tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313009.post4824385887387996080..comments2024-03-01T21:01:15.174-06:00Comments on Biblical Christianity: On the death of Robert Bork: truthful jurists, false GospelsDJPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313009.post-36897203613304586062013-01-01T12:03:44.582-06:002013-01-01T12:03:44.582-06:00Feel free.Feel free.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313009.post-75748215940464182252013-01-01T11:52:30.684-06:002013-01-01T11:52:30.684-06:00If you don't mind, I want to link to this post...If you don't mind, I want to link to this post over at my place. I didn't know about Bork's conversion to Catholicism, and I don't think I've read a better worded summation of the tragedy of a late-life, pre-death cannonball jump into the fire. Tragic he didn't get on the court, and also a tragic eternal decision. Solameaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869424956571944997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313009.post-11710290635867670602012-12-19T09:06:14.882-06:002012-12-19T09:06:14.882-06:00And of course his name lives on in the vile politi...And of course his name lives on in the vile politics of our day.<br /><br />According to columnist William Safire, the first published use of bork as a verb was "possibly" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 20, 1987. Safire defines to bork by reference "to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan's nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork, the year before."Perhaps the best known use of the verb to bork occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. She said, "We're going to bork him. We're going to kill him politically ... This little creep, where did he come from?" Thomas was subsequently confirmed after one of the most divisive confirmation hearings in Supreme Court history.<br />In March 2002, the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for the verb Bork as U.S. political slang, with this definition: "To defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way."Kerry James Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06083436735702873300noreply@blogger.com