Obama flunks Constitution 101

We heard echoes of this in the primaries, so I shouldn’t really be surprised that Barack Obama thinks that the Brennan and Burger courts “overreached.”  Greenwald:  . . .  given that the defining rulings of those decades have long formed the bedrock of the progressive understanding of the Constitution and the judiciary, that the dominant [...]

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This is encouraging…

New FDA voting procedures are being put in place.  The new procedures, announced April 26, address some of the issues raised by the report. Beginning May 1, 2010, device advisory panels will no longer vote on whether to recommend product approval or conditions of approval. Instead, an FDA spokesperson said in an interview, panels would vote on [...]

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Is it Friday yet?

It all started on Monday when my week got tossed upside down at work. Then Sweetie came home and told me that, yes, the ax had fallen on some guys in his departments at the school district. I finally understand how you were feeling last year, he said, referencing the three RIFs my company went [...]

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What Susie Said

Yes, yes, yes!

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Around the tubes: Sick Pay, Oil, Democratic Values

I’d love to see this happen, but given how ardently our Congress supports business interests at the expense of individual Americans, I doubt it will make it out of committee. Only 25 percent of low-wage workers have paid sick leave, which makes it a financial hardship for them to get sick and miss work. Those [...]

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Dems don’t just have a “young voter” problem, they have an identity crisis

chatblu slices and dices Chris Cilizza’s piece about unmotivated Democratic voters, Democrats’ young voter problem Obama and the Democrats have more than just a young voter problem, they have a base problem. chat notes: The article admits that the Republican base is markedly more enthused about the forthcoming election that the Democrats are, but does [...]

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Sin

Freethought quote for the day: Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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Should Blue Lyon go away?

No, not like Joe Cannon. In recent months I’ve been toying with the idea of changing my blog name. When I started this blog back in June 2005, I was a dedicated Democrat, working hard to see the Democratic Party expand in my little red rural county in Nevada. Hence, I chose the name Blue Lyon. But [...]

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How do you void what doesn’t exist?

On the one hand, one judge has ruled that a lesbian couple married in Massachusetts can be granted a divorce.  Judge Scott Jenkins ruled in February that Angelique Naylor and Sabina Daly, who were married in 2004 in Massachusetts, had the legal right to divorce in Texas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott attempted to intervene [...]

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Can you have your tuna and eat it too?

Rarely. Check out this article on what fish contains the highest portion of mercury.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has its own action level for mercury, which applies to commercially sold seafood. At 1 ppm, it’s twice the EPA limit (which applies only to consumer catches of sport fish). A couple of samples of [...]

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