Friday, July 04, 2003

Although we at MRJEFF3000 have long been aware of the NPR news quiz show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, we have only just recently been made aware of Adam Felber's Fanatical Apathy. A sample:

Review of Less-Publicized Rulings from the Supreme Court’s 2002-2003 Term

Baird vs. Texas
– Ruling overturned the conviction of a Laredo man in a robbery wherein the prosecution’s case consisted solely of the facts that "he was black, and he was nearby."
Vote: 8-1
From the dissenting opinion (Clarence Thomas): "The man clearly looked guilty. This ruling opens the door for more and more "uppity" behavior from negroes everywhere. As Frederick Douglas might have written, black people don’t need your charity, they need a little discipline."

Kradick vs. Texas: Ruling overturned a murder conviction against a Tomball man who opted not to sleep with his girlfriend, thus failing to impregnate her.
Vote: 6-3
From the dissenting opinion (William Rehnquist): "Have we come to place so little value on human life that we can deafen ourselves to the cries of an infant whose right to be conceived was so grossly violated? Shame, shame…"

Turling vs. Black People: Ruling found a new Texas law making black people illegal to be unconstitutional.
Vote: 8-1
From the dissenting opinion (Thomas): "Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that it’s "okay" to be black. This is affirmative action at its most dangerous. Honestly, I don’t know what the other guys were thinking on this one."


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