Non-Sequiturs: 07.06.12

* We might need to do a full summer contest to determine the cast for the SCOTUS/Health Care movie. Greg Kinnear as Roberts and Danny Glover as Thomas are no-brainers, but I’m not fully sold on the rest. [Washington Post (gavel bang: Dahlia Lithwick)] * Man who tried to frame his neighbor for child porn had his sentence upheld. Midwestern hospitality for the win. [StarTribune] * I’m not at all surprised that cops can text you from your drug dealer’s phone and best you. I am surprised that people are sending drug texts to their dealers. You have a higher expectation of privacy smoking drugs in a park than you do sending texts to your hook-up. [Not-So Private Parts / Forbes] * Michael Bloomberg will have to pry this burger from my cold dead hands, which should be pretty easy to do after this burger kills me. [WSJ Law Blog] * IbetthebotchedSanDiegofireworksdisplaywillendinalawsuit,s***allmywordsarehappeningsimultaneously.[Gawker] * The ACLU didn’t like my criticisms of the Declaration of Internet Freedom. They say: “Of course there’s a place in this world for a 4,400 word (length of US Constitution) policy roadmap, but there’s also room for a declaration of some basic principles in order to clarify and solidify public support for them.” The actual The U.S. Constitution is of course revered as one of the shortest written constitutions in the modern world. The Declaration of Independence was only 1,458 words. My blog post about the Declaration was just 1,099 words. I guess what I’m saying is: does everything important now have to be reduced to a Twitpic, or can we spill a little more ink on the basic principles of the internet? [ACLU]