Okay, so I'm in my Intro to American Gov. class...

And, upon hearing that the supreme court justices aren't elected and serve for life, this girl starts complaining about "how can that be, that's so unconstitutional".


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WTF! It's in the constitution! Therefore, it's constitutional. Pretty basic, I mean...

She seemed to think the word means something like "undemocratic" but even if that were the case:

1. The lack of a term limit is not undemocratic. Sorry, ducky, that's not what democracy means.
2. The justices are nominated and confirmed by the people we choose to make our laws for us. If it's not democratic for them to do that, how is it fair for them to make our laws? Am I missing something?
3. Besides, even if 1 and 2 make it undemocratic (and I'm not saying they don't)... THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS DESIGNED! The justices were supposed to be out of the way of politics. They can't do that if they have to keep being re-elected. I know, I know, you didn't realize that. It's okay. We've only been going over it for the past two weeks....


On another class-related note, my latin studies are helping me out a lot in Art History. Last week, I interrupted my professor's explanation of the early days of the empire when she mentioned I, Claudius to tell her that the classic club has been screening that weekly. Today, I defined the difference between the Parthenon and the Pantheon, and also translated the words on the Pantheon. That was an amusing diversion.

*huggles* Thank you glitzy!

*kisses her edna the zafara stamp*


Remember when she was just Edna the witch?

(no subject)

I saw this commercial a little while ago, by the people who brought us the no-smoking-in-bars law:

There's this guy talking to his friend, complaining about how, now that nobody can smoke in restaurants or bars, they'll clear out, "just like the subway when they made that rule" and now it'll all be empty. When he's done, you see the screen saying that since it didn't happen when they banned smoking in the subways, it won't happen now.

Nice enough, except there's a glaring logical error, namely that subways aren't restaurants or bars. We don't CHOOSE to ride the trains, we do, however, choose to go out to eat instead of staying home. If you want to smoke when you eat, you can go out to Jersey, try riding the trains in Jersey just to smoke during your commute! It's not a comprable situation at all!

Honestly, the public service commercials in New York are pretty bad, it's like after 9/11, they made a big deal in all the commercials about the new marathon motto: United We Run. (How's that for a non sequitur?)

Time for today's quiz!

You are a tabby cat. The total home-body. You'd be
content just to stay at home all day and not
get up from the couch. You lazy sloth! Try and
make a movement every now and then, or someone
might decide to bury you in the back yard!


What color of cat are you?
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I'm a tabby. Well, duh, all cats are, technically, tabbies, even the ones that aren't. And there's three different types of tabbies: Mackeral pattern, classic pattern, spotted pattern. Bet you didn't know that!

Incidentally, where he says "you are a tortoiseshell or calico cat" well, all calicos are, of course, torties, but not all torties are calicos. A calico is a tortie who has white over at least 30% of her (must be her, there are no male calicos, you need two x chromosomes to have a calico cat as both the white and the orange alelles are carried on the x) body.