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17th May 2010, 12:52 PM | #41 |
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17th May 2010, 01:24 PM | #42 |
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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17th May 2010, 11:59 PM | #43 |
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18th May 2010, 06:55 AM | #44 |
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A couple of years ago, someone posted here some statistics that presumed to show that the concordance between Thomas and Scalia was no bigger than between Thomas and someone like Souter or something like that. I have a hard time believing that, but I know these types of stats are certainly tracked. However, I wonder if that was a hair-splitting analysis, where it said they went different if even though they gave the same ruling, they used different analysis to derive their result? I can believe that Thomas often has different justification from Scalia (Thomas never met a precedent he couldn't overturn), but nonetheless, they coincidentally always come to the same conclusion...
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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18th May 2010, 07:08 AM | #45 |
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Here's one.
Although this was posted in an April Fools thread, the case is quite real ... and quite strange.
As I've mentioned in the past, Justices Scalia and Thomas almost always vote together on issues pertaining to civil liberites and the Bill of Rights... but they do not alsways agree on a rationale. Thomas, for example, took an absurd view that the very first right in the Bill of Rights is not an individual right at all but is actually a right of the States. Thus, if a State establishes an official religion, citizens have no legal cause to gripe. Justice Stevens ridiculed the proposal and no other Justice, not even Scalia, would defend it. |
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18th May 2010, 07:13 AM | #46 |
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18th May 2010, 10:02 AM | #47 |
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