Office by Alex Penny
Herein be random ruminations on politics, history, ideas, spirituality, religion, education, media, life, relationships, culture... and Boston sports when I really want to vent.
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." (ubiquitous)
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and never will." (Frederick Douglass)
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." (Susan B. Anthony)
"Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible." (William Sloane Coffin)
Somehow “judicial activism” is associated with liberal judges, but conservatives were the ones who created ex nihilo a whole new life form, the corporate “fictional person” — and then gave these “persons” the freedom to impose their interests on real people like you and me. Pay attention to where the threats to democracy really come from.
Female employees at Wal-Mart brought the largest sex discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history, which the Supreme Court threw out by a(nother) 5-4 vote this year. Despite overwhelming statistical evidence of discrimination in promotions, the Court’s majority ruled it could not proceed as a class action suit unless every single woman could prove direct harm to herself — a standard which will pretty much inoculate corporate America against class action suits in general.
Among the four-member minority were all three of the Court’s women. Go figure.
With this decision and their excerable Citizens United decision allowing corporate “persons” to dominate our electoral system with unlimited bribery (campaign contributions) which — astonishingly — this Court equates with free speech, our nation’s Highest Court has given new meaning to the term “Associate Justices.”
