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[...]
Archive for March, 2022
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 [...]
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.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Rhododendrons
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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[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 10:53 pm § in Russia
Military expert says Russian troops aren’t trained for urban warfare
Putin’s plan “for a quick decapitation of Ukraine’s government and swift capitulation of its major cities” has gone off the rails. Now, his forces must contemplate urban combat, for which they’re “not prepared,” a military expert says (read story here). R[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 9:56 pm § in Economics, Foreign Affairs
Global military spending (chart)
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Where Covid-19 almost certainly came from
There may never be a definitive answer, but genome-tracking scientists have zeroed in on a specific stall at the Wuhan live-animal market (diagram below), and all but ruled out the “lab leak” theory. Read here the complicated story of how they trailed Covid-19 to where it jumped from ani[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 8:07 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Idaho’s GOP legislature threatens LGBQT kids with life in prison for getting sex-change surgery
Idaho Republicans passed a bill on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, “to make it a crime punishable by life in prison for a parent to seek out gender-affirming health care for their transgender child,” NBC News reported (here). Homosexuality and transsexuality are natural phenomenon, but Republica[...]