Another Pen for Western Culture

Monday, January 09, 2006

Elsewhere I posted comments about Alito's confirmation hearings--and the 1960s. . . .

You're right about the dog and pony show. No doubt. It seems more about self-promotion than offering advice and consent to the president on the worthiness of his selection.

I would love to have a video of the hearings (or whatever they were) when men like John Jay and John Marshall were nominated to positions on the Court. I bet that would be an interesting contrast.

What's IMHO?

By S., at 12:12 PM, January 10, 2006
That just cracked me up!

If that sort of modern deconstruction of language and public discourse interests you, you might like Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business." (I don't recall much on whole language, but the themes are similar.)

By S., at 8:52 PM, January 10, 2006
Here's a good article called "Kennedy questions Alito's integrity?"

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/markalexander/2006/01/13/182315.html

By Anonymous, at 7:31 PM, January 15, 2006