And the Hits Just Keep On Coming

I really hate devoting so much time and space to such a boring subject as Supreme Court decisions, but the Supreme Court has been taking such incredibly large shits on the Constitution that I'm beginning to smell it all the way in New York. Because Monday was the end of the Supreme Court's session for this year, they've practically given themselves an enema with the amount of poop they've flung at us. Let's review some of these decisions briefly:

1) The Ten Commandments are allowed on government property but not in courthouses. Excuse my amateurishly naive legal mind, but either separation of church and state exists, or it doesn't. You can't forbid displaying a cross in a building but permit burning one on the front lawn. The Ten Commandments make the same statement anyway, indoors or outdoors. Verdict is too wishy-washy.

2) (AP) - WASHINGTON-Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting warnings that the lawsuits will stunt growth of cool tech gadgets such as the next iPod. This is a rejection of all precedents- the lawsuits of the movie companies when the Betamax came out, the musicians union when the Jukebox was put on the market, the recording industry against- well the ability to record at home were all resolved in favor of whatever the emerging technology happened to be. Hell, even though I think that the blatant copying of IBM's technology by Compaq et al. and of Xerox technology by Apple and Microsoft was wrong, there is no question that the PC industry as we know it today would not have emerged as quickly and vibrantly as it did.

3) The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeals of reporters Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of the New York Times for refusing to reveal their source in an investigation of the outing of CIA Agent Valerie Plame (first outed in a column by the nasally annoying Robert Novack). Thing is, they weren't the ones who broke the story and one didn't even publish the research that he did. They face 18 months in Jail, but guess what: Bye bye anonymous news sources to break the next Watergate. You can be sure that the next Deep Throat will suddenly find himself with laringitis.

Thanks for all the hard work, Judicial Legislators !!!



Assholes.