Comments on: Dumb and Dumberererer

By: ttyler5 Houston

ttyler5 Houston — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:05:41 +0000

I knew it!!! I knew it!!!

I knew Leahy wore panties!

Of course, it was no secret about Kennedy, though.

He so often wears them on his head.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:48:00 +0000

If the restrictive covenant was on the appearance of the house, the news story you linked to was wrong. It describes it as a restrictive covenant on sales, i.e., who you can or cannot seel it to, not what you can or cannot do with it once you’ve purchased it. It also doesn’t make sense to say “While it had once protected its home values by enforcing restrictive covenants on sales, by the mid-1990s the SMRA began promoting the benefits of its racially integrated, activist, middle-class neighborhood” if the restrictive covenant in question had nothing to do with preventing the neighborhood from becoming racially integrated.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:23:19 +0000

They could have had to do with homogeneity in the appearance of the houses — you can’t build another story, or whatever. As if it matters.

Actus actually asked whether the covenants were only on houses in Victorian Flatbush, as opposed to the rest of Flatbush. Everyone is out of their minds.

By: Matthew J. Stinson

Matthew J. Stinson — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:42:47 +0000

I heard John Roberts once forgot to tie his shoes when he went out to play as a child.

I’m off to tell the AP about it.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:49:42 +0000

I don’t see how they could have been anything else. What other kind of restrictive covenants applied to sales, or had anything to do with the neighborhood’s racial homogeneity?

By: Patterico

Patterico — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:06:38 +0000

Actually, I can’t guarantee that the covenants to keep the area homogenous were racial in nature. Not that it really makes a difference, as I explained in the update.

By: Matthew Hoy

Matthew Hoy — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:55:26 +0000

If I recall correctly, either Feinstein or Boxer (I think it was Boxer), also had one of these meaningless things on their property. It was a minor embarrassment at the time, but it didn’t really matter because we know that only Republicans do evil things, and not Democrats.

The AP, however, deserves a swift kick in the butt for this one. I just keep shaking my head over it.