“The mind is a very fragile thing, and I strongly believe
that no stimulus and no words can go by without affecting a
person — I don’t claim to know more or less about what is
true or not, but I do believe in being pragmatic and using
ones own judgment and critical thinking to set the
boundaries for our actions.”
:sneaker, Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:44:19
I am taking most of the summer off from Stanford to attend to personal and business matters and to do some traveling. As a quick update, I finally fixed the CSS for the site so that it makes better use of the browser real-estate. Still plan on doing a couple more changes at some point in the future. Other than that most of the site is pretty stable. There are some new posts in the Thought section. Have a good summer!
In my previous post, I talked about the latest Supreme Court ruling being a slippery slope. And I was afraid of what would happen if Bush got to choose another justice for the supreme court. Unfortunately, with Sandra Day O’Connor resigning that is what is going to happen. I heard Justice O’Connor at the commencement speech at Stanford last year and was very impressed. Sorry to see her leave and even more sorry at the realization that the current POTUS is probably going to choose yet another conservative to the open position in the Supreme Court.
Some of the recent ruling of the US Supreme Court are just so apalling to me. Take this one for instance from yesterday (June 23, 2005): The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in one of its most closely watched property rights cases in years, that fostering economic development is an appropriate use of the government’s power of eminent domain.. That is just crazy. In a country that is supposedly built on the the foundations of freedom and the right of ownership, this really doesn’t seem right to me.
I’m about to OD on OS.
:sneaker, pre-quals