Today’s News in Brief
- Water isn’t always wet. Ice isn’t, for example, and steam only barely is, once it dissipates.
- While there are many sharp ideological differences between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, none have anything to do with the respective merits of democracies vs. republics (or, more precisely, between republican and non-republican democracies).
- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea isn’t really a republic, nor is it run by democratic people.
- More often than not, Best Buy isn’t.
- Seattle’s Best certainly isn’t.
- The American Hunters and Shooters Association is not a real group representing American hunters or shooters.
- The American Civil Liberties Union is not now, nor has it ever been, a union of Americans interested in protecting or advancing the cause of civil liberties.
H/t: Uncly-Wuncly, who is too sick to celebrate the fact that five whole Justices were able to figure out what should have been one of the most obvious Supreme Court decisions in history.
