While Wednesday’s landmark ruling in U.S. Federal court decided that California’s Proposition 8 was unconstitutional, an appeals process will likely take the showdown over gay marriage all the way to the Supreme Court. Legal scholars believe that based on the court’s intent under Chief Justice Roberts, the case will achieve a milestone by granting the equal rights provided through marriage to corporations, at last.
“The Court ruled in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission that corporations are in essence individual people with the same rights to free speech, and that as free speech actually means ‘purchased media,’ corporations have more free speech than individuals,” explained Rick Steadman, a legal scholar versed in the issues surrounding the case. “The prevailing rationale in the Court is likely to extend the right to marry to corporations as well, but with their combined resources, expect the formation of ‘mega-marriages’ that are so vast, large numbers of the population will be required to attend the wedding, send a gift from the corporate registry, and clink their drinking glasses with their silverware if they wish to see any courtesy corporate canoodling.” The Court may clarify that states have their own jurisdiction to address the logistics required for their populations to do the electric slide.
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Posted in Blog | Tagged Supreme Court At Comic Con this weekend, FOX News rolled out the latest in its line of boogeymen action figures, The New & Improved Black Panther Party. It was an instant collector’s item, because there are so few in existence, and the original model was so closely monitored by the government in the 1960’s that interest was killed off.
Posted in Blog | Tagged FOX, funny In a tumultuous month of racial discourse — the pro-slavery sentiments of the Tea Party Express leader, the smearing of Shirley Sherrod, the faux-troversy over “New Black Panthers,” the ratcheting of anti-immigrant rancor– a refrain of outrage has become the norm. That this outrage has consistently been coming from white conservatives seems indicative of a crest in a country that has lived under slavery as long as it hasn’t.
This white backlash has been metastasizing over decades and has worn many mantles, argues Leonard Zeskind, author of the engrossing book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. Zeskind has spent many years following the movements’ leaders and attending gatherings, developing a unique insight into the membership, mindsets, and resources comprising a diaspora of Klansmen and Holocaust deniers, anti-immigration forces and militia men, executives in offices and everyday Americans.
Stressing a chasm of cultural difference between Middle America and the Coasts, Zeskind explained to me in this sit-down interview that many of the mainstream mouthpieces bemoaning the disenfranchised white man are hardly influential, but rather pandering to an existent culture ingrained with separatism. Read More »
Awash in the revelations that BP has been manipulating press pictures to make their response look more urgent, the original photo of their Command Center has been located, revealing other priorities BP seems to have besides cleaning up their image. Read More »
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