Sometimes the Supreme Court amazes me in its equity and fairness when I least expect it, such as this victory for people being allowed to do whatever they want when they are minding their own business and not impinging on anyone else. This was a 6-3 ruling with only the most unreasonable — Rehnquist and Scalia — and unqualified, braindead — Thomas — dissenting. Pathetic, repugnant attempt at counterargument from the state of Texas: “Texas defended its sodomy law as in keeping with the state’s interest in protecting marriage and child-rearing. Homosexual sodomy, the state argued in legal papers, ‘has nothing to do with marriage or conception or parenthood and it is not on a par with these sacred choices.'” Salon

Related: Sometimes even Texas can get it right: “FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury took less than an hour Thursday to convict a former nurse’s aide of murder for hitting a homeless man with her car, driving home with his mangled body lodged in the windshield and leaving him to die in her garage.” Salon

The defense had argued that this was an accident instead of the pitiless, depraved, wanton destruction of a human life it was.