Open Thread

So nearly right Expert but it is actually the sequel that is my all-time most watched.

Did you all pick your numbers?

Here you go, here are the answers.

Your number is:

1. Gone With The Wind.
2. Aliens.
3. Dances With Wolves.
4. Star Wars.
5. Forrest Gump.
6. Saving Private Ryan.
7. Jaws.
8. Doctor Zhivago.
9. The Joy Of Anal Sex with Male Goats & Old Leather Clad Gay Men .
10. Mary Poppins.

ET, no list of movies but on a quick glance the whole thing is set up to always add to 9 ie same result no matter initial input.

DIBS, I have no problem with interest groups (coprorations, unions, other interst groups) contributing money and trying to influence elections. I do have a problem with the view that the First Amendment prohibits reasonable limits on such spending, as if corporations, labor unions, and such have the same fundamental rights as people. And to make this ruling, the 5-4 politically conservative majority went waaay out of its way to reach out and make this ruling that it did not need make on this case, violating all the principles of judicial restraint, modesty, you name it, that the republicans who appointed these guys, and the judges themselves as nominees say they stand for. Did the corporate form exist at american law in 1789? If not, so much for originalism.

The Mass. election was bad for my team but otherwise a healthy expression of democracy. This ruling is far scarier and fundamentally un(small d)democratic.

http://www.slate.com/id/2242208/