Getting up in front of a school board meeting and saying you object to vaccine and mask requirements is free speech. Peacefully marching with signs in front of a school district administration office is protest. The following is NOT free speech of protest: dumping chemicals on a school board member&[...]
Archive for October, 2021
October 28th, 2021 - 12:01 am § in Law and Courts, Misc.
How NOT to hire a hitman
Steven Marcus Kelley, 48, of Monroe, Louisiana (photo), is awaiting trial on state charges of sexually assaulting his ex-wife’s daughters, ages 8 and 12, according to a local TV station (story here). He’s presumed innocent of this until found guilty in a court of law. While sitting in ja[...]
October 27th, 2021 - 8:55 pm § in Misc.
Why Republicans lack credibility
Several GOP senators went off half-cocked at Attorney General Merrick Garland in a hearing on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, over a letter describing parents who disrupt school meetings as “domestic terrorists.” They called it “shameful” and demanded he resign. The problem? The[...]
China’s hypersonic test “concerning”
China recently tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic delivery vehicle, although they deny it. Gen. Mark Milley, America’s top military officer, called the test “very concerning” (see story here). There are several things the Pentagon doesn’t like about these weapons in our adve[...]
October 27th, 2021 - 2:44 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
When school meetings turn into jackass conventions
… this time, in Portland, Oregon. Read story here. Be sure to follow the Twitter thread here. It’s one thing to have legitimate objections to school policies. That’s qualitatively different from believing in false conspiracy theories, engaging in unsafe behavior, and disrupting mee[...]
October 27th, 2021 - 2:21 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
The biggest downside of renting is …
… landlords. In this case, a negligent property manager: “A Kansas City, Kansas mother came home this weekend to find her apartment empty. “She said apartment managers at Gateway Plaza Townhomes first told her to call police thinking there must have been a burglary … she spen[...]
October 27th, 2021 - 10:55 am § in Misc.
Caravaggio mural for sale
The building comes with it. Read story here. Caravaggio was a trend-setting Renaissance painter and fugitive murderer who died in his 30s under mysterious circumstances (read about him here). For a fascinating book about a manhunt for one of his “lost” paintings, go here. Return to The-A[...]
October 26th, 2021 - 6:57 pm § in Misc.
Seattle radio host un-coached over school mascot tweets
Dori Monson is a long-time Seattle conservative radio talk-show host. His side gig is coaching girls high school basketball. In 2016, he coached a Seattle-area team to a state championship (photo, left). It’s not surprising that school district was on the verge of offering him a coaching job f[...]
October 26th, 2021 - 3:46 pm § in Politics
40 public employees who need to be fired
“What kind of person signs up for an antigovernment militia with a government-issued email address? The answer is surprising, revealing — and, as one extremism expert puts it, ‘really alarming,’” begins a Rolling Stone magazine article published on Monday, October 26, 2021. (Re[...]