Friday, April 18, 2025

US v. Commissioner of Baseball


In Dobbs, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now,  rumors have it, the DOJ under Attorney General Pam Bondi is filing to overturn Schenck.The opinion, written by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1919, famously injures against “crying fire in a crowded theater.” In a separate case US v. Commissioner of Baseball, the court ruled 5-4 against rules in sports. Such shibboleths as the 3 bases plus home plate requirement, the right of the team with the higher score to win, together with prohibitions about drunken fans throwing beer bottles at players they don’t like have been deemed unconstitutional. America will be great again if citizens are allowed to have fun. The new line of originalist thinking propagated by justices Alito and Thomas, of course, makes exceptions for DACA dreamers who are not allowed to have any fun or freedom. Anybody can now exercise their First Amendment rights in crying “fire,” but the bad criminal who allegedly started the fire will be forced to relinquish their right to a trial before being sent to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador--forever.

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

and listen to "Twenty-Five Miles From Home" by Edwin Starr

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