Yes, of course we saw them.
Fun time for me this past week- I got in a few nights at the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Rochester being the home of Eastman School of Music, it attracts a pretty excellent array of performers. My outstanding experience was sitting 15 feet away from Bill Frisell at his show. NPR Lady (who lives in Rochester) was there on some nights I couldn’t be, and was particularly taken with a show by the pianist Laura Dubin, who did a tribute concert honoring Marian McPartland. Anyway… we snagged some good seats for the Christian Sands Trio Quartet. I was overhearing a conversation about music going on behind me, and one of them mentioned Jonathan Edwards (the subject of Old Guy Music recently). I of course turned around and told her to not leave out Darlene. That got a delighted laugh, and she and I started discussing their oeuvre. That’s when NPR Lady (who had no idea who Jonathan and Darlene Edwards were) looked surprised and said, “Aren’t you Laura Dubin?” “Yes, I am.” “I loved your show the other night…” Sometimes fun stuff just happens.
Birthdays include a guy who whose work was derivative; a guy who came away with clean hands; my kind of tranny; a rather stylish fellow; a superb actor who was not a pretty-boy; a guy without whom no-one would have ever heard of Eric Clapton; an actress who could call George Burns “Sonny Boy”; easily the best James Bond villain EVER; not my kind of tranny; a guy who directed and starred in one of the worst tranny-themed movies ever made; a guy who launched a million shitty puns; the woman who inspired Cross-Eyed Mary; a woman who sang my theme song and burned her tits with a cigarette; when it comes down to it, a true Blue Democrat; a guy with webbed toes; and a woman who should be more careful about who’s driving.
Let us Link.
“OK, we’ll find a different way to use taxpayer money to buy votes.”
Some people expect the world to conform to them.
I like that the first reaction of the US government is to call for censoring social media.
Like having a lot of charts, graphs, and diagrams about climate? Here you go.
The British are not nearly as good as the French at this sort of thing.
I think chamber jazz is its own thing. And this is about as good as it gets, so sayeth the Old Man.
Morning. Number one son is competing with some of those Eastman music school kids today in Westchester. I hope he kicks their asses, but I think we all know the kid from Curtis is going to eat everyone’s lunch.
Good luck to him.
How’s Mrs. Nerfy (NNNM)?
Doing okay. Stone still isn’t passed but she’s not puking her guts out any more.
Best wishes!
Good luck to #1 son, and hope the missus passes that stone soon.
Best wishes for him.
And also to your wife, hopefully she passes that stone soon.
July is a great month! It has the 4th and my birthday.
Early Happy Birthday!
I’ll be on the road most of July. FreedomFest.
Thanks.
I still maintain that Hoffman was more convincing as a chick than Dylan Mulvaney is. (I know, I know – low bar.)
I have a soft spot for the movie, in part because part of it was filmed around here.
It’s still funny. “You were a TOMATO!” “It’s for my dog. He likes fruit.” Awful soundtrack though.
The difference is, Mulvaney isn’t actually trying to look like a woman. He’s just slapping some lipstick and hairspray on.
Huh. That’s actually more effort than I put in. 😕
Right?!
He’s a cosplaying girlhood.
Until the new blond look, he was cosplaying Audrey Hepburn, which i think added to the creep factor.
Listened to someone lay out a grand theory of the Brits and their foreign policies yesterday that was quite compelling.
Basically, their gambit is always to pit the major powers against each other and profit from the disarray. One looks at how they want us to go to war with Russia and their tacit encouragement of the US against China and it seems quite plausible in the context of today. We’re the idiot braun to their brains.
He also asserts that Soros is a creation of the Brits, a designated fallguy for the blame of what is actually their psyops.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-invented-george-soros
Poe as in Poe’s law?
Different Poe
But is this one raven mad, or sending us into the maelstorm?
To wit:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-says-nato-should-consider-skipping-standard-application-ukraine-membership
What if the objective here for the Brits is not to relitigate the Crimean War, but instead to break the US in an un-winnable war? Or maybe it’s both, along with devastating Europe and the Brits’ age-old rivals.
I just finished reading a novel in which one plot point involved a nefarious British time travel organization that planned to go back and prevent George Washington from being born so (presumably) England would still control America. So, yeah – I guess we can’t trust those limeys after all. (Except OUR Limey – come back, Limey! We miss you!)
