I’ve decided that we, the people of the United States, should write a new Amendment to the Constitution that further defines the legal bounds of the courts. Specifically, to restrict the courts from legislating across the bench. The amendment should dictate that the court’s role is to determine the constitutional nature of a law and not to interpret the lack of constitutionality as a measure for then telling the people that if a law is unconstitutional then by definition the law that is unconstitutional must therefore be constitutional. As a result of changes in our laws enacted through the Supreme Court, supreme courts of the states, and various other federal and state courts, it is necessary to dictate what is and is not appropriate for the justices to do. Specifically, when groups decide that it is too hard to pass legislation they start lawsuits that are designed to change the laws through the courts. Rather, if a law is deemed unconstitutional it should be returned to the legislature for changes with notes on what can be changed.

On the positive side of stuff, Erin got a check in the mail today. This was unexpected and wasn’t very much money, probably enough to buy a couple of shirts. Since she started her blog she is a part of a network of bloggers called Blogher. This was exciting. It is far more money than I’ve ever seen for blogging. And I’ve been doing it for a lot longer. Since she’s a part of a network, this means Blogher will actually send people her way. And since she’s writing more about being a mommy and does so in a very open way, her blog has also been getting hit by people who are (literally) interested in the new mommy experience. Congrats Erin.

Which returns me to my parents who are in a place called Inscription House. They’ve been there for about a week. Have already taught some lessons. Sounds like a load of fun.

On the other side of things, neither Erin nor I have been to church in about five weeks… or is that six Sunday’s? Regardless, it’s interesting to note that between sleep and no sleep I’ve found myself (as has Erin) just trying to make it through the days let alone get to church. Our hometeachers showed up yesterday for a couple of seconds, on top of which I received a whole series of calls from a California number I didn’t recognize and didn’t feel like answering and since the individual calling did so relatively quickly after church and didn’t leave a message… well, I have spent more time on that than I intended to.

As for baby, codename: CAMPER (registration required) is doing well. We think he is not feeling well as he’s moved from sleeping and being a somewhat independent baby to needing lots of holding and cuddling. Erin is pretty convinced he’s not feeling well. Which very well may be the case, but he’s not been running a fever. On the sad part of everything, he’s also been a little stuffy which has also caused Erin to try to figure out ways to get the mucous out of his nose. There have been suggestions as well as my boycotting several of the more hair brained plans since she does not like boogers.

On a semi-related, but almost completely unrelated, topic… we are now in need of more Kleenex as we are nearly out around the house. I’m just saying. Get me blowing my nose eight-hundred-thousand-million times a day and then don’t supply me with the (comfortable) means of getting rid of the crusty hard boogers. Of course, I discovered one of those (very uncomfortable) in class today and then had to wait until I got out of class before I could go and try to remove it; and even then, it took a while because it was both hard and attached to the side of my nose up high. Gross.

Since today is Monday, and Monday means going back to school and completing a thousand different assignments (I have a one-page precis and a review of something cowboy like a book or movie and a reformatted journal into MLA, which seems weird to me since it’s a personal journal and was never announced as needing appropriate formatting) all due tomorrow. Which would’ve been nice to have remembered over the weekend… oh wait!!! I did and didn’t feel up to working on them over the weekend.

I did go to Locus Online as a result of being directed there by an interview on Ursula K. Le Guin and stumbled across the Links Portal that lists all sorts of science fiction publications for short fiction and links to websites and more. I can’t wait to go over what is there.

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