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Archive for August, 2022
Will GOP abortion laws drive out companies?
After Indiana enacted a near-total abortion ban last week, two major Indiana employers warned it will hurt job growth there. Eli Lilly and Cummins predicted the law will make it harder to attract “scientific, engineering and business talent” to the state, and Eli Lilly said it now plans [...]
August 6th, 2022 - 2:00 pm § in Politics
Republicans are still violent as ever
Nothing’s changed. CPAC is one of the highest-profile gatherings of conservatives in America. Their keynote speaker is Hungary’s fascist autocrat, and their speeches are laced with violent rhetoric (see story here). Republicans have talked up “civil war” for years. Rightwing [...]
August 6th, 2022 - 1:06 pm § in Law and Courts
It’s time for Steven Gass to retire
Steven Gregory Gass is 67 now. He’s been “working” since 1976. He’s needs to rest. The judge should put him out to pasture. Gass began robbing banks at age 20 and never quit, though his career was periodically interrupted by let’s call them “extended vacations.[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
August 5th, 2022 - 12:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Hate crime slasher gets 25 years
A 19-year-old Hispanic Texas man upset about the Covid-19 pandemic who followed a Burmese family into a store and attacked them with knives in March 2020 because he thought they were Chinese was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison (read story here). Jose Gomez III, now 21 (photo, left), was char[...]
August 5th, 2022 - 10:48 am § in Science
PHOTOGRAPHY: Astronomy
A French astronomer sent out the tweet below. Translated, it says, “Photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light-years from us. It was taken by the JWST. This level of detail… A new world is revealing itself day by day.” It’s actually a slice of S[...]
August 5th, 2022 - 12:03 am § in Politics
Tina Peters gains 23 votes in recount
Unfortunately for her, her leading rival gained 24 votes, so she fell 1 vote farther behind. Peters, the rogue county clerk indicted for election crimes, originally lost the GOP primary for Colorado secretary of state by 88,578 votes (details here). Now, she lost by 88,579 votes. Unhappy with the or[...]
August 4th, 2022 - 6:19 pm § in Misc.
Lightning rod
Four people near a bronze statue of Andrew Jackson (pictured below) in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House, were hit by lightning and sustained life-threatening injuries during thunderstorms in Washington D.C. on Thursday, August 4, 2022 (story here). There may be a metaphor in [...]
August 4th, 2022 - 3:00 pm § in Misc.
Top stories on 8/4/22
A motel called police about a white guy stealing TVs, so the cops violently arrested a black guy on his way home from work. Story here — Four cops in Breonna Taylor case face federal charges. Story here[...]