Saturday Morning Post Pi Day Links

by | Mar 16, 2024 | Daily Links | 170 comments

My students wanted to know if I’d cancel classes on Pi Day. I told them that would be irrational. I did expect them to arrange their desks in a circle, but that backfired when the students behind me started making funny noises, as in “fart under the arm” noises. I turned around and…. WHAP! Right out of the Three Stooges. God bless student loans.

And Yahweh bless birthdays, because today’s include a guy who wrote something that no-one read; a guy who was tempted but resisted; a guy famous as a wife-swapper; one of the heroes of the Progressive Left; a woman who drank because she got too much dick; a guy who was satisfied with being number two; the star of the very best Scorsese movie; the last intelligent liberal politician; and a guy who had the true Motown sound. I looked for some obscure chemists but couldn’t find any. Sorry, Pi, uhhhh, Pie.

And off to Links.

 

Wait, you mean a useless bullshit symbolic sop to the Far Left might be a dumb idea?

 

Am I being cynical to observe that this looks like total protectionist bullshit for some lobbyists?

 

Somebody needs to get whacked.

 

Weirdly commonsensical. Maybe because it’s not Manhattan?

 

He had evidence that would lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

 

“Every time we tell him to do something idiotic, he says no. He’s a fascist!”

 

The shocking thing to me is that Salon still exists.

 

Jokes write themselves.

 

Old Guy Music is a fine rendition by a birthday boy of a Charlie Parker classic.

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Old Man With Candy

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170 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    I always thought the Greek Mythology classes got it off so they could do independent study on the story of Persephone and Diameter.

  2. SDF-7

    a guy who wrote something that no-one read

    :stunned silence:

    :rabid applause:

    Ok — shut down the Internet for the weekend, OMWC already won it.

  3. SDF-7

    Am I being cynical to observe that this looks like total protectionist bullshit for some lobbyists?

    No…. no you’re not.

    The cynical question would be what DC does that isn’t some bullshit to enrich lobbyists these days.

    Ok… there’s stuff to empower the IC and their quest to rule over the populace, true….

    • prolefeed

      What’s the acronym “IC” mean?

      • Gender Traitor

        Intelligence Community, I believe.

  4. juris imprudent

    wrote something that no-one read

    Happy Birthday Thomas Pynchon!

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Happy birthday James Joyce

    • Ted S.

      Happy birthday links compilers!

      • Fourscore

        Who?

      • Aloysious

        OM has piles? That’s unfortunate.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Happy Birthday Marcel Proust!

  5. SDF-7

    Somebody needs to get whacked.

    A small part of me thinks “At least these folks have the courage of their convictions. Since they apparently truly believe humanity / society / whatnot is an existential threat to life on Earth, they’re taking a stand and risking their bodies and their careers.”

    The the larger part of me says “Too bad they’re morons who have been brainwashed by their teachers, used as pawns for trying to tear down Western Civilization so a techno-dictatorship can replace it. Said dictatorship being almost certain to put these doofuses up against the wall (since they demonstrated they have the courage of their convictions but can be persuaded to stupid things and all)…”

    In toto, I’m more than a little amazed these yahoos haven’t been getting a surreptitious beat-down from people tired of their obnoxious disorderly crap.

    • slumbrew

      They mostly stick to lefty strongholds for these shenanigans. I’d expect more beatings elsewhere.

      • Grumbletarian

        That’s why they were so shrill about Jason Aldean’s little song.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

        “How dare he shine a light on our blatant cowardice?!”

      • prolefeed

        How many holdouts to the Church of Climate Progressivism (CCP) were they thinking they’d find at a theater play in NYC? Besides Imperioli?

    • Sean

      They are bullies, hiding behind a veneer of their bullshit causes.

      • R C Dean

        This. And because its Current Day, the men are, somehow, Low-T bullies.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Whoever coined the word, “crybullies” was 102% correct.

    • cavalier973

      Why can’t the Greenies set themselves on fire as an example of how to solve climate change?

      “Courage of their convictions”.

      Bah! If they were really true believers, they’d be dead right now.

      • Old Man With Candy

        That would generate greenhouse gases.

      • juris imprudent

        As if every breath they exhale doesn’t do the same?

      • SDF-7

        So because of every breath they take they shouldn’t worry about every move they make?

      • Sean

        Call the pun police.

      • R C Dean

        Waddayagonna do? Call the police?

