This one has been bothering me for a while, and I am surprised I forgot to bring it up. When Buffy died the first time, Faith was spawned, and there were now two slayers. Why was another slayer spawned when Buffy died again, making it three. Because Faith still existed?
Open Threads
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Halfway through Season #7, which I like a helluva lot more than season 6, and tghere are several questions that have not been addressed adequately by the series: 1.) Other than Warren and those two Germans, why doesn’t someone just shoot Buffy? Or poison her? Or something other than hand-to-hand? 2.) Which also makes me …
Judicial Nastiness
Ted Kennedy puts down the martini glass and pens a piece for the WaPo: The president should reject the pressure of the extreme factions of his party that want litmus tests for his nominee. This process shouldn’t just be about whether the next justice would help roll back women’s rights by overturning Roe v. Wade …
Happy 4th
The Pledge
The WaPo, as part of their weekend 4th of July celebration, revisits the Pledge of Allegiance. They list the pledge as it has appeared over the years (there are three versions– the whole God bit was inserted in 1954), and they asked 19 people to write their own variations. My favorite two are Christopher Buckley: …
This Could Get Ugly
At the height of the Clinton hatred, what upset the right the most was not Clinton’s actual sins, but that he seemed to be capable of always getting away with them. No matter what was thrown at him, he shrugged it off- which just INFURIATED people, sending them into a frothing rage. If this Drudge …
Disorder In the Court
Sometimes you can tell a pretty good story by just snipping a couple quotes together and letting them speak for themselves. This is one of those occasions. Stephen Carter on over politicization of the court: On issues from abortion to affirmative action to criminal procedure, it has often been Justice O’Connor’s unpredictable vote that determines …