HOPE FOR ATLANTA OFFICER ROLFE AFTER DA LOSES RE-ELECTION: “Officer Garrett Rolfe was maliciously charged with murder and ten other counts in June by then-District Attorney Paul Howard. Last night, Howard was unseated by a tenacious young woman who worked under Howard for 16 years. Fani Willis won in a landslide with 73% of the vote.”
Archive for 2020
August 13, 2020
WHAT DID ROMAN EMPERORS LOOK LIKE? A Novel Blend of AI and Art Conjures Up Eerily Detailed Photographic Portraits.
WOW, I’M GLAD WE CLEARED THAT UP: Fact check: Tom Hanks is now a Greek citizen, but pedophilia has nothing to do with it.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Justice Department Finds Yale Admissions Illegally Discriminated Against Asian American and White Applicants.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT NOW: Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
Last Monday night the council voted by a 7-1 margin to initiate their first series of cuts to the police budget, putting in motion the events that led directly to Chief Best’s departure 24 hours later. The lone holdout was 46-year-old, Indian-born city councilwoman Kshama Sawant, a socialist who believes that her adopted city is a ‘playground for the rich’ — rich who need to be punitively taxed. Among other public effusions, Sawant has called for the Seattle-based Amazon to be taken into public ownership, and once denounced tributes to the late Barbara Bush as ‘giving cover to the ruling class, and ultimately undermining struggles against oppression’.
Just to be clear: Councilwoman Sawant wasn’t voting against the first round of Seattle’s police cuts because she was concerned they might adversely affect morale, jeopardize public safety, and make it impossible for Chief Best to remain in her job. Just the opposite. She voted against them not because they were too radical, but because they weren’t radical enough.
As a wise man once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
I WOULDN’T FORCE IT, BUT I DO ENCOURAGE IT: Should Colleges (And Law Schools) Force Students To Turn Their Cameras On In Online Classes? A blank screen reduces the interactive feel of the class.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Heroes Fighting Cancel Culture.
I WOULDN’T MIND HIM PLAGIARIZING FROM REAGAN, IF HE MEANT IT: Reagan Speechwriter: Biden Just Plagiarized From Reagan.
In The Appearance of Impropriety, Peter Morgan and I devoted an entire chapter to plagiarism and its uses, including an extensive discussion of Biden’s issue.
SOMETIMES, BLATANT SEX DISCRIMINATION IS OKAY: Male-Only Military Draft Is Constitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules.
THE NARRATIVE IS ALL: Five Year-Old Boy Shot at Point Blank Range, National Media Mostly Silent. “Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters. Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month.”
WEIRD HOW PEOPLE IN THE FIREARMS INDUSTRY ARE UNFAZED BY THE WOKE MOB: Streamlight Donates $127,000 to COPS Non-Profit. The money goes to aid the families of fallen officers.
MEDIA FEARS SETBACKS AHEAD IF LIBEL LAWS ARE REFORMED: Media advocates worry about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ suggestion that it’s time for federal courts to re-examine libel law doctrines prompted by the 1964 Sullivan decision. They should be worried, as University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Reynolds explains why Thomas has a point and lays out a moderate path forward.
CHANGE: US Unemployment Benefits Weekly Claims Fell Below 1 Million First Time in Covid. Note that Bloomberg takes a negative slant anyway.
DOMINIC GREEN: The UAE-Israel deal is a triumph of Trump’s personal diplomacy. The usual suspects will minimize this breakthrough.
Not least of which, as Scott Adams tweets, is CNN: “Nothing is funnier than watching CNN try to turn a Middle East peace deal into some kind of Trump mistake. It will take all of their disinformation talents to pull this off.”
IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Alpacas provide new hope for a COVID-19 cure.
YEAH, THAT’S A SOLID DAY’S DRIVE: Lucid Air EV Crushes 500 Miles-On-a-Single-Charge Barrier: Lucid Air has achieved a Holy Grail of EV technology—an electric car that sneers at “range anxiety.”
That said, I got over 800 miles out of the Audi A8L diesel I tested a few years back.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE; MOVE ALONG: Kamala Harris Wants To Ban Trump From Twitter, And Her Former Spokesman Is Now Twitter’s Top Censorship Flak.
THE MANCHURIAN MEDIA: CNN is all in for Kamala Harris (and maybe also Joe Biden). “We are one step away from someone at CNN going on the air and proclaiming that Harris is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being they have ever known in their life. A dangerous time to tell the truth in America indeed.”