      • R C Dean

        Dammit!

      • Sean

        😛

      • TARDis

        Your synchronicity is off, RC.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The plastic bag banners should use one last bag on their own head.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Good luck deadhead, and thank you.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fuck. Was supposed to be standalone.

  6. rhywun

    Am I being cynical to observe that this looks like total protectionist bullshit for some lobbyists?

    I would have thought that “Made in USA” was a pretty straightforward concept. Neither the before nor the after definitions look straightforward to me.

    So, no.

  7. juris imprudent

    Are you saying those knights were errant?

  8. rhywun

    Can’t comment on the climate clown story but yeah I’m pretty mild-mannered and those folks have me seriously reconsidering.

  9. Ted S.

    guy who was tempted but resisted

    Happy birthday Jools Holland!

  10. rhywun

    MTA CEO Janno Lieber says there is no place for guns on trains

    Shut up, Janno. The adults are talking.

  11. Ted S.

    There were trans health care books in Nazi Germany?

    • SDF-7

      I would expect there were guides on how to shower for them at least.

    • juris imprudent

      There’s even a movie, Ilsa – Xe Wolf of the SS.

    • R C Dean

      Apparently. The Nazis weren’t big on homosexuals and definitely targeted them, so I imagine they weren’t crazy about trannies, either. The article goes on to talk about some kind of research institute. I have no doubt the claims about trannies and research are exaggerated, but it looks like there’s something there.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        The article is, predicably, muddled, but it looks like some sort of trans Mengele was around and Hitler (or someone in his circle) ended it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It looks like they’re trying to make pre-Hitler Germany out to be something of a trans haven of enlightenment and acceptance. That if only Hitler had not destroyed this “library” or these research materials the world would be some trans-paradise.

        I’m calling bullshit. Did the Nazis destroy books related to sexuality research? Probably. Along with the millions of others books they burned.

  12. R C Dean

    Trying to put together that subway shooting from the story. As near as I can tell:

    The guy who got shot (no names in the story, so Mr. X) was already on the train with a knife and a gun. Turns out he jumped the turnstile earlier to get on.

    The guy who shot him, Mr. Y, gets on the train with some woman (Ms. Z). There was some kind of “dispute” which became an “altercation” between Mr. X and Mr. Y. During which Ms. Z stabs Mr. X in the back with some kind of knife. Mr. X then pulls the gun, which Mr. Y takes from, and shoots him twice in the head and once each in the head and neck.

    The first use of a weapon is by a member of Mr. Y’s party, Ms. Z. But if Mr. X really was the aggressor (as the cops apparently concluded), then I think it’s probably a good call. Once you start a fight, you can’t complain if it escalates. But that really assumes Mr. X threw the first punch.

    • prolefeed

      Seems like when Mr. X pulled a gun on Mr. Y, Mr. Y had every reason to suspect a deadly attack was imminent, and to take whatever steps were needed to defend himself.

      The initial stabbing by the woman clouds that a bit, if it can be proven she did it at the urging of Mr. Y. Or if the gun was pulled on her, and not at Mr. X.

      But I could see the police reluctance to arrest anyone when there was reasonable doubt about whether the shooting was self-defense or not.

    • slumbrew

      I watched the video that leads up to the shooting.

      Mr. X spent a lot of time threatening to beat Mr. Y. Mr.X Austin has several inches and a bunch of pounds on Mr. Y.

      They do indeed start throwing hands, with Mr. Y getting the worst of it, getting tagged in the face pretty good then ending up in a seat with Mr X on top of him. It’s at this point Ms. Z steps in and stands Mr. X in the back several times.

      Mr. X is somewhat incredulous she stabbed him and and this point pulls a knife and gun out of his coat. Video ends here.

      • slumbrew

        Posted too soon. IANAL, but it seems Ms. Z escalated an assault to something much deadlier.

  13. rhywun

    The shocking thing to me is that Salon still exists.

    Maybe JK is wrong in the specifics, but watching all the usual suspects pounce is quite amusing. They file this stuff in their brains waiting for the right opportunity to GOTCHA. Which is less amusing.

  14. Cunctator

    Testing—getting internal server error when I try to post

    • Cunctator

      So yeah, that one goes through

    • Cunctator

      Hmmm, I can these offhand comments to post, but not the comment I want to post. No profanity, no links.

      • SDF-7

        The server squirrels are devious and opinionated some days, unfortunately.