That was an interesting perspective I got reading the French author’s biography of Franklin – that the split between the American colonies and mother England was foreseen and considered almost inevitable. An interesting contributing factor may have been the encouraged emigration of Scots/Scots-Irish, given they weren’t the most loyal of subjects to the Crown.
Author’s name or a link?
People have forgotten that the Brits took a great deal of pleasure in the American Civil War and supported both sides, a greatly weakened united States being in the Empire’s best interests.
In the late 19th century, the common Americans generally loathed the Brits, and rightly so, while the American elites, who were heavily connected to the British banking industry, had different opinions. It was a massive propaganda push by the Brits for well over a decade that generated just enough popular support for entry into WW1 on the side of England. The Brits have always been far better at spying, soft power, and general manipulation than just about anyone else, and the CIA was largely modeled on the British solution. Now we have Five Eyes, and it’s debatable who the senior partner is.
while the American elites, who
were heavily connected to the British banking industryconsidered themselves fellow aristocrats and cultural cousins.The HMS Victory is still an active warship…
It’s a comforting thought that maybe the US isn’t destroying itself from the inside but who knows. I think we’re quite capable of doing it ourselves without any outside assistance.
His thesis is that for a very long time, the English speaking world has ruled the globe. At the center of that empire, it has always been London pulling the strings. The fact that anyone thinks it’s actually the Jews in charge is a propaganda and psyop coup for the ages and one that was quite intentional.
Well, during part of that period Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister. I would be willing to bet that he is a good part of why that rumor persisted for so long.
Pay no attention to the fact that the English Crown is still the largest landowner in the world. It must be the Jews.
It is remarkable that they’ve been able to deflect attention from themselves so well.
The Crown isn’t personal property. It’s a legal fiction for property that belongs to the UK government. I bet there are other governments with even more landholding.
Texas A&M.
Humphrey Appleby did it first.
He wasn’t wrong.
Sometimes when I play Axis and Allies, I say that I want to play the biggest assholes and least trustworthy people on the block: the British.
Just Go Away?
One Way, Or Another.
Heart of Glass
a guy who launched a million shitty puns;
Happy birthday Swissy!
I love it when they trot out the total number of acres burned charts. Sub-selecting the last few decades is a blatant misrepresentation in the context of the last century and a half.
That spike in the 1930’s, though is due to the Forest Service’s empire building.
https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=19245
and a woman who should be more careful about who’s driving.
Happy birthday Mary Jo Kopechne!
Beat me to it!
Some people expect the world to conform to them.
How did pickleball suddenly become a craze in the past few years, and then enough of a craze for people to turn on it?
I wasn’t aware of the pickleball craze until the last few months. This all seems out of the blue to me.
My first NPR Lady was deep into it. Even took lessons from a pro. I was double amazed that you can get lessons and that there’s pros.
There’s professional cornhole leagues.
I’m still surprised that’s the name that stuck.
*Points to link below*
Baby Boomers. They need a sport to grow old with.
Bocce, lawn bowling, shuffleboard?
Nah – Boomers STILL have to rebel against their parents.
Bocce and shuffleboard have been making a comeback, at least around here, aiming at the younger generation.
Same with bag toss.
https://www.iplaycornhole.com/
Not clicking that
Completely SFW.
Right?
What’s next… professional Twister?
Where do I sign up?
I have a friend who quit Disc golf for console, he makes bank at tournaments.
Cornhole, dammit!
People make money at playing console too. It boggles the mind.
People make money watching people play console…even more mind boggling.
https://recruiting.army.mil/army_esports/
For that I’ll trade 12 hours a day of souped-up drag racers and dirt bikes terrorizing the neighborhood.
WTF?
The colonial empires still exist.
It’s just bananas to me that whatever’s in the water in that wretched country has made its way to South America and the Indian Ocean.
Hell hath not fury like an internet scorned.
Yeah, France never really gave up it’s colonies, not after the shitshow of Algeria.
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten was an interesting contrast – the Dutch were on top of things after they got clobbered by a hurricane a few years back and their side of the lagoon is cleared of wrecks, etc.
The French just DGAF and they’re still “working on it”, with wrecks all over their side of the lagoon and their half of the island looking noticeably worse in terms of visible damage.
