tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post3528609745606447744..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Writing Honestly About The Death Of A Famous PersonStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-74910663282726578862016-03-01T21:27:40.416-09:002016-03-01T21:27:40.416-09:00The link both supports my sense of Scalia and his ...The link both supports my sense of Scalia and his use of originalism as a cover for personal bias, and is extremely disturbing. As a university faculty member, I say it's also believable. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-54486994922935071892016-03-01T18:22:53.515-09:002016-03-01T18:22:53.515-09:00My sense is that Scalia was profoundly certain he ...My sense is that Scalia was profoundly certain he was right.<br /><br />Scalia was apparently profoundly <a href="http://gawker.com/black-former-law-students-of-antonin-scalia-recall-unfa-1759753655" rel="nofollow">glad to be white</a> too.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-40035201441591920642016-02-18T12:27:12.234-09:002016-02-18T12:27:12.234-09:00Ah yes, Plutarch's Lives. I need to go back a...Ah yes, Plutarch's Lives. I need to go back and reread that. It's been a while. Thanks for reminding me. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-39130462428067341002016-02-18T12:26:13.940-09:002016-02-18T12:26:13.940-09:00American politics have often been bitter and curre...American politics have often been bitter and currently we haven't had any duels among Congress members. It seems we have to not lump all the conservatives into one group. Some are just venting their own personal issues. Some are simplistically diagnosing the nation's problems. Some are smart and genuinely troubled, seeing the direction of the country is taking as calamitous. (On the left people feel the same way about where the right would go.) And some divide the world between winners and losers and will do anything to not be in the loser category. Each need to be handled differently, some it's probably hopeless. But those who ultimately are in it for the future of their grandkids, are potentially reachable. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-16372553357633299492016-02-18T12:15:46.779-09:002016-02-18T12:15:46.779-09:00Anon, this is one of the most troubling cases. But...Anon, this is one of the most troubling cases. But it also shows that Scalia wasn't bound by his religion. (See <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia for irony icons.)</a> My interest is in how seemingly intelligent people can be so wrong. But how to do that without reflecting on the possibility that you yourself are wrong?<br />My sense is that Scalia was profoundly certain he was right. And Ginsburg also believes she’s right. What differentiates those people who fall in Scalia’s camp and those who fall in Ginsburg’s? <br />There are big questions here. How does upbringing affect one’s certainty and basic beliefs? What role does genetics play? Is this just a variation of the old <a href="http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-utilitarianism-and-deontology/" rel="nofollow"> conflict between deontology and utilitarianism?</a> My philosophy consultant says it's a little more complicated than that. Will get back to this. Thanks for the comment.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-76087642712126733902016-02-17T22:47:22.924-09:002016-02-17T22:47:22.924-09:00Plutarch did a pretty good job of writing the obit...Plutarch did a pretty good job of writing the obits of those who knew power. Never considered it his job to gloss the clash of persona and person and came up with what are timeless works in the field of biography. <br /><br />Justice Scalia is certainly a man who makes a good story for all of us to learn from, whatever our politics.Jacob Dugan-Brausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287631724339961459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-25037290912926256662016-02-17T19:37:28.268-09:002016-02-17T19:37:28.268-09:00If I were required to add a positive statement I c...If I were required to add a positive statement I could state that Justice Scalia could have had at least as many friends as did Theodore Robert Bundy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-65073219148765905522016-02-17T19:32:25.377-09:002016-02-17T19:32:25.377-09:00Scalia says there’s nothing unconstitutional about...Scalia says there’s nothing unconstitutional about executing the innocent.<br /><br />by Ian Millhiser Aug 17, 2009 5:00 pm <br /><br />"Joined by Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent, however, Justice Antonin Scalia criticized his colleagues for thinking that mere innocence is grounds to overturn a conviction:<br /><br /> <b>This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable.</b>"<br /><br />Source: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/17/56525/scalia-actual-innocence/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-21493530221527671012016-02-17T19:28:40.348-09:002016-02-17T19:28:40.348-09:00Slightly off your point, I immediately thought of ...Slightly off your point, I immediately thought of how annoyed I was when Nixon died and all the living presidents not only showed up for his funeral but said nice things about him. This was hard for me to swallow, since I thought Nixon had brought us closer to a Constitutional crisis than any other president (that was before the Supreme Court hijacked the 2000 election). Obviously a lot of people, including Clinton and Carter, thought respect for the office trumped disapproval of the individual's behavior. Not sure if I would have decided the same way had I been invited.<br /><br />But as an exciting mind game, now that Republicans have demonstrated that they can never separate the office from the individual, let's imagine what will happen at Obama's funeral. Will any Republicans attend, and if so, will they leap up and yell "Liar!" or "Traitor!" as the coffin goes into the ground?kathy in KYnoreply@blogger.com