Monthly Archives: July 2005

Justices and Litmus

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bush will not appoint someone who will vote to overturn Roe V Wade.
“Why not?” you ask. Jack Balkin has this answer:

Bush must decide if he wants to overturn Roe or preserve the Republicans as the majority party. With Roe gone, the pro-choice movement will be energized and Republican politicians will have to state on the record whether they want to criminalize abortion. Women, libertarians, and moderates may bolt the party, destroying Bush’s winning coalition. Republicans may dislike Roe, but they may dislike losing elections even more.

On the other hand Balkin argues that the real plan is likely much more damaging to Roe supporters.

Technorati Falling

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I like Techorati and I suppose that someday it might be useful again. Perhaps after everyone else stops using it because of persistently receiving error messages like:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.technorati.com/search/real url removed/
The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.
Your cache administrator is noc@technorati.com.
Generated Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:10:30 GMT by www.technorati.com (squid/2.5.STABLE7)

Or the frequent “We are experiencing a heavy load please try again later” messages, the reported links randomly changing from query to query, or it not showing all of your recent links, taking forever to get to the 2nd page of links and ….
I really do like Technorati…

Friday Ark

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Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.
We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals as I see them (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles).
Leave a comment or trackback to this post or email Modulator and we’ll add yours to the list. Check back regularly for updates throughout the day on Fridays and somewhat less frequently over the weekend.
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and will be hosted this week by Another Fine Mess.
Bird folks: Check out the inaugral edition of I and the Bird hosted by 10,000 Birds.
And, check out Laurence’s fine graphical analysis of Friday Ark boardings.
Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Cats

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)