Word: opinionizing
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...chance, would you punch chef Anthony Bourdain [for the things he's said about you? Be honest.] -Dharan Kumar Kalamazoo, Mich.No, I actually love and appreciate Tony Bourdain's work, and I think everybody has the right to their own opinion...
...Still, the two colleagues Roberts drew to his opinion were more than any of the other justices could do. Justice Clarence Thomas held, alone, that the Constitution forbids only those execution methods that are expressly intended to inflict severe pain. For example: "'gibbeting,' or hanging the condemned in an iron cage so that his body would decompose in public view, and 'public dissection'...[and] embowelling alive, beheading, and quartering." Also beyond the pale, he noted, would be burning prisoners alive...
...Justice Antonin Scalia's solo opinion insisted that courts should not decide these issues; legislatures should. Justice John Paul Stevens, while agreeing that the case at hand was lame - since lethal injection is entirely designed NOT to be cruel and there is skimpy evidence that this theoretically possible kind of agonizing execution has ever actually happened - urged precisely the opposite. He would like for the Supreme Court to reconsider the entire death penalty and find the whole thing cruel and unusual. Like former justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor before him, Stevens has concluded...
...Even the two dissenters, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter, weren't much comfort to the inmates. Their opinion would have sent the case back to the Kentucky courts to decide whether the execution team should use some test - like checking the condemned prisoner's reflexes by brushing his eyelashes - to determine whether he's unconscious before administering the second drug...
Feng Zhongping of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations says Brown is "building trust with the Chinese leaders. He thinks China will play a favorable role [in its relations with] Britain in the age of globalization. This opinion sets him apart from other European leaders." The Prime Minister dismisses reports that he entertained any thoughts of boycotting the Beijing Olympics in protest over China's crackdown in Tibet. He always intended, he says, to miss the opening celebrations but to attend the closing ceremonies, where the mantle of the Olympics will be passed on to London, which will host...