In landmark decision, Supreme Court rules that guns don't kill people

[Robert Lawless]

Believe it when it comes from Scalia. He is one of the worse jerks in a 
government of jerks.

Ronald Kephart wrote:
> On 6/28/08 1:58 AM, "Dennis Baron" <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>     Always ready to insult those who disagree with his
>     interpretations, J. Scalia called the linguistic analyses
>     supporting the D.C. law “unknown this side of the looking glass
>     (except, apparently, in some courses on Linguistics)” and “worthy
>     of the mad hatter”
>
>
> Dennis, Did he really say this? Do we really get this little respect? 
> Damn! No wonder my students don’t believe me when I tell them AAVE is 
> a perfectly normal form of language. It’s so weird that when I first 
> read your post I thought it was satire... Then I actually looked at 
> the brief.
>
> As I often say: We’re all doomed.
>
> Ron 

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