From Twitter 08-14-2010

[scarfman]

• 09:27:20: RT @ebertchicago: Too many Americans believe the Constitution guarantees only their rights.
  
• 16:12:44: I have never been able to suss the meaning of the idiom "Bitch, please." from context.
  
• 16:23:55: So Mayor WIlkins is marrying Mother Petrelli on #himym
  
• 16:59:48: Joanna Lumley goes on #topgear and Jeremy Clarkson doesn't feel need to introduce her with anything but her name.
  
• 21:04:03: #AKOTAS updated: true story. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2278.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
  

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Comments

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Too many Americans believe the Constitution guarantees only their rights.

I've seen that a lot lately too. *sigh*

Joanna Lumley was AWESOME on Top Gear.

I need some kind of General Semantics icon.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

09:27:20: RT @ebertchicago: Too many Americans believe the Constitution guarantees only their rights.

Do you mean that they believe it only guarantees their rights, and not those of other people, or do you mean that they believe it only guarantees their rights, and doesn't specify other workings and operations of the government (along with less-pleasant things, such as its long enshrinement of the legal status of slavery in the highest law of the land)?

16:12:44: I have never been able to suss the meaning of the idiom "Bitch, please." from context.

"I express disbelieve laced with contempt not only at your opinion, but that you would actually be willing to voice such an absurd position in public."

Re: I need some kind of General Semantics icon.

[scarfman]

I can't speak for certain for the retwitted, but I took it to mean, "guarantees their rights and not others'." Or, the way I've phrased it in the past, though regarding only one of the rights in the Constitution, "A lot of people seem to think that 'freedom of religion' means the other guy has to keep his where you can't see it. Hello? Hello?"