Scalia Ruled Dead - The Dumb Town Slogan Thread

[Wouter D]

Scalia Ruled Dead - The Dumb Town Slogan Thread

Amor de Cosmos wrote: The signs received criticism from all quarters when they were erected decades ago. Partly because of the their sheer silliness, and partly because national defence is not a municipal responsibility.

Fair enough. I was having a very good time imagining a car filled with nuclear arms dealers driving towards Vancouver and going "Oh no, we cannot take our goods down there! Turn the car around, we're going to have to have the meeting in Burnaby instead."

I also loved this, from UA's link:

Wikipedia wrote: Another well-known nuclear-free community is Berkeley, California, whose citizens passed the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act in 1986 which allows the city to levy fines for nuclear weapons-related activity and to boycott companies involved in the United States nuclear infrastructure.

"So, officer Barbrady, how was your day?"
-"Well, not too productive. Three parking tickets and one fine for nuclear weapons-related activity."

[Incandenza]

Scalia Ruled Dead - The Dumb Town Slogan Thread

It's something that could possibly come up with UC Berkeley, though.

[linus]

Scalia Ruled Dead - The Dumb Town Slogan Thread

This is just another symptom of "gown vs town", the longstanding battle between the city of Berkeley and the flagship UC campus, which is the birthplace of nuclear weapon research. The nuclear-free legislation is mostly toothless and symbolic, Berkeley is hardly nuclear-free, with a research nuclear powerplant in the basement of Etcheverry Hall, home of the Nuclear Engineering Dept., and a lot of other facilities at the Lawrence Lab on the hills above campus, though a lot of it is now done further east in Livermore and New Mexico.