Sunday miscellany
Sep. 16th, 2012 14:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starlady# I made a vid. It is Prometheus set to Bowie and I am very fond of it. /self-promotion
Actually, okay, a question: I am tempted to make an AO3 page for it. What do people think of making AO3 pages for vids/AMVs/etc? Hatred? Indifference? Squee?
# The Hunger Games is out in stores now, and I have had this New Yorker blog post in a tab for months: Keeping 'The Hunger Games' Kids' Stuff. It's about violence and counterinsurgency and the meaning of the movie's message, and I thought it raised some very good points.
In other old Hunger Games tabs, still hilarious,cleolinda's The odds may or may not be in my favor.
# Another New Yorker article that I've had in a tab forever is Extreme Makeover, about Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case that struck down anti-sodomy laws nationwide. It raises a lot of fascinating details about the case that were carefully and knowingly suppressed by its plaintiffs, as well as some hard questions about the Supreme Court itself:
Actually, okay, a question: I am tempted to make an AO3 page for it. What do people think of making AO3 pages for vids/AMVs/etc? Hatred? Indifference? Squee?
# The Hunger Games is out in stores now, and I have had this New Yorker blog post in a tab for months: Keeping 'The Hunger Games' Kids' Stuff. It's about violence and counterinsurgency and the meaning of the movie's message, and I thought it raised some very good points.
In other old Hunger Games tabs, still hilarious,
cleolinda's The odds may or may not be in my favor. # Another New Yorker article that I've had in a tab forever is Extreme Makeover, about Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case that struck down anti-sodomy laws nationwide. It raises a lot of fascinating details about the case that were carefully and knowingly suppressed by its plaintiffs, as well as some hard questions about the Supreme Court itself:
As Carpenter’s nuanced exploration of what worked in Lawrence v. Texas makes clear, the Supreme Court is both supremely open to and supremely closed off from the world around it. That’s why we come to the Court, play by its rules, and tell the Justices stories they like to hear about people who remind them of themselves. The Justices don’t get out much. All of the current nine attended two law schools; their clerks mainly come from seven law schools; cases are argued by a shrinking number of highly skilled oral advocates; a shrinking pool of journalists cover the arguments. Nobody currently sitting on the Court has ever run for elected office, nobody has tried a death-penalty case, and nobody, it’s fair to assume, has been interrupted by the police while he or she was half-dressed in a run-down apartment outside Houston. One Justice bragged recently about not bothering to read the supplemental briefs in the cases; another talks about his distaste for the news media. We may well wonder, then, where they get their information about the world outside their chambers, and how they learn—as Justice Powell learned only very late in his life—how much they don’t know about that world.
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Date: 2012-09-16 23:36 (UTC)