Open Thread

Oh come on, Legion. Someone saying that a statement shows “retrograde thinking” is not an ad hominem attack. If he said, “You are a brainless moron with retrograde thinking” then yes, you would be right. But he did not say that.

And calling people you are debating with brainless morons, or much worse, has certainly been done here, and it is not an acceptable or effective way to make one’s point.

since it’s your birthday……

Dona, they all thought it was cute.
The biggest Mets fan in the family got my kid (who is less than a year old) a Mets Onsie and had his name put on it, a Mets bib and two Mets T-shirts (larger size). He also got him a foam baseball bat and ball.

fyi – I hate clothes with team logos.
but what can I do. He wears them.

cmu’s comment was not directed at you. It was a comment on Republican politicians.

Nothing ridiculous about it bxgrl, that’s exactly how things work in the real world. The Supreme Court basically makes up rights if it thinks it’s the right thing to do and then writes opinions justifying it with ex-post legal reasoning. There are lots of people who make a living out of debating the intellectual merits of this stuff (intellectual circle-jerkers like Constitutional Law professors), but the fact is the Supreme Court as an institution gets to do this. It’s just that simple.

[I don’t want to pull the “I was first in my law school class” thing, but I was.]