Monday, October 20, 2008
Do you stick to the script or do you ad lib?
[T]here are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution -- try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up. No matter how ingenious, imaginative or artfully put, unless interpretive methodologies are tied to the original intent of the framers, they have no more basis in the Constitution than the latest football scores. To be sure, even the most conscientious effort to adhere to the original intent of the framers of our Constitution is flawed, as all methodologies and human institutions are; but at least originalism has the advantage of being legitimate and, I might add, impartial. -- Clarence Thomas, How to Read the Constitution, 10/20/08
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allow me to preface this by saying i really, really dislike clarence thomas. but this, being one of his milder declarations of originalism, is hard to disagree with.
I suppose that post is symptomatic of cognitive problem overload. I spend my days getting ulcers over my tax dollars subsidizing greed and stupidity, so I naturally spend my nights enjoying the simpler pleasures in life. By the way, all Sudoku does is frustrate and humble me. I can't even do the easiest ones. I'll leave that crap to the math folks.
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