Comments on: WARNING! Constitution Ahead http://bartlies.com/2010/06/09/warning-constitution-ahead/ Keeping track of the bloodshed in Indianapolis... and other stuff Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:29:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bart http://bartlies.com/2010/06/09/warning-constitution-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Bart Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:15:39 +0000 http://bartlies.com/?p=720#comment-128 I' heard they likely would file charges but not that they had. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll add this one. I’ heard they likely would file charges but not that they had. Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll add this one.

]]> By: Matthew Stone http://bartlies.com/2010/06/09/warning-constitution-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Matthew Stone Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:08:12 +0000 http://bartlies.com/?p=720#comment-126 What I meant to ask is I wasn't sure if this homicide was included in your running total. What I meant to ask is I wasn’t sure if this homicide was included in your running total.

]]> By: Matthew Stone http://bartlies.com/2010/06/09/warning-constitution-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Matthew Stone Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:07:40 +0000 http://bartlies.com/?p=720#comment-125 I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Some kid was intentionally struck by a car earlier in the year and recently died due to her injuries from the accident. I heard about it on WIBC, and the charges on the guy who allegedly did it have been upped to vehicular homicide. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

Some kid was intentionally struck by a car earlier in the year and recently died due to her injuries from the accident. I heard about it on WIBC, and the charges on the guy who allegedly did it have been upped to vehicular homicide.

]]> By: Bart http://bartlies.com/2010/06/09/warning-constitution-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Bart Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:44:11 +0000 http://bartlies.com/?p=720#comment-123 What galls me is (a) the PC-craziness of putting such a label on any of their product. Perhaps it would be warranted if they publish graphic sexual or violent material, but I doubt they do, (b) the implicit 'you can't think and decide for youselves so we'll do it for you' message and (c) the suggestion (even if unintentional) that the Constitution may be something parents should think twice about lettng their chidren read. If they put this on ALL their publications regardless of whether they think it's needed, then they are simply being lazy and therefore misleading those who are exposed to them. I don't discount the possibility that the notice is there because the country has become litigation-crazy, too. If the publisher is surreptitiously using this as a passive-aggressive dig at one political affiliation with which he has a beef, then that's yet another reason I don't like it. What galls me is (a) the PC-craziness of putting such a label on any of their product. Perhaps it would be warranted if they publish graphic sexual or violent material, but I doubt they do, (b) the implicit ‘you can’t think and decide for youselves so we’ll do it for you’ message and (c) the suggestion (even if unintentional) that the Constitution may be something parents should think twice about lettng their chidren read.

If they put this on ALL their publications regardless of whether they think it’s needed, then they are simply being lazy and therefore misleading those who are exposed to them. I don’t discount the possibility that the notice is there because the country has become litigation-crazy, too.

If the publisher is surreptitiously using this as a passive-aggressive dig at one political affiliation with which he has a beef, then that’s yet another reason I don’t like it.

]]> By: Matthew Stone http://bartlies.com/2010/06/09/warning-constitution-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Matthew Stone Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:17:57 +0000 http://bartlies.com/?p=720#comment-122 This book has been published since 2007 with no complaints, and it's a disclaimer put on all of their texts. The publisher said on the Alan Colmes show said he initially put this disclaimer on to shut up liberals about language used in other texts. I don't see what's so bad if they put it on all their documents. Though I'm surprised these docs are in a separate book. My history texts had most of these somewhere in the back near the Sources section. This book has been published since 2007 with no complaints, and it’s a disclaimer put on all of their texts. The publisher said on the Alan Colmes show said he initially put this disclaimer on to shut up liberals about language used in other texts.

I don’t see what’s so bad if they put it on all their documents. Though I’m surprised these docs are in a separate book. My history texts had most of these somewhere in the back near the Sources section.

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