      • Cunctator

        Is there a word that the squirrels don’t like?

      • juris imprudent

        I’ve yet to figure it out. I think they are just moody.

      • Sean

        Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, they let YOU post it!

      • Fourscore

        Is that the acronym?

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, yeah! I almost forgot about this song, written and performed by a friend.

      • SDF-7

        Not that I’ve ever been able to tell. Some days (as you’ve observed) there are just comments they won’t let through. Rewording them (typically simplifying — but that’s more an aspect of my initial reactions tend to be verbose, so if I have to rewrite — they get trimmed) often allows them through. If there’s a pattern, I have not detected one.

      • rhywun

        We’ve been trying to figure that out for years.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Antidisestablishmentarianism

    • Old Man With Candy

      YOUNG MAN, YOU HAD BETTER NOT MAKE ME REBOOT THIS SERVER!

    • SDF-7

      +1 Disappointed…. I was expecting a Maginot Line of Cow-butts.

      • Ted S.

        Maybe we can get UCS to use his AI to produce one.

  15. SDF-7

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    • Sean

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  16. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    whats goody yo

    TALL WEEKEND CANS!

    *my head hurts from Zoom- someone check on Swiss

  17. Cunctator

    Since I can’t my original comment to post, I will post just the essence.

    Fuck Hamas and the Pro-Palestinian protesters.

    Mike McDonald

  18. TARDis

    Ummm. Did a bunch of posts just get deleted? Or do I need a mental health professional?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Not by any of the site staff.

    • PieInTheSky

      it was the CIA! you need a tinfoil hat not a doctor

  19. Sean

    So, I had a bit falling out with the Fresh Market over a month ago. The issue was primarily over their sudden discontinuation of “single use” plastic bags. No notice. And then the smug progressive prick at the register tried to tell us it was state law. I told him the fucking state liquor store right next to them used plastic bags all day long, he doubled down and told us to Google it. Spoiler alert, it’s not.

    I haven’t been back since.

    https://www.landismarket.com/

    This is my new go to. All the plastic bags you want and no bullshit bag charges.

    Vote with your dollars. As much as you can.

    • Aloysious

      Country style pork ribs?? Want. They’d make a great side for that t-bone.

    • rhywun

      Why this is a Federal case is a question left for the reader.

      • Gender Traitor

        Grandpa Joe needs his daily soft-serve cone.

      • Beau Knott

        BTW, thanks for the hug in the pre-links. It was appreciated. I would dare to suggest you are by far the nicest person on the site.

      • Gustave Lytton

        GT is glibs’ own daily ray of sunshine.

      • Gender Traitor

        Awww, thanks. ::blushes::

        (Confession: I’m not really a nice person. I just play one on the internet.)

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ahh, but you could have played a grumping asshole like me and didn’t.

    • PieInTheSky

      ,
      Balenciaga is shit fashion sold by people like the Kardashian to morons, imho

  20. PieInTheSky

    as it is past 4 PM, what is everyone drinking?

    I have another Romanian Pint Noir at 12% and I really like this one. Good fruit, tannin to give it structure, fairly high acidity, not bad at all. despite the 12% it could age a few years nicely.

    https://www.vivino.com/IT/en/familia-darabont-urme-pinot-noir/w/11488668

    OMWC have you ever had Romanee Conti ?

    • Old Man With Candy

      RC? ’70, ’72, ’78, ’85, ’88, and ’90. I’ve done some tastings there as well.

      • PieInTheSky

        damn must be good to be old money

      • Old Man With Candy

        I don’t keep any of my money long enough for it to age.

        I may have over assumed that you were talking about La Romanee rather than any of the DRC wines. If the latter, I’ve had a lot more La Tache than any other of their vineyards. ’93 is still my favorite so far, but it’s been a few years since I’ve had it.

      • PieInTheSky

        yes DRC. I saw the first episode of the gentlemen tv show and the duke had a cellar of very rare DRC

  21. PieInTheSky

    My magnolia is starting to peak, 10 days earlier than last year

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/Lxiw5Fbi7j4JtpHYA

    Mine is a little slower than others so we are in peak magnolia season in Bucharest

    • Gender Traitor

      Mine is not peaking yet, but I’m worried that an impending cold spell is going to wreck its blossoms again. 😞

      • PieInTheSky

        cold spell wise I am more worried about the apricot trees than the magnolia. The cherry plum trees in the city are past their peak but at my moms in the suburbs apricots and cherry plums are just starting.

