Archive for October, 2009

Testing Twitter Integration

Once more try­ing to get Word­Press to tweet my blog posts with URL-​​​​shortening by bit​.ly. I think it will work this time. Update: It works!

Sort of Back

I am sort of back from hia­tus. Kind of. I got the site updated to lat­est Word­Press, some­thing I’ve been mean­ing to do for . . . um . . . a year now? Also added Twit­ter to the right hand side­bar and fixed the Wish­list page, which broke on August 17th, 2009, when Ama­zon started requir­ing all Web Ser­vice requests to be signed. I’ll be mak­ing changes to the Blogroll over the next few days. There are lots of places I want to add, and I want to add a cat­e­gory of friv­o­lous fun sites. Also, I made the site mobile-​​​​accessible. Actu­ally, I think I did, and I did it a few months ago. It looks [ . . . ]

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Scalia on the Meaning of the Latin Cross

The ongo­ing con­tro­versy over a Latin cross erected in 1934 on Fed­eral land in Mojave National Pre­serve to honor WWI dead reached the Supreme Court today on the ques­tion of whether Con­gress’ sale of the land where the cross sits to a pri­vate entity in an effort to remove the con­sti­tu­tional vio­la­tion itself vio­lated the injunc­tion order­ing the gov­ern­ment to remove the con­sti­tu­tional vio­la­tion. Photo by Eric Nys­trom, cour­tesy National Park Ser­vice The case is Salazar v. Buono, and oral argu­ments were held this morn­ing. Tran­script is here. The con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of the cross was not before the Court today. The ques­tion was [ . . . ]

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