Daily Archives: December 12, 2012

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SAG Award Nominations: Modern Family Will Continue to Be Nominated Until the End of Time

Urgh. Haven’t we all had enough of Modern Family? Sure, yes, it was a zingy little show that gave us interesting people who did funny things for a certain amount of time. But now, yes, now? It’s getting a little long in the comedy tooth for copious award nods is it not? Apparently the SAG Award voting block doesn’t seem to think so. On shall the Modern Family horse ride out into the desert wasteland of situation comedy until there is nothing left but Eric Stonestreet in a clown costume scaring the beejesus out of Zooey Deschanel. Continue reading

12/12/12: Weddings, Babies, Doomsday, and The Pope?

Are people really excited about this whole triplet digit day thing? Yes, apparently. For some people this is a day to be regaled with significant remembrance. For others, it’s yet another day drinking coffee and pretending to sit at your desk and work. Yay! for democracy, or something like that. Now then, who are the people all hopped up on numerology today. Continue reading

Seventh Circuit Finds Illinois ‘Concealed Carry’ Ban Unconstitutional

In an opinion by Judge Posner (he of the “let’s sell our organs and babies!” camp and probable #1 reason why he’ll never be on the US Supreme Court), the 7th Circuit yesterday released an opinion invalidating Illinois’s law forbidding a person from carrying a loaded gun in public, finding Illinois’s complete ban on concealed-carry permits to be unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment.  Continue reading