Non-Sequiturs: 06.26.08
* Gun enthusiasts are cheering the SCOTUS decision striking down the D.C. handgun ban. Indeed, it was a "call to arms" for the Illinois State Rifle Association-- they filed a suit challenging Chicago's handgun ban just 15 minutes after SCOTUS ruled. [CBS2Chicago]
* The man behind the opinion: Justice Scalia's juristic tour de force. [Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog]
* Sex sting. Do you need to know more? As if D.C.'s metro system doesn't have enough problems. [Washington Examiner]
* Beware the medicine you buy at Rite-Aid. [Courthouse News Service]
* Facebook wins! [New York Times]

What if the global economy stagnates--or even shrinks?
Can we keep Kash and get rid of SEN, please?
Respectfully, I don't get the preemptive SEN bashing. Seems like she's doing a great job this round.
6:57, I agree for the most part (if you ignore the "what are you doing over the summer?'" post). However, it's insulting that Lat would bring back SEN when his readership so clearly wanted her out. Instead of giving a shitty writer from a shitty school a second chance, why can't Lat just hire someone else like Kash who's good from the start?
New York City's ban is up next. Criminals beware.
Why so hard on Sharon? We write unending posts on the best places to eat around the country. Law school must be in the far-distance past for some of you - you've forgotten how grateful you were for that first summer.
6:57 - Hey dummy, what's so difficult to understand? You must not know that she doesn't go to Harvard, Yale, or even Stanford. Grotesque. Haven't you noticed that she occasionally writes fluff pieces and has previously exhibited less-than-perfect sentence structure?
If you think that doesn't earn you a hearty round of vitriolic comments every time you posted something that could have just as easily been ignored, then obviously you must have also gone to some TTT law school.
Get the fuck out of here! I'm surprised you can even read. Come back when you are as important as me. (me<---important)
SEN did well today. Congrats, SEN.
Greatest hit from Heller thread:
3:26: "Why can't people see that things work well in the middle ground? If we understand that 'certain sensitive areas' are permissible to restrict gun possession, why can't we agree that the U.S. Capitol and the White House and the 10 blocks in between might in fact be one of those places?"
9:18: "3:26, how many twenty-something cops and security guards do you think are already carrying guns in that little square you laid out?"
"This highlights the absurdity of the DC handgun ban. My problem with anti-gun people here and in law school is that they don't want me (mature veteran with a family) to have or carry a gun but they're totally cool with the 19-year old guy who runs the x-ray machine having one."
"Here's the secret: There's no magic wand they waive at police academy or Army boot camp where all of a sudden these guys are better qualified to carry than a head of household with the judgment and perspective that can only come with age and life experience. Anyone interested in weapon safety can learn just as much as any entry-level professional gun-carrier by taking a class on the weekend."
Lawyers are particularly susceptible to blindly trusting government employees to do things like carry firearms responsibly because we're obsessed with credentials. It's a mistake to blindly trust attorneys based on credentials and it's a bigger mistake to not trust your fellow citizens to carry based on [lack of] credentials.
Kash, you did well today, too. Didn't mean to leave you out- if not for Heller you'd have had a couple of comments clusterf**ks today.
Based on poor sentence construction, 10:18 = SEN.
That's sweet.
WOW- I thought there would be a cluster fuck on this one- anyone read the opinion? Its really a wild opinion- Scallia basically calls John Paul Stevens retarded.
I feel so much safer now LOL!!!
12:17,
Scallia is basically correct.