As most people know Antonin Scalia passed away this weekend. Say what you will, I agreed with some of his positions on the 4th amendment, not much else. Mark Twain could have been talking about Justice Scalia when he said in, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: You see, he knew his own laws…
Tag: Legal
Scary Tax Stories From Beyond the Grave
[I]n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy (13 November 1789); reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) Yesterday when I wrote about income inequality it may have seemed like I implied the solution to the problem would only come when people…
Attack of the Killer Robots
Klaatu barada nikto -The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dir. Robert Wise (1951) Science fiction is rife with stories of robots threatening humanity such as: Terminator, The Matrix, Robocop, etc. In fact as we see drones striking America’s enemies across the world, the DARPA robotics challenge, and Google purchasing a military robot company, it’s hard…
Don’t Hate the Haters
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. Oscar Wilde Recently there has been a few noteworthy boycotts attempting to punish disagreeable speech. The new CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, resigned because of an outcry against him. He donated money to…
