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The 9th circuit ruled to extend the stay on gay marriages until they can hear the appeal in December. Which means no gay weddings this week. Sorry guys.
What this does mean is that this case is one step closer to the Supreme Court(SC), which is what the lawyers are banking on. However I’m suspect that Perry v Schwarzenegger will ever make it to the highest court in the land. Which is a good or a bad thing, depending how you look at it.
First consider that Judge Walker specifically crafted the wording and the logic of his verdict to appeal to Scalia, a member of the conservative wing of the SC. Which basically is a very clever maneuver forcing one of the Court’s most conservative members to choose to go against his own logic or approve gay marriage nationwide. Furthermore, given the rather conservative make-up of the current Court makes me think that the Supremes won’t event take it up.
The original Starcraft came out when I was a wee lad of 12, and as my grades in middle school can attest, promptly consumed inordinate amounts of time. Blizzard Entertainment, the company that produced the game, has always managed to not only produce games with epic story lines and memorable characters but also accompany that with a finely balanced multiplayer aspect that takes what should be a 30 hour game at most and turn into a years long addiction.
Starcraft 2:Wings of Liberty is definitely a heir to that legacy.
Brain is still fried from summer classes. Here’s Matthew Yglesias on the most recent employment figures:
The new unemployment report highlights the fact that the economy remains lousy and John Boehner is going to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ironically, it also demonstrates the bankruptcy of Boehner’s way of thinking. The new conservative orthodoxy has been that somehow teachers, police officers, guys who repair street signs, bus drivers, librarians, etc. don’t have “real jobs” and that police departments, roads, trains, buses, libraries, etc. don’t contribute to economic growth. In those terms, the unemployment report was actually fine—the private sector added 71,000 jobs, which isn’t the greatest number in human history but it’s okay.
The losses came from the public sector. And they were foreseeable. And they were foreseen by the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate and the majority of House members and a majority of Senators. And the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate and the majority of House members and a majority of Senators voted for bills that would have prevented that. But because in the Senate a minority of members can get their way, action wasn’t taken. Consequently, we have a horrible jobs number. Which would be bad enough, but the way the American political system works, the minority party that prevented the majority from addressing the crisis will accrue massive political benefits as a result of the collapse.
Conservatives won’t admit it today, but what we’re looking at is a major breakdown of the logic of the American political system.
Because we all know that if you can put it into a pie chart it must be true here are the terrible consequences of yesterday’s ruling that proposition 8 is unconstitutional:
Do no evil
Google’s inevitable dominance of anything that can be digitized continues as Google TV nears release:
This will probably lead to the usual hue and cry from current television networks and cable providers but in the end this will be a boon for content producers. The Internet is excellent for eliminating middle-men and at the end of the day that’s all the networks are: companies that own the rights to airwaves that have carried programs for the past century. Yet much like it has allowed musicians and authors the freedom to self-produce without studios or publishing houses, the Internet is poised to do the same to television producers. They’ve just lacked a connection between the net’s storage and search capabilities and the medium itself. Google TV will provide that.
All of which is a long way of saying: Hang on to your butts, the ride ain’t over yet.