The California Supreme Court have just made a gift of the Presidency to John McCain

And quite possibly saved the Republican Party from defeat. As the nationwide results of their usurpation of legislative power become clear (for gay activists intend to use the details of California law to start a series of cases across the nation - a crazed strategy, but they cannot admit to themselves just how unpopular their case is) the anger of the values voters at Republican corruption and contempt for them will be overwhelmed by their concern at this development. If millions of values voters were quite likely convinced to vote Shrub four years ago by the example of Massachussets (which had no nationwide significance, because Mass. law did not allow outsiders to marry against their home state laws) and of Canada, what will happen if the whole presidential campaign is dotted by assaults on state law across the country? These people ought to have waited until Obama was elected and a Democratic majority safely returned to Congress. If this decision had been passed one year hence, they would probably have Obama in the White House to turn his handsome smile on it, and a filibuster-crushing majority in both Houses. Instead, they have given any Republican who wants to seize it (I cannot speak for the Specters of this world) an opportunity to fight like a junkyard dog. They just never seem to have any sense.

Sounds like helixaspersa has an easy job

She certainly has the intellect to make a formidable supervillainess. And the looks. And the code name...
All the same, as a superhero fans since before most of my f-list was born, I just had to do this.

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To anyone on my f-list who can read French

I just got hold of a .pdf version of Julien Benda's famous denunciation of the intellectuals' surrender to Fascism, La Trahison des Clercs. I only just started reading it, but it sounds like everything that it has been said to be: strong, brave, clear-headed and with the marble-like clarity that the best French prose affords. What is above all significant is its defence of democracy as the proper place for the life of the mind. One passage (translated): Such a posture is a flagrant betrayal of the values of the intellect, since Democracy amounts in its principles (but it is its principles that its opponents call into question, and not, as they pretend to, their misapplication) to a fundamental assertion of those values, especially thorugh its respect for justice, truth and the individual person. Any free mind must recognize that the ideal written in the Declaration of the Rights of Man or the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 is an intellectual ideal. And it is likewise undeniable that democracy, through its grant of individual liberty, implies an element of disorder. "When," says Montesquieu, "you can perceive no noise of conflict throughout a State, you may be sure that there is no freedom there."

I will send a copy to anyone who asks for one.