{"id":361,"date":"2004-05-18T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/05\/18\/a-quick-rant\/"},"modified":"2004-05-18T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T15:28:45","slug":"a-quick-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/05\/18\/a-quick-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a315'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ll write more later today because I&#8217;ve got some stuff to do now. But I have something I want to say (how Jerry Blank of me).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I really don&#8217;t want to keep beating a dead horse&nbsp; &#8211; so hopefully this will be my final gay marriage rant. I find it so ironic that yesterday, on the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, George W. Bush praised the judges for making&nbsp;the ruling that &#8220;separate is not equal&#8221; status among U.S. citizens.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Yet, later in the day, G.W. Bush basically said that &#8220;activist&#8221; judges were wrong in saying that separate is not equal when it comes to gay marriage. Make up your mind, Georgie. In your little head, are judges only legitimate when they make a decision that pleases you? <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Our government is set up with 3 branches as a means of checks and balances. The judicial system in the past has had to intervene when the executive and legislative branches fail to do their jobs. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>On a lighter note, I&#8217;m having dinner with a&nbsp;friend tonight. You see, I&#8217;m not all about politics. I have a fun side.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll write more later today because I&#8217;ve got some stuff to do now. But I have something I want to say (how Jerry Blank of me). I really don&#8217;t want to keep beating a dead horse&nbsp; &#8211; so hopefully this will be my final gay marriage rant. I find it so ironic that yesterday, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}