Sad News - Ginsburg Undergoing Surgery for Cancer

My very favorite Supreme Court Justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has pancreatic cancer. She is undergoing surgery.

She the only woman serving on the Supreme Court right now. She was the second woman ever appointed to the Court.

In the 60s and 70s she was known for her work in women's rights. More recently, she was a prominent dissenting opinion the Ledbetter vs Goodyear case. The case went in favor of Goodyear (against Fair Pay, essentially). As a result, the legislature overturned the decision and President Obama recently signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law, righting the wrong Ginsburg so passionately wrote about.

Currently, the Supreme Court often split 5-4 in favor of more conservative decisions. If Ginsburg were to step down because of her illness, there would not necessarily be a shift in that majority/minority.

Full covereage on NPR at

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100290115

Anybody: Get A Gun! The Supreme Court Says, "That's Cool. Whatev."

Phew! That was a close one. I thought for sure the right to bear arms would be in peril, but nope - anybody who's anybody has a right to own a handgun. This is clearly what was in mind when the second amendment was written, so says Fatty Boom Batty AKA JustUS Scalia.

Looky here for the full details on the Supreme Courts' 5-4 ruling today that the handgun laws in DC are against the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. I'm not really that surprised.

And now, I feel so much safer knowing that my slightly unstable neighbors who scream bloody murder at each other every night, the 18 year old angst ridden student and paranoid whackos everywhere can own a handgun, and no city can ban this "right".

Now, where did I put that NRA renewal membership notice? It's somewhere around here.

I'm off to the shooting range. See you later!