    • juris imprudent

      …resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups.

      Abrupt? You can say that again!

    • Common Tater

      Melrose Place was a documentary.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    The new rule is voluntary, meaning companies don’t have to put a USA label on their meat product if they don’t want to, but it could still have a large impact on what meat Americans choose to consume.

    Numerous scientific studies have shown that country of origin labeling affects consumer demand levels on food products. A 2003 study found consumers were “willing to pay an average of $184 per household annually for a mandatory country-of-origin labeling program.”

    Scientific studies. Sure.

    Bring on the Argentine beef.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Survey find consumers are willing to pay $34.86 more for certified maggotless beef.

    • prolefeed

      Not mentioned in the article: how the rules change the existing labeling requirements. Some fine journalisming there.

      I’m thinking stated versus revealed preferences on how much people would pay extra for a “Made in the U.S. label”, side by side in the meat section in a grocery store. A buck and a half extra for steak?

      • Common Tater

        The stuff labeled from Australia is pretty good.

      • rhywun

        Was thinking the same. In fact, I’ve never seen beef labeled as specifically “from” somewhere other than the US or Australia.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    “Respondents were also willing to pay an average of $1.53 and $0.70 per pound more for steak and hamburger labeled as ‘U.S. Certified Steak’ and ‘U.S. Certified Hamburger,’ which is equivalent to an increase of 38 percent and 58 percent, respectively, over the initial given price,” the study from the Western Agricultural Economics Association found.

    Were they also willing to pay five bucks to see the Great Egress?

  24. DrOtto

    “The 36 year old victim was shot 4 times with his own gun.” Here’s how I would have wrote that sentence, but I’m not simping for the anti-gun crowd “The victim managed to take the aggressor’s gun and shoot him 4 times in what prosecutors are describing as self-defense.”

  25. PieInTheSky

    Am I being cynical to observe that this looks like total protectionist bullshit for some lobbyists?

    if you don’t eat meat you should not have an opinion on it

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Bungalow Courts: LA’s Best Housing No One Builds Anymore

    You see those in old movies. They should build some and call them “tiny home villages”.

    • Ted S.

      +1 Veda Pierce

    • Lackadaisical

      The general trend isn’t exactly surprising.. Except that I don’t believe the Australians at all.

      • prolefeed

        I’m surprised the U.S. men in that age group averaged right of center.

      • rhywun

        I don’t think our media is giving us anything approaching an accurate picture of Americans today. Sure, the diagram is probably pulled out of someone’s ass but the relative differences seem believable.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This. We’ve been subject to CIA-style psychological warfare for a long time, and that’s been ratcheted up exponentially since 2016, and even moreso since 2020. That the US would be different than what is portrayed and that we believe it to be shouldn’t be surprising. They’re trying hard. Fortunately people seem to be catching on a little bit.

  27. Lackadaisical

    “The 36-year-old victim was shot four times with his own gun. According to police sources, he was armed with a knife and gun and acting as the aggressor when he got into a dispute with a 32-year-old subway rider.”
    Leave it to a journalist to confuse the meanings of victim and perpetrator.

  28. PieInTheSky

    Culture Critic
    @Culture_Crit
    Where did this depressing architecture come from?

    Is it really designed to demoralize us as @TuckerCarlson
    says?
    A thread… 🧵

    Brutalist architecture is anti-human. It’s inextricably linked to sinister social engineering – an attempt to subdue the spirit of humans as individuals, and reduce them to property of the state.

    https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1768662694662447254

    • Gustave Lytton

      The ones on the right are Internationalist, not Brutalist. There is a difference.

      • rhywun

        The ones on the right are Internationalist, not Brutalist.

        Yup.

        As for “intent”, well… in certain times and places – like the USSR – yes. But mostly no. People need to be aware that architecture style is mostly about trends and copies.

        That hideous English theater isn’t trying to send a message, it’s just telling us how avant-garde they are by following the latest trend.

  29. Grumbletarian

    Contusions, lacerations, and abrasions, oh my!

    The family of Nex Benedict is speaking out about the incomplete and premature medical examiner report released earlier this week, and releasing new information they have learned from the medical examiner “to ensure that other pertinent portions of the report are not overshadowed by the ‘classification’ of Nex’s death.”

