Because It's Not About Harriet Miers, Judicial Activism, Or Anything In That Vein

So I've been so fixated lately on the Miers nomination, and languishing without weekend internet access, and I miss things. I strongly recommend this discussion, among a group of friends (well, I suppose Emily's the one I really know; the others are nice people I've met through her), if you're interested in speech acts as acts in furtherance of violence, violent acts of a sort unto themselves, or acts of discrimination. Do it in this order (in the tradition of Star Wars, and because I imagine these topics exist in a perpetual state of in medias res (because the res simply has neither beginning nor end), I number from four through six):

Fourth Thing.

Fifth Thing (this actually follows Sixth Thing in time, but just to mix it up it's fine here)

Sixth Thing.

I'd say more but a) I have to think about it some more, as I just read it; and b) Blogger for some reason is running about a two second delay on my text box, so I'm having a lot of trouble typing while I watch the cursor track across a neutral visual space like an Arctic whiteout. Even my corrections lag; and if I do this much longer so will my typing, my eyesight, and quite possible the quality of my thought as well, which really doesn't have a lot of facility to sacrifice to the creeping white oblivion.

I'm obviously punchy this afternoon, though I don't know why, but in any case he topic under discussion is not only worthy, it's worthy of discussion by someone feeling more on the ball than I do at the moment. Check it out.