Comments on: Well, that’s funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:07:09 +0000

Touche Muck I mean mc…LOL…

By: matt mckeon

matt mckeon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:45:58 +0000

“It’s a game people.”
Hot shit Sherlock. And she just won a point.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:01:41 +0000

It is a game. She is coached by the White House as are the Democratic senators. The republicans are using these hearings to try to present their agenda. It’s a game people.

By: Salient

Salient — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:18:51 +0000

I regret that my first chance to listen to Sotomayor has been responses to such blastedly stupid questions.

My favorite part: “But that’s clearly not what I do as a judge.” Her tone of voice there is exactly what I’d use while very patiently dampening my own bewilderment and patiently, if a bit exasperatedly, explaining to an abstrusely angry person that a comment (they were taking wildly out of context) wasn’t intended in the (obviously absurd) way they are interpreting it.

By: weisseharre

weisseharre — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:19:40 +0000

hmm…”contrapositivism-as-counterforce in heart-of-darkness”

By: onymous

onymous — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:43:07 +0000

I had never considered applying modus tollens to O’Connor’s claim before – it makes it seem a little more ridiculous, as Sotomayor points out.

I don’t really buy that. If the claim is “a wise man and a wise woman should reach the same decision”, and the contrapositive is “if a man and woman reach different decisions, then they are not wise”, then it’s clearly a little ridiculous. But I think the claim O’Connor meant to make is that “a wise man and a wise woman, all other things except their sex being equal, should reach the same decision.” Which I don’t necessarily agree with, but simply taking the contrapositive now doesn’t make it seem ridiculous.

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:32:49 +0000

I had never considered applying modus tollens to O’Connor’s claim before – it makes it seem a little more ridiculous, as Sotomayor points out.

By: Tom Hurka

Tom Hurka — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:09:37 +0000

Yeah, but a movie line-up argument was much more important than this Supreme Court thing.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:10:29 +0000

My favourite part is her grin when he says “Cederbaum,” which she tries to suppress as he rambles on.

By: Delicious Pundit

Delicious Pundit — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:09:51 +0000

Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about ~~relationships~~ the judicial system; y'know, it's totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.