This requires a little backgrounding before getting into the story. Bear with me, it’s worth your time. First of all, it involves a Republican food fight. Tim Michels (profile here), a rich guy who owns a $17 million Connecticut castle, wants to be Wisconsin’s governor. So does Rebecca K[...]
Archive for July, 2022
July 24th, 2022 - 9:52 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump wants to tell your daughter who she can date
July 24th, 2022 - 8:53 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another criminally irresponsible pitbull owner
If you let 7 snarling pitbulls run loose and they bite, gnaw, and chew an elderly man to death, how much prison time should you get? This happened in Texas, of course, a state populated by people with a laissez-faire attitude toward dogs and guns, but intolerant of black people who try to vote. Thei[...]
July 24th, 2022 - 8:32 am § in Business, Law and Courts
T-Mobile settles data breach for $4.55 per victim
T- Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to “nearly 80 million” customers whose personal information was stolen in a cyberattack against the company, ABC News reported on Sunday, July 24, 2022 (read story here). The stolen information included names, Social Security numbers, and driver&[...]
July 23rd, 2022 - 6:16 pm § in Politics
Does Wyoming have character?
Wyoming is a very red state; in 2020, Trump beat Biden 70%-27% there, and its legislature sports 57 Republicans to 12 Democrats. But the state is so sparsely populated it has only one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Like its governor and U.S. senators, its congressperson is a statewide el[...]
July 23rd, 2022 - 1:12 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
A brief primer on why Civil Service exists and why we shouldn’t let GOPers tamper with it
“Donald Trump plans to enact a massive purge of federal workers and fill their positions with loyalists should he win re-election in 2024.” According to Wikipedia (here), “The civil service is a collective term for … career civil servants hired on professional merit rather th[...]
Heat danger and federal law
“Excessive heat has been the leading weather-related killer in America for 30 years,” Huffington Post says. “Getting sick because of heat is an unfortunately common risk.” But workers have little legal protection if employers fire them for refusing to work in dangerously hot [...]
July 22nd, 2022 - 11:57 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Everest in black light
I stumbled across this photo and decided to put it up because it’s so unusual. I don’t know if it’s been digitally altered. Maybe. I think it’s too dark for computer wallpaper; but the color, the composition, the base hidden in clouds, and cottony feel of the image make this [...]
July 22nd, 2022 - 9:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The sprint seen around the world
This segment of the Jan. 6 hearings probably was gratuitous. By that I mean showing Josh Hawley fleeing for his life from the mob isn’t necessary to explain to the American people that Trump was derelict during the violent attack on the Capitol. But it’s understandably too juicy to ignor[...]
July 22nd, 2022 - 5:59 pm § in Misc.
Another case of voting fraud!
Barry Morphew, 53, pleaded guilty on Thursday, July 21, 2022, to casting his missing wife’s ballot because he thought Trump could use another vote. See story here. It wasn’t enough; Biden carried Colorado by nearly 439,745 votes (439,744 if you count only one of Morphew’s votes); s[...]
July 21st, 2022 - 2:24 pm § in Environment, Law and Courts
Using courts for social change has limits
Legislatures legislate, and courts adjudicate. Washington law requires DNR to manage state-owned trust lands for the financial benefit of schools, other state institutions, and counties in some cases (if they gave land to the state). Think logging. That policy goes back to statehood, when the federa[...]