Partisanship, Who Needs It?

Partisanship, Who Needs It?

Friday, May 29, 2009

Someone give David Brooks a Dictionary


I think he might need one


People without social emotions like empathy are not objective decision-makers.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objective
ob⋅jec⋅tive 

–adjective

5. not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion.

6. intent upon or dealing with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings, as a person or a book.


"Empathy" is just an excuse for judges not to uphold the law. Empathy is a good quality for a legislator tasked with writing and ammending the law, but not something I want to see in judges tasked with upholding to law in an imopartial manner.

Justice should be blind, we don't need to lift her blindfold.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Torture debate





Conservative radio host Eric Mancow admits waterboarding is torture

Video here.

Well that settles that.