Now these are the Supremes I know and fear.
Monday May 13, 2002
The ones who’ve rendered the Fourth Amendment dead on arrival these days and made a mockery of the vote way back in December of 2000 are at it again. Be it proclaimed from the pen of Justice Clarence Thomas, noted porn hound, that “We have observed that it is neither realistic nor constitutionally sound to read the First Amendment as requiring that the people of Maine or Mississippi accept public depiction of conduct found tolerable in Las Vegas or New York City.” —Apparently, though, it’s perfectly okay to scrap the First Amendment by attempting to dumb the internet down to that which wouldn’t offend the Landover Baptist Church. As long as you clear up those pesky vagaries in the language…