06.23.05
Posted in Politics at 11:28 pm by Craig
The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
Presumably, the purpose of proposing this as the 28th amendment is that it would allow Congress to pass anti-desecration laws without being restricted by the 1st amendment. Does this mean then that Congress could in theory pass a flag-protection law without regard to
any pre-existing provision of the constitution? Would penalties for flag desecration be able to be cruel and unusual? Would their enforcement require due process of law? Would the President be able to veto any such law which Congress presented to him? If Congress determined that registered Democrats were statistically more likely to burn flags, then could they enact a law to round up all the Democrats and send them to Gitmo, lest they desecrate a flag? Is there anything which couldn’t be done by Congress in the name of protecting the flag?
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06.17.05
Posted in Politics at 6:00 am by Craig
Yikes. I’m travelling this week, and so seeing a lot of CNN in airports, hotel lobbies, etc. I haven’t really watched much cable news in the last while (I saw some election day coverage in November, which I thought was all pretty bad), but other than the occasional “outrageous” clip linked by Atrios or some such source, don’t really watch national TV news. I’m frankly astounded at how bad the programming is. Terrible coverage of stuff that’s barely newsworthy, by people who have no clue about the subject matter about which they’re pontificating. It strikes me that there surely is market demand for actual real news coverage, and that a cable news channel which provided such, would quite possibly make a lot of money. You could probably buy reporting footage from the BBC, have an anchor or two who know what they’re talking about, aren’t afraid to ask people questions which go beyond the inane, and can resist the temptation to try and insult their interviewees, a cameraman or two, and bingo. Maybe do something novel like stream the whole thing online, or have video segments embedded in an RSS feed or something, mix in some reuters/AP content, and voila.
Sigh, so many startups, so little time.
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06.15.05
Posted in Apple at 7:43 pm by Craig
So I just installed a
dashboard widget which lets me easily post to the blog. Hopefully this will mean I post more stuff, more often.
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