My friend from Aruba says that’s pretty normal re: Dutch vs French islands.
The French just DGAF and they’re still “working on it”, with wrecks all over their side of the lagoon and their half of the island looking noticeably worse in terms of visible damage.
They are le tired.
I’ll note Hurricane Irma was in 2017.
They’re really not in a rush.
I know.
I’m mocking the French.
Viktor is stating the obvious thing that isn’t supposed to be openly stated.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-brink-bankrutpcy-says-hungarys-orban-eu-summit
“The only question everyone is asking here in Brussels is: Where has the money gone?”
I figured the primary question at those types of events is “Where are the hookers?”
“The only question everyone is asking here in Brussels is: Where has the money gone?”
Long time passes.
“I shoot everywhere, mostly in the Czech anal scene, so I’m not contractually bound anywhere full-time.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/adult-star-embroiled-european-sex-30342964
Czech Anal Scene would be a good name for a band.
No wonder the Germans wanted to annex the Sudetenland.
If they’re expensive, tough shit. Factor it into the cost of building the courts, and install them in a way so as to best deaden the sound. Or charge people money to play there.
Yeah, it’s not rocket surgery.
Or don’t move next to places that will have noise.
Near where I grew up, there was a train track that ran through. Amazingly, the houses near the train track were much cheaper than houses that were far away. People would buy the cheap houses, and then complain to the city about the train noise, and write letters to the paper, and put up signs trying to get people to help them stop the train noise.
Back then, most of us just laughed at the idiots. Now they’re given credence and standing.
Or don’t move next to places that will have noise.
The article seemed more to focus on people who moved in before pickleball exploded. Courts and crowds and noise came after.
A gun club not far from me ran into some trouble with neighbors.
The gun club was in an area with lots of farms. The farmers were there first but they didn’t care about the gun club. Slowly, the farmers started selling to developers. Houses popped up all around the gun club. The gun club saw an uptick in membership, and more shooting. The neighbors complained, “It wasn’t that bad when we moved!”
The judge, rightly in my mind, killed lawsuits over noise complaints because the club was there first.
What ended up fucking the club over was that the zoning laws at the time the club started required a zoning variance for having a gun club there. The club never got a variance because the zoning board at the time incorrectly told the club founders they didn’t need a variance. The judge didn’t want to hear entrapment by estoppel claims. The club is still there, but had to make a whole bunch of changes.
This is a Yuge pet peeve of mine. Laguna Seca, one of the few world class race track in the US, gets hit with noise violations from people who moved in long after it was built, used, and celebrated. Fuck, that track is half the reason why the area is so valuable. But, no, they have to bitch and moan. Same with a world class shooting range in the Oakland hills. You knew it was there when you bought, fuck off with your complaints.
My wife gets annoyed when she hears neighbors using power tools, shooting, or loud cars on the road. All of those sound like happy upstanding people to me that I’m glad to have nearby.
I get worried when I don’t hear the neighbors shooting. I feel like I should make a Wellness Check.
Or don’t move next to places that will have noise.
Yes
Sydney Pollok took what could have been a mediocre Kubrick movie and, with one line took it completion. “Hookers die. That’s what they do.”
Silicone Saturday for all the NPR lovers out there.
https://archive.is/Oc5Zh
“Shut up, you look good”? With all that ink?
Lotsa weird manicures too.
When I see women with dagger nails, I say, “No thanks. Moving on.”
“I have a wife, a girlfriend, two casual relationships at work, an ex who I still have sex with, countless one night stands and it’s still not enough[…]Most days I have sex at least two or three times. Last week I had sex with five different women.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22864319/married-man-guess-how-much-action-i-get/
You still have a job so you’re clearly not spending enough time having sex; time to quit and get those rookie numbers up.
Lol…. reminds me of a college roommate. One of my favorite sources of stories, Fung was from Vietnam. He had a stunning “giance” back home (arranged), one beautiful little blond girlfriend and 4 other regulars who were kinds homely copies of the blond, all 5 with banging little cheerleader bodies.
Dude would literally have sex 3-4 times a day. Get up, go to class, come home to have sex, go to class, go to a girl’s apartment to have sex, have dinner with girlfriend, have sex …..
One evening one of the guys asked him about the 4 homely girls. “You American so stupid!” he replied “you gonna turn out the light anyway! Who care what the face look like! Look at that body!”
