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With this being the last week of the current Supreme Court session, the final big decisions are starting to roll out. Slate has a clear and informative discussion going on about this crucial moment in the judicial world. E.g., today the court decided 5-4 that during death penalty sentencing, when factors favoring life and favoring death are exactly equal, the state can force the jury to choose death. (I.e., the “tie goes to Death” law of Kansas is constitutional.) And at 6-3 they ruled that Vermont’s limitations on campaign expenditures is uncostitutionial. By next Monday at the latest, expect a huge decision on the use of military trials for “war on terror” cases. This is important shit – do you think the results are just?

Andrew Sullivan has an interesting thought on the alternative to withdrawing soon from Iraq. Here’s the dilemma: if you believe that “cutting and running” is wrong but you also believe that the Bush administration is waging this war incompetently, what’s the alternative? As he says:

Slate ‘s Seth Stevenson thinks the new Apple ads (with two men representing a Mac and a PC in front of a white background) aren’t effective because John Hodgman, the PC, is too funny. It’s true – I’d rather have dinner with Hodgman than Justin Long, especially when the latter’s getting all cutesy with Japanese chicks.

A court is set to rule whether there is a medical justification for the circumcision of an 8-year-old boy suffering from a non-life-threatening infection. Anti-circumcision “intactivists” are hoping that the court rules against the medical necessity of the surgery, potentially setting a precedent in American law. I consider myself a sort of “intactivist,” but the religious component is tremendously thorny. (thx, flea)

Slate explains why 17 of 23 of the players on the Brazilian World Cup team go by a single name (e.g., Dido, Ronaldinho, etc.). I’m looking forward to the Mexico v. Iran match tomorrow morning – because my neighborhood is primarily Mexican, and because I want to see how the crowd reacts to the Iranian team.

litkicks.com has spent the week discussing their choice of LitKicks Overrated Writers of 2006: Philip Roth, Joan Didion, William Vollmann, Cormac McCarthy, and Jonathan Lethem. You’ll see posts justifying their pick for each writer.