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High temp yesterday in TO: 25. Dewpoint then: 19. High dewpoint: 19.
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Forgot to mention yesterday that I'd read a surprisingly good article in Harper's by Cass Sunstein about strict constructionism (which Sunstein tendentiously calls "fundamentalism"), pointing out some of the seismic shifts in American constitutional law that would be entailed by reading according to the strict letter and the framers' intent. Some of the biggest ones have to do with the Fourteenth Amendment, which (as I discovered TAing Phil of Law class last year) has, on the face of it, been really massively over-read to support broad equality rights. Sunstein also points out that states would be permitted to establish official religions (since the First Amendment only prohibits Congress from establishing a religion)--I think he says that Clarence Thomas has argued that they should in fact be allowed to do so--and that, in general, it's questionable whether anything in the Bill of Rights would apply to the states.
Lots and lots of stuff to read, undermotivated to get through it. Need to start on stuff for TAing, supposed to read Don Quixote, still only halfway through D&P, never mind the other Foucault-Habermas stuff. Happened to notice The Fragility of Goodness on the shelf at York on Monday--I'm not sure what possessed me to pick it off, but I discovered it's a revised edition, which the one from WLU is not, so I guess it's a good thing I haven't started on that yet.
High temp yesterday in TO: 25. Dewpoint then: 19. High dewpoint: 19.
Old Skool Goth Nite at the Gay Bar! Gay Bar! did something distinctly unlike sucking. Best night of music in a club since
caspervonb at Anarchist's Cocktail. Complete with Crazy Old Man.Forgot to mention yesterday that I'd read a surprisingly good article in Harper's by Cass Sunstein about strict constructionism (which Sunstein tendentiously calls "fundamentalism"), pointing out some of the seismic shifts in American constitutional law that would be entailed by reading according to the strict letter and the framers' intent. Some of the biggest ones have to do with the Fourteenth Amendment, which (as I discovered TAing Phil of Law class last year) has, on the face of it, been really massively over-read to support broad equality rights. Sunstein also points out that states would be permitted to establish official religions (since the First Amendment only prohibits Congress from establishing a religion)--I think he says that Clarence Thomas has argued that they should in fact be allowed to do so--and that, in general, it's questionable whether anything in the Bill of Rights would apply to the states.
Lots and lots of stuff to read, undermotivated to get through it. Need to start on stuff for TAing, supposed to read Don Quixote, still only halfway through D&P, never mind the other Foucault-Habermas stuff. Happened to notice The Fragility of Goodness on the shelf at York on Monday--I'm not sure what possessed me to pick it off, but I discovered it's a revised edition, which the one from WLU is not, so I guess it's a good thing I haven't started on that yet.