That dude was one of a kind. Ended up staying here and marrying the cute one, from what I heard.
“New Hampshire woman, 68, plans to sue her town after she was arrested when cops smelt alcohol on her breath while she was at HOME watching baseball and claimed her filthy house was hazardous”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12253103/Woman-plans-sue-town-arrested-home-cops-smelled-alcohol-her.html
WTF??
Can you sue to make the city fire the officers rather than for monetary damages?
Cops must’ve thought they were in Hampshire, England – proper nanny state and all.
It ain’t right but people need to shut the fuck up when talking to cops or media. They were investigating what sounds like a suspected crash and she just gave them the ammunition to pull this shit. “For her own good”
“Loud told the Boston Globe that she had stopped by a local bar for a few beers after work prior to the officers appearing at her home.”
How is that ammunition though? She was home.
Police say that they arrested for being intoxicated with a breath alcohol test reading of just over .08, which is below the legal limit for driving,
Daily Fail strikes again!
Better article on the incident and its fallout.
“Parents of teenage girl sue Wyoming school district after she was secretly allowed to identify a boy in their freshman year of high school – and teachers discussed lying to the parents in emails
The American Civil Liberties Union believe it to be unconstitutional for public schools to reveal a student’s gender identity to others.
‘Even if you are ‘out’ about your sexual orientation or gender identity at school, if you’re not ‘out’ to your parents at home, and you can reasonably expect that they’re not going to find out, then school staff can’t tell your family that you are LGBTQ without your permission,’ the ACLU said in a statement.
‘Being open about your sexuality in school doesn’t mean you automatically give up your right to privacy outside school.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12253325/Teen-girl-parents-sue-Wyoming-school-district-secretly-allowed-identify-boy-high-school.html
OK, Groomer
Die on that hill. Go ahead.
Oh, please do take this argument to SCOTUS. Schools across the country are pulling this shit.
Thomas is, of course, the most avid defender of the rights of students over that of the State.
See, I did that with a perfectly straight face.
Of course, the assertion of privacy rights against the parents is the stolen base here.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/the-week-in-pictures-halfway-point-edition.php
My kilo. LOL
“Maybe Dick” might be my favorite
“Feelin’ good!”
Oof..
This is how I learned I am one of the kook crackpots….
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/06/IMG_3066.jpg
Who could possibly have foreseen this? It’s only happened dozens of times in other jurisdictions large and small and is backed up by centuries of solid economic theory! Predicting it was impossible!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-states-once-awash-cash-090000228.html
The question remains “Will they break Powell and force inflation to resolve this problem, or will they attempt a direct bailout of the offending states?”
The latter is strictly illegal but I don’t see why they wouldn’t attempt it if otherwise stymied. It could easily lead to a breakup of the union with Texas going first.
Wow, we have a surplus! What to do? Save for a rainy day? Why do that when we can buy votes?
More high speed choo choos?
That pic up there really creeps me out. They look like the hounds of Hell.
The sartorially interesting one?
Ouch.
https://babylonbee.com/news/awkward-supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-with-affirmative-action-hire-standing-right-there
The full piece is well worth the read.
What do you expect when Joe announces that his running mate will be “a woman of color” and that his Supreme Court pick will be “a woman of color” before he has even narrowed down on a pick? He is saying explicitly that it’s not going to be about merit.
I like how the satire then doubles down with the press secretary:
For the wine lovers
The Supreme Court’s Friday decision stopped more than 40 million borrowers from receiving loan forgiveness and delivered a major defeat to one of the president’s key campaign promises. The decision limits Biden’s options to deliver on that promise.
If the Supreme Court won’t rubber stamp campaign promises it serves no legitimate purpose, and should be abolished.
#expandthecourt
You keep using that word…
Leaders at elite universities across the country also expressed disappointment at the court’s ruling but insisted that the end of affirmative action does not mean they will abandon their pursuit of diversity on their campuses.
Diversity of pigment and uniformity of belief is just what the doctor of education ordered.
I’m beginning to think that you really can’t argue someone out of fantastical notions like this – either you see that it is bullshit or you don’t.
They blocked school choice?
The thing is, SCOTUS didn’t change the law on affirmative action at all. They just applied pre-existing standards to current practices. The whole “SCOTUS ended affirmative action” thing both sides are shouting about is a total fiction, even if you overlook that schools will ignore this ruling and keep doing what they’ve been doing, with some cosmetic changes.
