“POSSIBLY THE MOST EMBARRASSINGLY AIRHEADED WAPO HEADLINE EVER. MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST WALK AWAY.” But here it is: “Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Elizabeth Warren selfies do the same?”
Archive for 2019
September 20, 2019
FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE FULLER COURT: Hans v. State of Louisiana (1890), U.S. v. E.C. Knight (1895), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Champion v. Ames (1903), Lochner v. New York (1905), and Muller v. Oregon (1908).
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THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE SALT REACTORS.
YES: Censure Vote Against Kyrsten Sinema Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. “Democrats’ very public reprimand of Sinema is not about addressing dissatisfaction among the electorate. It’s about shaming someone for not prioritizing uniformity over the interests of voters.”
I WONDER WHAT THEY’LL USE TO DEFLECT FROM HIS CHINA SCANDAL: Deep state deflecting Biden’s Ukraine scandal with whistleblower complaint.
Everybody knows this, even the organizers. The real message being sent isn’t to the viewers, but to the young participants: “Mouth our platitudes and we’ll cut you some slack.”
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Bill De Blasio Ends Presidential Bid.
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Offers to Buy Out an Entire Texas Village for Triple the Value.
FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE WAITE COURT: U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia (1880), The Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886).
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HMM: Colt to Stop Manufacturing AR-15 Rifles for Consumer Market… for Now?
Colt’s been in trouble for a while now, and this is just a market retrenchment — nothing political.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Critics Say ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Is Racist Call for Trump Wall.
Easy call: It won’t turn out to be nearly as intolerant as “Knives Out.”
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SO RACIST? Virginia public colleges make Asian Americans work harder to get in, study finds.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? D.C. approves law to allow licensed students to consume medical marijuana at school.
Just don’t show up at school with tobacco products or, heaven forbid, a vape pen.
QUADRENNIAL QUESTION: Did Joe Biden Get a Facelift?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Catherine O’Hara, ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ and Comedy Brilliance.
Having spent most of my adult life in the comedy business, I’m a bit picky when it comes to sitcoms and whatever else is put forth as humor on television, especially in recent years. Veep bores me. The Big Bang Theory was painful. Modern Family has its moments, I will admit. I do like The Good Place.
Schitt’s Creek, however, is the funniest non-animated thing I’ve seen on television in a long time, and I’m afraid I may never see anything this good again. O’Hara is absolutely unreal. The show was created by her old SCTV colleague Eugene Levy and his son Daniel. If Levy didn’t write this part for his old friend, she immediately made it look as if it were written for her.
Great show.
HARDLY A SURPRISE: NYU prof’s ‘lack of professionalism’ is ‘worst idea’ conservatives have of liberals. “A New York University ‘feminist’ journalism course taught by Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca was reportedly such a misfire that her students collectively filed a complaint with the university. Duca’s students claim that her course had no practical structure, that her classroom behavior was inappropriate, and that she ‘consistently targeted’ a foreign exchange student.”
This is exactly what anyone who has paid any attention at all to her would have expected. And yet. . .
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: In Advance Of Monday’s Jury Selection In Dan Markel Murder Case, Magbanua Seeks Separate Trial. Hmm.
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Genetic Modification of Crops Is ‘Rape,’ Botanist Says.
METAPHOR ALERT: Democratic donor Ed Buck paid at least 10 men to use drugs for his own pleasure, prosecutors say.
What’s huge is that both the LA Times, above, and the Washington Post, yesterday, describe him as a “Democratic donor” in the headlines.
IMAGINING A WORLD WITHOUT QUALIFIED IMMUNITY.