:30","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T07:04:30","slug":"quotes-from-other-peoples-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from other people&#039;s websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[None of the quoted snippits in this post were written by me; they&#8217;re all from essays or posts I thought were interesting, found on other websites.]<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thegimpparade.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/supreme-court-nominee-john-roberts-no.html\">The Gimp Parade<\/a> <em>on John Roberts and Disability Rights<\/em>: In 2001, Slate&#8217;s Dahlia Lithwick presented a clear and pithy summary of the arguments before the Court, where thanks to Roberts it was concluded that the loss of a job due to severe work-related repetitive stress injury does not qualify someone for coverage under the ADA. Despite carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis resulting in &#8220;lumps the size of a hen&#8217;s egg in [her] wrists, and [her] hands and fingers&#8230; curled up like animal claws,&#8221; the Court ruled that plaintiff Ella Williams was not disabled because of Robert&#8217;s legal arguments: &#8220;She can brush her teeth, wash, bathe, do laundry and cook breakfast. She can take care of personal chores around the house. [Her wrist injury] is only a problem at work.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/opinion\/ny-opbal214351161jul21,0,3270975.story\">Jack Balkin <\/a><em>on Justice Roberts and abortion<\/em>: &#8230;Replacing Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor with Roberts is likely to mean the Supreme Court will uphold many more laws restricting abortion. The list of such laws is endless, ranging from partial birth abortion bans to limits on abortions for minors. Courts now enjoin new abortion laws as soon as they are passed if they burden some women&#8217;s right to abortion. But next term the court will decide whether to change that rule. If it does, states could pass stringent restrictions on abortion; these could remain on the books for years until lawsuits knock away the most blatantly unconstitutional features. That is not the same as overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but its practical effect is very similar. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcynic.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/balkin_on_rober.php\">Dispatches<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcynic.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/mark_olson_on_b.php\">Ed at Dispatches From The Culture Wars <\/a><em>on the Supreme Court confirmation process<\/em>: Not only do I want to know the answers to those questions, I think nominees have an obligation to answer them in front of the entire nation. They are asking to be given a lifetime appointment to the nation&#8217;s highest court where their decisions will have more of an impact on our lives and our liberty than virtually any other body in the world. Our liberty is in their hands and they have an obligation to tell us what they intend to do with it before we give that power to them. I don&#8217;t want to hear that the nominee is kind, decent, trustworthy, thrifty and brave. I want to hear what they would do with their almost unbridled power to interpret the Constitution because that document is the backbone of American liberty. And any Senator who does not ask such questions shouldn&#8217;t be in office. The problem is not that the Senate explores a nominee&#8217;s ideology, it&#8217;s that they generally do so dishonestly and badly and only in the service of their own political interests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueoregon.com\/2005\/07\/real_healthy_fo.html\">Russel Sadler<\/a>: The Northwest timber industry and its industrial foresters have never forgiven Dr. Jerry Franklin for methodically dismantling their cherished orthodoxy. Until the 1980s, industrial foresters were taught that old growth forests were &#8220;dead, dying and decadent.&#8221;\u009d Old growth forests were &#8220;biological deserts&#8221;\u009d that had to be cut down before they burned down and replaced by &#8220;healthy, vigorous young forests.&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/ftissues\/ft0506\/reviews\/butler.html\">Sara Butler<\/a>, <em>reviewing the book Taking Sex Differences Seriously<\/em>: One doesn&#8217;t have to be a believer in feminist ideology to be a little skeptical of a theory that automatically gives men a certain degree of freedom from nature that women do not have. According to this line of thought, sexual chastity does not come naturally to men, so we shouldn&#8217;t be all that surprised when they fail. Women, however, are supposed to have nature on their side; if they still insist on being sexually active, even promiscuous, they must be really awful&#8230;much more depraved then their male counterparts who behave the same way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightymiddle.com\/index.php?\/archives\/214-One-Party-America.html\">The Mighty Middle<\/a> <em>on Democrats<\/em>: This is where you&#8217;ve brought us. Roe is going down. The Holy Fucking Grail is going down. Get used to it. Saladin is taking Jerusalem back from you. The other side won, you lost, and you know why you lost? Because you are deeply stupid people. Your favorite perjorative for Mr. Bush: stupid. And yet, he&#8217;s the one in charge, despite everything, despite the fact that he is one of the worst presidents in American history, he&#8217;s in the driver&#8217;s seat and you are standing on the fucking curb holding a sign that says &#8220;Will Organize For Food.&#8221; You&#8217;re sitting in your war rooms writing up your talking points, passing you memos back and forth and all of it is like some Twilight Zone episode where you&#8217;re dead and don&#8217;t know it. Cue Rod Serling: Consider the Democrats.\n<p>Shyamalan on Politics: &#8220;I see dead people.&#8221; &#8220;No, those are Democrats.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brutalwomen.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/holy-womb-of-antioch.html\">Brutal Women<\/a> <em>on the latest Star Wars flick<\/em>: In fact, every scene Padme is in, she&#8217;s sitting on a couch or standing at a window or standing on the balcony staring blankly at something, pregnant, (because everyone knows pregnant women live like invalids) waiting for the scene to start. Waiting for Anakin or some Jedi to come in and break up her staring-at-the-wall reverie. Natalie Portman checked out of this movie a long time ago. And who can blame her? It was utterly obvious from the writing that she was only there as a peice of scenery. Her hair and clothes changed drastically with every scene; she was a walking, talking set peice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/legislating-from-bench.html\">Mark Grabor<\/a> <em>on conservative judicial activism<\/em>: President Bush demonstrate his usual capacity for double-speak last night when he praised Judge John Roberts as a jurist who would &#8220;not legislate from the bench.&#8221; As note on this blog and more extensively in Keck, THE MOST ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT IN HISTORY (mandatory reading during the confirmation hearings), the Rehnquist Court does nothing but &#8220;legislate from the bench&#8221; with Justices Thomas and Scalia being the most active judicial legislators. Consider the numerous areas in which they impose or would impose limits on state and federal officials&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[None of the quoted snippits in this post were written by me; they&#8217;re all from essays or posts I thought were interesting, found on other websites.] The Gimp Parade on John Roberts and Disability Rights: In 2001, Slate&#8217;s Dahlia Lithwick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,31,50,62,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-link-farms","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}