Yup.
“Ending affirmative action” would mean, among a zillion other examples, stopping the racist set-asides that my city provides on public works projects.
@commodius/groat scotum — You know I love you and no offense taken, and thank you for supporting me! I didn’t mean to post and run. I was just tired from PT and went to bed.
Ransom was paid
Fox News will pay $12 million to settle a pair of major lawsuits brought by former producer Abby Grossberg, her lawyer said Friday.
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“I am heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously,” Grossberg said. “I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace.”
Will it boost FOX’s ESG score with the pension funds?
Sheesh, I really need to up my grifting game.
That is a hell of a racket. Sued a man she’s never met for sexual harassment and got his employer to pay 8 figures.
Audiotapes that she recorded while working for Bartiromo — including the host’s off-air conversations with influential Trump officials — became public amid her legal battle. Her attorney previously said Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith was interested in obtaining Grossberg’s roughly 90 tapes for his investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the election.
In addition to the Dominion saga, Grossberg claimed that she suffered through a treacherous onslaught of workplace sexism and rampant misogyny. She revealed in a TV interview that the harassment was so severe that she thought about killing herself while working at Fox News.
The toxic environment worsened after Grossberg joined Carlson’s show, she said. According to the lawsuits, Grossberg witnessed flagrant use of the C-word, male colleagues openly debating which female politicians were “more f–kable,” and was asked uncomfortable sexual questions.
Just like being in a Nazi forced labor camp. No way out.
Tapes? What is this, 1995?
Making shit up ain’t easy.
These tapes? The ones that made us like him more?
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/02/media-matters-tucker-carlson-leaked-tapes/
Looks like I should have become a priest, I’d get more action then.
“It has been the honor of my career to serve as Abby’s attorney over the past year,” her attorney Gerry Filippatos said in a statement on Friday afternoon. “A more courageous and honest person, skilled and devoted journalist, and fierce advocate for justice I have never met.”
The four million bucks was just a happy surprise.
Just a few days ago the media and democrats were cheering SCOTUS for their election ruling. Their ability to turn on a dime and have no self awareness is amazing.
Teen #1 is really getting into being a gear head. Doing his breaks today on his own. His coworkers I guess all have project cars so he has great peer support.
Teen #2 has a thriving dog sitting business. $70-80 a day for in house service, upwards of $100 a day if request is to stay at house. He just got done with a week long job. Not bad.
Didn’t conservatives do the opposite flip?
Principals over principles all the way down.
That’s good news about your kids. Project cars with friends and thriving business. Excellent.
I have been coughing so much over the past few days that my abdominal muscles are sore.
Going to see if Teledoc will renew my prescription for nebulizer ampules without requiring me to go to urgent care. I don’t think there’s any street value or getting high with the ampules so hopefully it will be simple.
This sucks
Happy July, everyone!!
Sorry hi-e, hope that works and you’re on the mend in short order. Four day weekend hopefully?
Get well soon
Get well soon!
“We need to find a new way, and we’re moving as fast as we can,” he said in Friday afternoon remarks at the White House.
They had prepared for this day.
Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach, the former leader of a Catholic convent in Texas, is suing Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson after he claimed she was guilty of breaking her promise to never have sex.
Nuns have tits too.
Federal judge vacates ATF receiver rule.
Old Guy Music is good.
Not a legal beagle, but SCOTUS’ ruling on the web case seems to be another chickening out from the unpleasant logical conclusions of the 1st Amendment. Lots of qualifying and hemming to arrive at the (correct) conclusion while closing the door to the rest of forced association/anti discriminatory laws for private parties.
The other day somebody linked a story about the Harvard women’s hockey team; hazing and initiation and generally unladylike behavior.
Those persons clearly present as male and should be sex-changed at the earliest opportunity. Forcibly, if necessary.
Slow Children at Play
Imagine this: Democracy is decimated, eaten by locusts of misinformation created by artificial intelligence. Robots didn’t simply take our jobs; they conquered our minds. And the wealthiest made money on it all.
Why it matters: Experts at this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival saw that scenario not as apocalyptic fiction, but rather a thoroughly possible, maybe even probable future.