    In the statement from their attorney, the Benedict family says they felt compelled to release the new information to avoid allowing “incomplete accounts to take hold and spread any further.”

    The vile bigoted right-wing ultra-MAGA state of Oklahoma is trying to hide something, but the truth is now coming out!

    Nex, a 16-year-old 2STGNC+ (Two Spirit, transgender, gender nonconforming+) student

    Uh huh… Now you’re just playing Gender Boggle.

    The Benedict family statement includes direct quotes from the report it received noting trauma to Nex’s head and neck, hemorrhages, scalp lacerations, as well as lacerations and bruising on the torso and extremities.

    If I picked a fight with three people and only came out with cuts scrapes, and bruises, I’d count myself lucky. But in this case those were totally the true cause of death!

    • rhywun

      This need to push a message by examining specific injuries – coming from the family no less – is a tad off-putting.

      • Grummun

        If the family (parents) was enabling Nex’s confused sexuality, perhaps they would much rather the death be about hateful bigots than drug abuse. The latter puts the family environment and parental care in more a negative light.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Schumer meddling in foreign election: it’s okay when we do it.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    WaPo is braying about the immensity of Pence’s refusal to endorse the cartoon villain.

    This will undoubtedly sway the votes of dozens of on-the-fence voters. Democracy hangs in the balance.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I still say there’s a greater than zero chance Trump picks Pence again.

      • juris imprudent

        Only because Trump doesn’t ever seem to learn from his mistakes.

      • Grummun

        Trump’s greatest error* was picking the people he had around him.

        * A lot of competition for that title, I know.

      • Mojeaux

        It has beenpointed out to me that perhaps he didn’t have the best pool to choose from because the good ones backed away from the swamp. Not Trump. The swamp.

      • slumbrew

        This. It’s was made clear that working for Trump would be career suicide, so his options were greatly reduced.

      • slumbrew

        (although I still think he’s easily swayed – just flatter him and suddenly you’re “a tremendous guy, great ideas”)

  32. The Late P Brooks

    If I picked a fight with three people and only came out with cuts scrapes, and bruises, I’d count myself lucky. But in this case those were totally the true cause of death!

    How portion of those “injuries” were self-inflicted?

  33. PieInTheSky

    A furious mob of pensioners besieged a council meeting in protest over plans to build a 60-bed care home and a new church in their quiet village.

    The army of mostly grey-haired residents pressed themselves against windows and banged on the glass in objection against the proposals which they worry could bring noise and pollution.

    The 60-strong gang surrounded the building from both sides while elected members debated the matter inside.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201297/Angry-mob-pensioners-press-against-windows-bang-glass-protest-against-care-home.html

    • rhywun

      Yeesh, the news has really bottomed out.

  34. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    First day in months that I didn’t have to turn on the heat as soon as I woke up…summer is coming 😭

  35. The Late P Brooks

    I’m surprised the U.S. men in that age group averaged right of center.

    Ivy League social justice activists are a very small slice of the 15 to 25 male population.

    • PieInTheSky

      was it a long and arduous task?

  36. Mojeaux

    God bless JK Rowling.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      If feminists were real people and believed what they preached, JK Rowling would be their idol for what she’s accomplished in her life.

      • Mojeaux

        If feminists (other than the rads) were real people and believed what they preached, they wouldn’t applaud men in womanface or tolerate them in female spaces or competing with women in sports.

        I stead, they’re so insecure they need a man’s validation that femaledom is where it’s at. I do not need a man with a fetish to validate my rightful womanhood.

    • PieInTheSky

      which one there’s hundreds

      • Gender Traitor

        Of JK Rowlings or of gods?

      • PieInTheSky

        both I assume

      • rhywun

        The Nazi one.

      • Common Tater

        It’s two retards fighting.

  37. Common Tater

    “A celebrated Harvard honesty professor who researched why people cheat tampered with data in her work — and should be fired, a university probe released this week found.

    Francesca Gino, a star behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School whose work has focused on dishonesty, was found to have tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted their hypotheses, according to a nearly 1,300-page report detailing the school’s months-long investigation.

    “The committee concludes that Professor Gino has engaged in multiple instances of research misconduct, across all four studies at issue in these allegations,” the report read.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/harvard-professor-of-honesty-tampered-with-data-and-should-be-fired-probe/

    You can’t make this stuff up.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      They’re just trying to make themselves out to look like Rigorous Scholars™️ in the wake of their ex-president plagiarism scandal. I’m hoping they start full-on witch hunts for shit scholars, but if they did that a lot of departments would be left hollow.

