Apart from being elitist clubs that promote snobbery and boorish behavior, fraternities regularly turn healthy young people into corpses. In the latest incident, Stone Foltz, 20, a student at Bowling Green State University, in an Ohio city of the same name, is on life support while his family arrang[...]
Archive for March, 2021
In defense of Sen. Joe Manchin
With an evenly divided Senate, the Democrats need every Democratic and independent senator’s vote to pass legislation opposed by Republicans, which is most of Biden’s and his party’s agenda. Topping the list is protecting Americans’ right to vote from Republican state-level v[...]
March 6th, 2021 - 11:37 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
How should political violence be punished?
With firmness, to nip it in the bud, before it can spin out of control. This doesn’t necessarily imply singling people out and making examples out of them, but it does mean holding them accountable. For example, Capitol rioters should be prosecuted for the crimes they committed and punished in[...]
March 5th, 2021 - 7:17 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Georgia GOP legislators outlaw “Pizza to the Polls”
Feed voters, go to jail. Georgia Republican legislators have just passed a law making it a felony to give coffee or food to voters waiting in line. Read story here. During the 2020 election, some voters waited in lines for hours. Republicans made it as hard to vote as they possibly could, and if the[...]
Georgia grand jury to probe Trump’s election interference
“A criminal investigation into … Trump’s attempts to overturn” Georgia’s election results “is set to intensify this week as a grand jury convenes, offering the local district attorney her first shot at seeking subpoenas for records and interviews,” CNN repor[...]
Latest mask brouhaha
States run by Republicans have begun lifting their mask mandates. In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Texans no longer need government running their lives” (read story here). His party used to prosecute draft dodgers, but that was a long time ago. His party also passed legislation to prose[...]
March 5th, 2021 - 11:42 am § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Sick and stupid
A New Jersey man has been arrested and extradited to New Hampshire for carving QAnon graffiti into a rock formation at a tourism site, the Union Leader reported on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Read story here. “Mark Russo, 50, was charged with one count of felony criminal mischief afte[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Atmospheric magic
This picture isn’t photoshopped. The ship is actually over the horizon, and light-bending atmospheric conditions made it visible. Read story here. This would’ve been useful to naval commanders before radar was invented if they could’ve figured out how to turn it on. Return to The-A[...]
March 4th, 2021 - 10:00 pm § in Politics
GOP legislator axed by his own party
If this isn’t a man-bites-dog story, it’s certainly a dog-bites-dog story. “The GOP-controlled North Dakota House of Representatives voted 69-25 to expel one of its members over sexual harassment allegations,” after the North Dakota Legislative Council released 14 pages of co[...]
March 4th, 2021 - 4:06 pm § in Law and Courts
Amy Comey Barrett’s first opinion interprets FOIA
Trump-appointed Justice Amy Comey Barrett’s first opinion, supported by 6 other justices, upholds applying the Freedom of Information Act’s “deliberative process” exemption to email exchanges between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and two other federal agencies whi[...]