Good Test Case

I've been saying this for years. Finally a court case to see what happens.

If a woman can get an abortion, a man should be able to financially abort his responsibility for the child. And give up any parental rights. Until that happens, abortion should be illegal.

Women have wanted equal rights for years. The Equal Protection clause of the Constitution is without a doubt being violated by the differences in which parental decisions are treated legally.

No Federal Funding for Harvard

The Universities lost this round.  Today the Supreme Court ruled that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus no matter what they think of the military ban on gays. 

 

I actually agree with this decision.  I am against the federal government giving money to anyone, especially a college like harvard that has an endowment of several billion dollars from its alumni.  If the federal government is going to give anyone free money, it has the right to attach whatever strings it wants, much like an advertiser can have a "morals" clause in a contract it signs with Kobe Bryant. 

 

The best thing Harvard should do is say "fine, we don't want your money," but that reaction would surprise me.  Usually when someone or some group has the choice of losing money, or taking it up the ass on principles, they will gladly and quickly bend over.

 

That being said, the military ban on gay people is really dumb.  It has cost them  hundreds of millions of dollars in finding replacements for skilled workers who they banned after finding out they were gay.  It is also blatantly discriminatory.  Lastly, with all of our problems with recruiting people to serve, why close the doors on any specific group?

Crash Wins

Crash won for Best Picture tonight. I must say, I feel that it was the best out of the candidates, though I have not seen all of them. I thought that Brokeback Mountain would win. I have seen Brokeback; while it is a very good and passionate film, I think Crash was a more dynamic movie. It also had a faster pace and was overall more enjoyable.

It is rather interesting that it came to a contest betwee a movie about racism and a movie about gays to win the award. Perhaps our society is more comfortable about sorting out one mess before the next one. At any rate, I recommend to my readers to view both movies, at least once.

I also saw Walk the Line over the weekend, which was a very good movie. I'm surprised Joaquin Phoenix didn't win Best Actor for his great portrayal of Johnny Cash, including some very good singing. I highly recommend this movie as well.

Bottom line, see all of these movies, especially Walk the Line and Crash.