Mid-Year Musings
‘Due process’ is a term people use without knowing what it means. Due process is simply whatever legal process is owed you in a given circumstance. The law itself prescribes what is owed you. The details of due process differ from case to case.
Mark Twain once asked: “Do women dress more for the eyes of women or for their effect upon men?”
I am always baffled by those who promote ‘natural living’ but who believe that gluten, a naturally occurring protein, is best avoided by those not allergic to it.
Baseball is the only sport in which the defense has the ball.
The political left damns a society for its sins, yet finds hateful the notion of a God who damns a society for its sins.
We use the word “literally” to mean “figuratively”.
When we visited New England last year, tour guides in every state emphasized how gritty, independent, and self-reliant New Englanders are. And yet in every presidential election since 1992 their states endorse the candidate that promotes greater dependence upon the federal government.
I come from a time when only dweebs wore dark socks with sneakers.
Definitions are divisive.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called an afternoon tea for women a “giggle-gabble-gobble-git”.
The dissent in the Dobbs decision argued that inconveniences to a woman’s life justify an abortion. If inconvenience to a woman’s life, e.g. interference with her financial well-being or career/educational advancement, is a reason to kill, what differs when it is her toddler that creates her ‘inconvenience’?
People picture Jesus to be a wizened old man. But it was the wizened old men of his day who crucified Jesus. Jesus was only in his early 30’s.
Mark Twain once asked: “Do women dress more for the eyes of women or for their effect upon men?”
I am always baffled by those who promote ‘natural living’ but who believe that gluten, a naturally occurring protein, is best avoided by those not allergic to it.
Baseball is the only sport in which the defense has the ball.
The political left damns a society for its sins, yet finds hateful the notion of a God who damns a society for its sins.
We use the word “literally” to mean “figuratively”.
When we visited New England last year, tour guides in every state emphasized how gritty, independent, and self-reliant New Englanders are. And yet in every presidential election since 1992 their states endorse the candidate that promotes greater dependence upon the federal government.
I come from a time when only dweebs wore dark socks with sneakers.
Definitions are divisive.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called an afternoon tea for women a “giggle-gabble-gobble-git”.
The dissent in the Dobbs decision argued that inconveniences to a woman’s life justify an abortion. If inconvenience to a woman’s life, e.g. interference with her financial well-being or career/educational advancement, is a reason to kill, what differs when it is her toddler that creates her ‘inconvenience’?
People picture Jesus to be a wizened old man. But it was the wizened old men of his day who crucified Jesus. Jesus was only in his early 30’s.