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Losing Makes Ya Crazy

At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for Stephen Calabresi's latest in the Chicago Tribune.


Seriously, I have neither the time nor the energy to make this shit up. Obama's too young to be President, based on some bullshit stretching of "living Constitution" interpretation. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you, Calabresi? Did all that proximity to Posner make you crazy? Or have you drunk your own Kool-Aid, what with being fellated by Federalist Society pukes too stupid to figure out that your interpretations were nonsense?

Okay, I know I don't have the kind of readers the Trib does, but let me set the record straight. A "living Constitution"-alist doesn't get to change the text of the Constitution just because they, you know, want to, and to score points. There has to be an amibiguity in the text (like, say, "What's 'commerce'?"), and then the living Constitution says that we should prefer a modern interpretation, because, hey, we're modern. Some of us might even be postmodern.

"Thirty-five" is, I'm sorry to say, not ambiguous. And Calabresi's op-ed isn't clever, or witty, or even satirical. It's just fuckin' stupid.

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).