The dissolution of the American dream, brain hacking, geopolitical realignment and the “Pope in a puffer jacket” melded over the past week into the fanciest doomsday prepping session on Earth.
State of play: The annual week-long festival brings together world’s smartest minds to discuss the most intractable problems — the rich and famous with disruptors trying to overthrow the rich and famous.
It sets the zeitgeist for American cultural thought with its deep reflections and contradictions.
Another billionaire LARPer festival. We cannot have too many of those.
“Democracy is decimated, eaten by locusts of misinformation created by artificial intelligence. Robots didn’t simply take our jobs; they conquered our minds. And the wealthiest made money on it all.”
This scenario was greeted by raucous cheering and high-fives all around, no doubt.
even if you overlook that schools will ignore this ruling and keep doing what they’ve been doing, with some cosmetic changes.
“Eeny, meeny. miney, moe…”
Sounds insurrection-y, according to leftist standards.
What they’re saying: Artificial intelligence may allow us to talk to animals, but it will lead to a post-fact 2024 campaign.
We need to democratize wealth — or maybe economic inequality is “a myth.”
Attendees carried designer bags with the slogan “help feed the children of the world” and attended a discussion on nutrition inequality while sipping “ultra premium, cold pressed juice” flown in from Los Angeles.
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You even could ride an exercise bike that spins a blender to make your own Danone smoothie, feeling like you’re saving the world and being healthy at the same time.
Serious people, doing serious things.
And nothing else will happen.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/breaking-new-evidence-reveals-biden-doj-edited-video/
Twitter is still being retarded.
“Update 2: Elon Musk states that this is a “temporary emergency measure” to block data pillaging. He wrote: “Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!””
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/30/how-to-bypass-twitters-login-prompt-and-access-content-without-account/
“In another tweet, Musk said, “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.” He added, “What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas.”
Musk alleged that groups that have been data-scraping Twitter, in violation of its terms and conditions, “dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a laundromat.” He added, “We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now.”
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-blocks-access-not-logged-emergency-measure-musk-1235659611/#!
Is anyone else’s Pornhub not working? – Sen Lucas (D-18)
Blocked in VA because they are protesting some new age verification law, which apparently hasn’t affected other sites. Perhaps PH is just being petulant.
Cock blocked?
Cry more.
All of the things that I taught in law school are out of the door. You used to have to have standing. “I’m concerned about the law and I wanted the Supreme Court to tell me I’m right,” but that is what just happened with the LGBTQ rights. Literally, this woman had not been sued by anybody, and she had no reason to be in court at all. Standing used to be important, and that is out of the window. Precedent, and earlier decisions used to matter, and it is out of the window. And the Supreme Court used to narrowly decide, what is the most narrow approach to decide an issue, and nope. We will entertain any theory we can to go after certain groups.
This is a legitimacy crisis brought on by a conservative movement that saw it was losing public opinion to a more inclusive generation. And so now they are using Supreme Court to slam shut the door of opportunity for generations of Americans, and it is shocking.
If you are a young gay or lesbian person, you should not look at the Supreme Court and see your opponent, but a referee to call it fair or unfair. They went out of their way to grab this case, and now the first amendment is being used as a shield for bigotry, and the first amendment is being used a shield for discrimination.
“The court ruled against things I like. Being free means being free to discriminate. Wah, wahhhh!”
The midterm elections. The fact that after the Supreme Court struck down “Roe v. Wade,” you saw a huge move on the part of our constituency to stand up, and moderates saying, “Wait a second, it is settled law of 50 years, and you are going to change it, because you have new people on the bench?”
Some precedents are assho.
I think that you going to be seeing a lot of people standing up. This is dangerous stuff, because when you have a legitimacy crisis for the court, you have a legitimacy crisis for the country. Because now you have a generation of younger people who are looking at the Supreme Court who is so out of touch with their reality.
Because the court should be subject to the whims of leftists.
I particularly like the standing complaint in light of recent uses to rig the elections.
Yeah; my thought was that the projection was strong there.
and now the first amendment is being used as a shield for bigotry, and the first amendment is being used a shield for discrimination.
You have no right to not speak.
I have an idea. Harvard can host regional “rock, paper, scissors” tournaments to select new students.
This version for STEM majors.
My daughter figured that game out when she was 4. Just wait until the other guy shoots and then choose.