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March 10th, 2022 - 8:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics

Smoking gun email could undo a Trump lawyer

John Eastman’s sedition has already cost him his teaching gigs. Now, an email has surfaced that could cost him his license to practice law, too. In January 2021, just days after the Capitol riot, he lost his faculty position at Chapman University Law School and his University of Colorado teach[...]

March 10th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Law and Courts

The 500,000 lives lost to America’s other health crisis

“For the first time,” Huffington Post reports (here), “victims of opioid addiction and families who lost loved ones to OxyContin addiction were able to directly confront members of the Sackler family, whose pharmaceutical company was responsible for a crisis that has cost at least [...]

March 10th, 2022 - 4:58 pm § in Health, News Media, Politics, Racism

What, exactly, are they protesting?

I certainly get the feeling it wasn’t just Covid-19 mandates, but something bigger. In a column last week, Seattle Times writer Danny Westneat pointed out that even though all Washington mask mandates will end two days from now (on March 12), the protests against mask mandates go on, and on, a[...]

March 10th, 2022 - 11:22 am § in Donald Trump

Trump wants you to buy him a jet

“Trump appears to be fundraising for a new plane after his private jet made an emergency landing over the weekend,” Huffington Post reported on Thursday, March 20, 2022 (read story here). Because one of its engines crapped out in flight. (I know what you’re thinking, but don’[...]

March 10th, 2022 - 4:26 am § in Misc.

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March 10th, 2022 - 1:09 am § in Health, Politics

Anti-masker calls security guard a “Nazi” for doing his job

Ricky Schroder (bio here) is a minor celebrity, so not-famous I never heard of him until he called a security guard a “Nazi” for doing his job (no mask, no entry).  The Twittersphere isn’t being kind to him (see tweets here). I’m not, either. He’s a jerk. This video sh[...]