The city in question: Beijing. Volunteers wearing satin Queuing Day sashes shooed rush-hour commuters into lines at busy subway stations, while hospital administrators and a few city officials handed out long-stemmed roses to pat…
Actually, I think it's pretty cute: Yeah, she sings badly, but she never said she could sing well, and bad singing is an American (Idol) tradition. She's a little off on the words. You can ding her for that.
Yes, I did finally get out to see " Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut ." That's the highly promising first line of the film, which is set in 1988, and might be a multilayered tribute to the year 1988. There are m…
Today was the first day of law school, and I had my first "Religion and the Constitution" class. It seems like a lively group. After some preliminaries, we had a nice discussion about a 19th century case that refused to…
As noted below, the main opinion in Newdow does not address the Establishment Clause question. The three concurring opinions do, however, and all find the Pledge, with the "under God" language, constitutional. The thre…
Why not begin with the national anthem? It is American Idol. And it's at least as momentous as a baseball game. Is this the beginning? Aren't we at least a quarter of the way through? Well, that first quarter was the red…