{"id":1003,"date":"2003-07-09T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T21:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2006-07-10T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T04:37:58","slug":"father-why-do-these-words-sound-so-nasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"why do these words sound so nasty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t agree on much with my old schoolmate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/\">Eric Rasmusen<\/a>, a newcomer to the weblog craze; but we&#8217;re similarly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/w\/2003\/03.07.02a.htm\">disturbed<\/a> over <i>Lawrence v. Texas<\/i>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Scalia .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. probably would vote against the Texas sodomy law as a citizen.  But as a judge, he is offended when other judges violate their oath of office and pretend the law says something it does not.  That kind of behavior is serious, and calls for a serious response.  If the President were to ignore the Constitution and say he was going to eliminate the Texas sodomy law, we would, I hope, impeach the President.  Why, then, do we tolerate a Supreme Court doing clearly unconstitutional things? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Most, or at least much, of the world&#8217;s trouble can be blamed on the notion that governments <em>ought<\/em> to do every well-meaning thing that they <em>can<\/em> do.  While I&#8217;m pleased (unlike Eric, I assume) at the immediate result, i.e. one bad law fewer, I don&#8217;t think it was any of the US judiciary&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing concentration of power is a disturbing trend, even &ndash; I might say especially &ndash; when it happens under the flag of a good cause.  The power to overrule Texan sodomy policy is the power to overrule Californian marijuana policy.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that I suppose I ought to go read the <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/cgi-bin\/getcase.pl?court=US&#038;navby=case&#038;vol=000&#038;invol=02-102\">decision<\/a>.  Who knows, I could even change my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t agree on much with my old schoolmate Eric Rasmusen, a newcomer to the weblog craze; but we&#8217;re similarly disturbed over Lawrence v. Texas. Scalia .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. probably would vote against the Texas sodomy law as a citizen. But as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}