Comments on: Oh Dear. http://www.potatochipping.com/2010/04/oh-dear/ Sociological Thoughts on Youth, Education, and Technology Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:52:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jay Livingston http://www.potatochipping.com/2010/04/oh-dear/comment-page-1/#comment-2864 Jay Livingston Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:08:43 +0000 http://www.potatochipping.com/?p=197#comment-2864 A <a HREF="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/04/supreme_court_confusion_or_blo.html" rel="nofollow">blogger at NPR</A> comes to Roberts’s defense . “couldn't you make the case that he was getting at the differences in the way the law treats the two ways of communicating, as well as the technical differences in the way their messages are routed? Not that he didn't know that pagers and e-mails aren't the same thing?” But the cluelessness revealed by some of the other questions is disappointing. I thought that the justices were supposed to inform themselves about the cases <i>before</i> they hear oral arguments. A blogger at NPR comes to Roberts’s defense . “couldn’t you make the case that he was getting at the differences in the way the law treats the two ways of communicating, as well as the technical differences in the way their messages are routed? Not that he didn’t know that pagers and e-mails aren’t the same thing?”

But the cluelessness revealed by some of the other questions is disappointing. I thought that the justices were supposed to inform themselves about the cases before they hear oral arguments.

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