tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post8509821056789257776..comments2023-10-28T08:02:44.565-05:00Comments on illusory tenant: Themes from The Blogfatherillusory tenanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524761974822871419noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-38825589511415367022008-04-01T11:28:00.000-05:002008-04-01T11:28:00.000-05:00Hope is alive. Our spirit will neither swell unsee...Hope is alive. <BR/><BR/>Our spirit will neither swell unseemingly, nor be demolished, by today's accumulation of election data. Whatever happens, there will have been worse days and better, and there will be worse and better to come. <BR/><BR/>Much respect and gratitude is due to Justice Butler for his service; for his integrity, impartiality, and independence; for his admirable alloy of professionalism and humanity; and for his example and his tough forbearance. <BR/><BR/>Many thanks to all those who closed ranks and defended the shining promise of justice and democracy. Thanks for the inspiration, and the solidarity, and the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-65702762024905377202008-03-25T12:52:00.000-05:002008-03-25T12:52:00.000-05:00... draws Posner-like (strike)simians(/strike) sim...... draws Posner-like (strike)simians(/strike) similes.William Tyrolerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964907089960326249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-63868008426922293692008-03-25T11:43:00.000-05:002008-03-25T11:43:00.000-05:00lolSay, Counsellor, could you distill that Posner ...lol<BR/><BR/>Say, Counsellor, could you distill that Posner comparison down to two or three words so I can place it on my "vanity wall?" In, like, 48-point type.illusory tenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08524761974822871419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-91821299429769314212008-03-25T10:22:00.000-05:002008-03-25T10:22:00.000-05:00Presently burdened with nothing better to, I find ...Presently burdened with nothing better to, I find myself unable to shake the image of Charlie Sykes as performing ape. And so the nagging thought arises: could iT possibly be related to Richard Posner, who shares the illusive blogger's allusive affinity for our simian cousins, e.g.:<BR/><BR/><I><A HREF="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=7th&navby=case&no=952155a" REL="nofollow">Trial before an orangutan ... would deprive the defendant of a "substantial" right even if it were certain that a jury would convict.</A></I> <BR/><BR/><I><A HREF="http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/895/895.F2d.406.88-2953.html" REL="nofollow">No doubt there are limits to waiver; if the parties stipulated to trial by 12 orangutans the defendant's conviction would be invalid notwithstanding his consent, because some minimum of civilized procedure is required by community feeling regardless of what the defendant wants or is willing to accept.</A></I><BR/><BR/>Just wondering.William Tyrolerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964907089960326249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-72850104563921442342008-03-24T19:37:00.001-05:002008-03-24T19:37:00.001-05:00Roflmao.I do like it when my blogs are entertainin...Roflmao.<BR/><BR/>I <I>do</I> like it when my blogs are entertaining, informative, snarky, and literary at the same time. keep it up Illy T!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603910165854702494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-682379415375899772008-03-24T19:37:00.000-05:002008-03-24T19:37:00.000-05:00Charles J. Sykes, in short, is a buffoon, a perfor...<I>Charles J. Sykes, in short, is a buffoon, a performing ape.</I><BR/><BR/>Would 100 apes yammering away for a year duplicate a Sunday Incite?William Tyrolerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964907089960326249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-91460919549954874962008-03-24T18:44:00.000-05:002008-03-24T18:44:00.000-05:00I like "scantily-clad, booty-shaking females." I'...I like "scantily-clad, booty-shaking females." I'm going to have to watch more often.James Wigdersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01127033614431286439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-54740840739777479312008-03-24T17:35:00.000-05:002008-03-24T17:35:00.000-05:00just in time to learn 'bout composting toilets.So,...<I>just in time to learn 'bout composting toilets.</I><BR/><BR/>So, really, when you changed the channel, you just switched from the figurative to the literal version.<BR/><BR/>If the <I>J-S</I> doesn't endorse Justice Butler, then the <I>entire</I> editorial board must have slept through that interview.illusory tenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08524761974822871419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506514005426983269.post-13343922584113032722008-03-24T17:20:00.000-05:002008-03-24T17:20:00.000-05:00So, on the invitation of (visiting) Perfesser Rick...So, on the invitation of (visiting) Perfesser Rick (I was really hoping for a glimpse of his halo), I went down to my partially heated basement, fired up the 19" Motorola and settled in to watch Sykes. It was something new for me (the bride and I have watched 20 movies from Blockbuster, some Favreball games and one Madness match each of Badgers and Golden Warrior Eagles in the past six months). <BR/><BR/>I'm with you, Tenant. After three toots of the Sykes on his Clarabelle horn and his invocation of "Loophole Louie," I had to snap that show off. Went over and heard a much more appealing show called "Power Remodeling," just in time to learn 'bout composting toilets.<BR/><BR/>They are really pulling out all the stops. They (WMC, and the rightwing claque on TV and Radio) realize this is do-or-die time.<BR/><BR/>Is anyone doing any polling? <BR/><BR/>My son is job-hunting in California, so I helped him get his request for an absentee ballot. <BR/><BR/>Lacking any hints about how close this could be, I think we should be not only blogging and debating, but arranging carpools to the polls. <BR/><BR/>Turnout, turnout, turnout.<BR/><BR/>Wonder how the MJS will finesse a Butler endorsement so that it includes the essential (to their plummeting "goodwill") butt-smooch of WMC?Jim Boumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211745461377043118noreply@blogger.com