Your choices for president: an android, a creationist neurosurgeon or a postcoital cat

Your choices for president: an android, a creationist neurosurgeon or a postcoital cat:

The absurdly long run-up to the US election has begun. This will be the first presidential election fought since further limits were lifted on campaign funding: a change brought in on the grounds of “free speech”, when the supreme court decided that the Koch brothers not being able to say, “We own the president,” infringed their rights under the first amendment.

Writers plying their trade to the highest paying giant news corporation would do well to be more appreciative of the free expression protections observed in Citizen’s United. Had things gone the government’s way -as was implicitly verified by then solicitor general Elana Kagen- the state would have continued in the assumption that theirs was the authority to ban political pamphlets and political books. It is hard to imagine that political newspaper articles, or those that pen them, would have fared much better.

H/T Billy.