      • Suthenboy

        So leave ’em hollow.

    • Lackadaisical

      That’s old news.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    HIJACKED

    An award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg has gone to a slate of accomplished women since it was launched four years ago to honor the legacy of the late Supreme Court justice known for championing women’s rights and liberal causes. This year is different.

    Next month, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation will present the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award to four men and Martha Stewart. Among the winners are two convicted felons, the founder of right-wing Fox News, and Elon Musk.

    Stewart, Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken and Sylvester Stallone are the five “iconic” and “exceptional” recipients of the 2024 RBG Leadership Award, the organizing foundation said in a news release on Wednesday.

    Where are the sex change vivisectionists and purveyors of primitive superstitions?

    • Common Tater

      Sylvester Stallone?

  39. Common Tater

    “Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff publicly raising money for relief group allegedly tied to Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel

    Ella Emhoff — whose father is second gentleman Doug Emhoff — is currently posting a link to UNRWA’s English-language fundraising page on her personal Instagram.

    “We urge Ms. Emhoff to go on the website of UN Watch and read our reports showing how UNRWA teachers and school principals systematically promote and encourage Jihadi terrorism and the slaughter of Jews,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of the nonprofit United Nations watchdog…

    UNRWA, the largest employer in Gaza, has long faced international criticism for its close ties to Hamas, which has ruled the enclave since 2006.

    President Trump cut US aid to the organization in 2018 — a decision President Biden initially reversed when he took office.

    Under Biden’s leadership, at least $730 million found its way to UNRWA’s coffers.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/kamala-harris-stepdaughter-ella-emhoff-publicly-raising-money-for-unrwa-despite-alleged-terror-ties/

    The only surprising thing here is that she works as a model.

    • rhywun

      “We urge Ms. Emhoff to go on the website of UN Watch and read our reports showing how UNRWA teachers and school principals systematically promote and encourage Jihadi terrorism and the slaughter of Jews,”

      How do we know she didn’t?

    • Ted S.

      Under Biden’s leadership, at least $730 million found its way to UNRWA’s coffers

      It’s like those police guns that magically discharge all by themselves.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    In an email to NPR, RBG’s son singled out two recipients in his condemnation of the new criteria.

    “… that is quite a step down from the original criteria and, apparently, means people like Murdoch and Musk who are antithetical to everything Mom stood for, qualify,” Jim Ginsburg said. “Speaking only for myself, I would say that those who foment hatred and undermine democracy do not stand for the ideals of equality, respect, and engagement my mother strived to advance.”

    As we all know, an unelected Supreme Court judge, appointed for life by a President, is the ultimate expression of the democratic ideal.

    • rhywun

      those who foment hatred and undermine democracy

      Your tedious opinion was probably neither required nor requested.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The girl on the bicycle might have been drunk.

    • Sensei

      You think?

      And/or distracted by the phone on the bars.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Worse than lynch mobs

    For more than a decade, conservative plaintiffs have been gaming the judiciary by filing lawsuits before a hard-right judge who’s guaranteed to rule in their favor. Worse, a handful of Republican-appointed judges have made a habit of issuing sweeping decisions that apply nationwide—hobbling the federal government, short-circuiting the democratic process, and transferring inconceivable amounts of power into the hands of a few unelected jurists. The Judicial Conference of the United States, which makes policy for the federal courts, finally struck a blow against this cynical gamesmanship on Tuesday, announcing a new rule to restore the random assignment of cases and close the loophole that lets plaintiffs hand-pick their judges.

    On the Slate Plus bonus segment of Saturday’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the new policy and its furious reception among the fringe-right faction of the judiciary.

    How can those rogue judges be permitted to disagree with the Beltway Consensus?

    • Grumbletarian

      Meanwhile, a judge in New York can dictate property values in Florida because OMB.

      • Suthenboy

        And judges in Hawaii can dictate executive policy.
        This really is nuclear grade progjection. It describes to a T what they are doing to Trump as we speak.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    I do not need a man with a fetish to validate my rightful womanhood.

    That’s not very Stoic of you.

    • Mojeaux

      I don’t think I’m cut out to be a stoic. *eyeballs all the mental health meds in the cabinet*

      • Suthenboy

        Reverse that and I would have to qualify…depends on the fetish…