I touched on this topic briefly earlier today, but wanted to come back to it this evening. Comedian and equal-opportunity cynic Jon Stewart took on Obama during an “Indecision 2008” segment earlier this week on The Daily Show, and hilarity ensued:
For all that talk yesterday of a Democrat filibuster on the FISA compromise in the Senate, it wasn’t even close:
The decision on Kennedy v. Louisiana, a case that decided whether or not child rape was punishable by death, was announced this morning. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to blog on it (daytime blogging will continue to be light for me for the forseeable future) but now that I’ve gotten home I’ve had a chance to read what happened to that poor little 8 year old girl at the hands of a disgrace to civilized society, as well as read some of the ruling, I’m not getting at all how the majority came to its decision.
Nail, meet hammer.
… because they don’t want telecoms to have retroactive immunity from lawsuits (via Memeo):
