Okay, I know the five members of the SCOTUS who wear mitres on their heads are pathetic, but the poster child for incredible ignorance, Justice Scalia has totally lost it now.Our Constitution is being held up to the example of a fictional character. No not Jesus, but Jack Bauer. Apparently, a Canadian jurist pissed off our Justice Scalia when he expressed his thankfulness that security personnel around the world don’t ask themselves, “What would Jack Bauer do?”Justice Scalia said that no jury would convict Bauer of engaging torture or denying habeas corpus to a citizen. And they certainly would not get away with convicting Bauer in his courtroom. Let’s not tell Justice Scalia that Jack Bauer is really a fictional character and doesn’t exist. It might ruin the show “24″ for him. Peter Nuhn
Kill your television…
…kill it today. TV is toxic. I have no idea what the show 24 is about except that there is a ticking clock on the bottom of the screen.
Scalia’s going to kick the bucket soon. Good riddance you fat ignorant slob!
Haven’t watched TV in a year. My children never have. What I want to know is who thinks they have time to waste like that.
I watch the glass teat all the time. It helps me keep a finger on the pulse, so to speak.
No TV here either. It’s interesting to note the cultural effects of the one eyed monster, especially the ads.
One person in a group is reminded of something in a commercial and most everyone present knows immediately what the reference is. They’ve all seen that ad dozens, maybe even a hundred times.
It seems impossible that any judge, let alone a supreme would make such a statement and still keep his job.
“Let’s not tell Justice Scalia that Jack Bauer is really a fictional character and doesn’t exist. It might ruin the show “24″ for him.”
Well, let’s not tell Justice Scalia that Jesus is really a fictional character and never existed. It might ruin his Bible show.
Wow…din’t the “bomb thrower” miss the entire point of that article…
Who disagrees with Scalia’s following statement…?
Scalia is one of the greatest legal minds of our time…
Is it any wonder “bomb thrower” has never found the Truth…
And for once I agree with “What”…
Protecting his kids from tv is noble…
I’m just wondering how he justifies wasting his time in front of a computer monitor…talk about hypocrisy…
Computers are interactive, TV is passive.
Scalia is a no talent ass clown who was appointed for one issue only.
The correct dissenting opinion should have been “civil rights are not to be curtailed during wartime…Evaaaar.”
I don’t ever recall reading a similar statement from Paine or Jefferson.
Are you afraid someone on tv is going to jump out & stab them all? Or do you censor all information that you deem is non xian? No watching PBS w/ naked villagers? What is it?
The great thing about the computer is, unlike the tv, you can filter out all the celebrity & nonsense bullshit that the proletariat is only interested in. It’s also a great educational resource, J’?tudie fran?ais sur le ordinateur.
mxracer,
T.V. can be a great educational resource too, if you watch the right channels.
mxracer, you had better revise your le?on or check your software. That should be “le fran?ais” et “l’ordinateur”.
My children don’t watch TV because it acts as a significant impedance to free thought in my household. In Phreedies household the most significant impedance to free thought would be himself. I expect that his children will just “tune” him out.
Phreedm,
If you agree with him, aren’t you also calling yourself a hypocrite?
Phreedem
“I’m just wondering how he justifies wasting his time in front of a computer monitor…talk about hypocrisy…”
That?s one of the dumbest things that I’ve read from him, then again I’m pretty new to the blog.
EAC:
Every once in a while I can tune in PBS, and ABC is viewable 50% of the time, other than that, I only get NBC & CBS….out of a different state.
bernarda:
D’oh, blasted francophones are there to stir up every typo
l’ordinateur=computer?
You know you’re old when your French Textbooks from college don’t even list the word “computer”.
mxracer, don’t worry about it too much, and I was just trying to be helpful. As a French friend told me when I was learning French long ago, “Ne penses pas trop des erreurs, les fran?ais font des erreurs tout le temps”.
The same is true for anglophones with English.