When Nixon died, it had been twenty years since he had resigned, and though my generation hadn’t lived through a day of his Presidency we all knew about his misdeeds. And yet - and yet - after his death, much of the media I was exposed to was “let’s talk about Nixon the President, not Nixon the scandal”.

And this is where constant “civility” discourse leads us. Not a thought in his head (I know I could end the sentence there, but lemme finish) about the effects his words have had on others, his unabashed racism, the violence he has encouraged his cult-like followers to inflict on others; no, it’s his tone that he…

That’s the thing I always hate when people start talking about changing voting systems. They’re not concerned with mathematical fairness, accurate reflection of the electorate’s will, or reduction of spoiler effects; it’s couched so often in how many “moderates” the system produces, as if reinforcing the status quo (or…

Oh, wow, they really do all just blend together enough that I can’t tell them apart anymore.

You say that as if Kemp actually intends to distance himself from it in any meaningful way. Even of Stachowiak he only managed to say “I certainly don’t agree with his extreme views”, without ever once to my knowledge stating which of those many views he had a problem with. Was it the anti-Muslim t-shirt, the “Trump…

Given his track record with breached servers, I expect this “investigation” to turn up no actual evidence linking any purported breach to anyone actually associated with the Democratic Party, but we’re going to be asked to take it on blind faith that it absolutely had to be a Democrat anyway. Possibly Abrams herself!

I voted, but I have no way of knowing if my votes were recorded or reported correctly, or at all. I’d like to think my vote mattered, but I have no way to tell.

You wanna put money down on whether he spells it “ya’ll”?

I should also note here that the question of Fair Use arose in Gaylord specifically because the court held that the copyright of the Korean War Veterans Memorial was neither held by the US Government nor was in the public domain - were it in the public domain, Fair Use doctrine would have never been in question. So I…

They made minor differences and that gets a pass quite frequently.

Do you have any references in which an art piece donated for display on public property was considered to be in the public domain merely by means of being donated? I don’t think I need to disprove a claim you have yet to prove actually exists.

You’re presenting a case about Fair Use (which applies to non copy write work), not Public Domain.

As for public domain, that could be successfully argued using their numerous attempts to give it to the public. Which is very much what erecting a monument on state grounds is. Educate yourself.

One comparison I like to make here is California versus Wyoming because it’s eye-opening. California has 55 electors, and Wyoming 3. If you go by voting-eligible population and assume 100% turnout, an individual voter from Wyoming has 3 times the ability to influence the Electoral College as an individual voter from…

The fuck is up with these Beckies who think that just because they live in a building/neighborhood it’s all theirs to police? Reminds me way too much of the chick who was trying to pull the “my building” card on the guy just trying to go home. Makes me glad the worst I have to worry about is the old lady who walks the…

There are five states (Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, and South Carolina) that at the state level only allow in-person voting by computerized voting machine with no printed verification of the ballot (some of these states may allow paper ballots, but only at the county/precinct level). The only paper…

In Georgia, we have no-excuse absentee ballots. However, they can take months to be processed and you have no recourse if your ballot reached you on the day it had to be postmarked to be returned and you have no way to get it back out before the following morning. Sure, you can call someone and ask if your ballot is…

It’s tighter than that since this isn’t about registration but TAVT, which has to be submitted to the state within 30 days of sale.

That would’ve fucked over my fiancee when she moved up to Georgia. The loan on her car was in two names, hers and her ex-boyfriend’s, and the loan company wouldn’t allow the loan to be transferred to her name without his sign-off. The problem? He was, at the time, being held by the Feds and she had no way to get in…

“But we need Confederate Monuments to remember our history!”, the Lost Cause fetishists cry. Meanwhile, a man has a print of a portrait of a man with more history than merely fighting in the war and claims to be ignorant of it. If we take him at his word, then no number of statues, portraits, reenactments, or…