Dr. X's Free Associations

Happy Thanksgiving

DrX — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:21:24 -0600

Thanksgiving 1951 One more below the fold.

Vintage Photos: c 1940

DrX — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:02:00 -0600

Location unknown. Left-click image to enlarge.

Vintage Photos

DrX — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0600

Lucy Naddy (left) and her younger sister. Left-click photo to enlarge. Lucy and her brother Richard (below), who lived at 6931 Stoney Island Avenue, Chicago, were arrested and charged with larceny on complaint from a neighbor, Mrs. Lena Payne.

Marijuana for Children with Autism

DrX — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:52:32 -0600

I'm not about to recommend it, but a mother claims that medical marijuana saved her son's life. Video.

Vintage Photos: 1922

DrX — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0600

Winnemucca, Nevada. Left-click photo to enlarge. The first service station built in Winnemucca. It was operated by Fritz and Emil Buckingham.

The Whackadoodle Suffix

DrX — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:58:43 -0600

Call it a vast linguistic conspiracy: proponents of the major conspiracy theories of the day — the truthers, the birthers, the deathers — share a suffix that makes them all sound like whackdoodles. Leslie Savin

Judicial Activism and Conservative Originalism

DrX — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:08:05 -0600

For readers who are interested in political debate about constitutional interpretation, Ed Brayton offers an excellent discussion of originalist interpretation. According to Brayton, there are three types of conservative originalism:There is original intent originalism, which Madison pretty explicitly rejects in the quote you offered. There is original public meaning originalism, which Madison seems to endorse. And there is original expected application originalism, which is mostly rejected even by advocates of originalism (though they almost always use rhetoric which flows from...

Sunday Bonus Photo: 1939

DrX — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:40:56 -0600

Gas station on US 99 between Tulare and Fresno (Dorothea Lange).

Vintage Photos: 1918

DrX — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0600

Washington, D.C, October 1918. Left-click photo to enlarge. Police confront National Woman's Party pickets on Constitution Avenue. Women near the front of the line are arrested as police seize their suffrage banners.

Cat Climbs Cop

DrX — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:38:20 -0600

A Taylor Texas police officer attracts a persistent cat. Story