ANN ALTHOUSE ON GAIL COLLINS ON VIVEK RAMASWAMY: “Why so mean? And why no fear of seeming racist for excluding a person of color? (Of course, I know why. The rules change when the target of hostility is perceived as right wing.)”
That’s why people don’t respect the “rules” anymore. And perhaps never should have.
Related: Jemele Hill Labels Nikki Haley Racist for Suggesting Indian-American Kamala Harris Is Incompetent.
“LIFE RUNS ON RIBOSOMES:” New Research Sheds Light on the Formation of One of Nature’s Most Fundamental Molecules. “Life runs on ribosomes. Every cell across the globe requires ribosomes to convert genetic data into the vital proteins required for the organism’s operation, and, subsequently, for the production of more ribosomes. However, scientists still lack a clear understanding of how these essential nanomachines are assembled. Now, new high-resolution images of the large ribosomal subunit are shedding light on how arguably nature’s most fundamental molecule coalesces in human cells.”
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Jemele Hill Labels Nikki Haley Racist for Suggesting Indian-American Kamala Harris Is Incompetent.
FASTER, PLEASE: NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights.
Related: Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft deemed airworthy by FAA. “Supersonic airliner manufacturer Boom Supersonic has received an experimental airworthiness certificate from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its technology demonstrator aircraft the XB-1 as it continues ground testing. The company is hoping to build the world’s fastest airliner, the Concorde-like Overture, and is using the XB-1 aircraft to demonstrate the tech that will be used when building the final airliner. . . . Despite not yet constructing the aircraft, Boom Supersonic has already received backing from major players in the aviation industry with American Airlines, United, and Japan Airlines all placing pre-orders for the Overture aircraft.”
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Ha! Iowahawk Ends Glorious Thread On Climate Activists Getting Worked in NV by Owning Whiny Troll.
What makes this extra amusing is that the "Rangers" are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man. Native American cops busting up a standoff between two tribes of white progressives is straight up comedy gold https://t.co/YQzvVmTuo2
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 28, 2023
NEWS FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Chicago news crew robbed at gunpoint while covering armed robbery.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Wyoming Sorority Members Forced to Admit Trans-Identifying Male as Court Rejects Suit.
Despite hearing testimony from the women, some of whom stated Langford had “watched” them undress with an erection, Judge Alan Johnson dismissed the case of Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity on August 25. Johnson stated that re-defining “woman” to include males was “Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bedrock right as a private, voluntary organization — and one this Court may not invade.”
In his decision, Johnson wrote: “The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today. The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman’, otherwise undefined in the non-profit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.”
This one is on Kappa Kappa Gamma, which young women would have to be crazy to pledge to in the future.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A “CAMARO” THAT WAS REALLY A K-CAR: What Is a Catfish Camaro? Unpopular Design at the Time, Cool Now.
THE OVERT POLITICIZATION OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM CONTINUES APACE:
Dems tried to set a March 4th date for Trump's GA trial, but Brian Kemp shut that down
So now they're setting a March 4th date for Trump's **DC** case
Blatantly obvious they want Trump in court the day before Super Tuesday pic.twitter.com/PUHvqzKmgQ
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) August 28, 2023
Full details here from Matt Margolis.
READER FAVORITE: Compressed Air Duster – Keyboard Cleaner for Office – Reusable no Canned Air Duster. #CommissionEarned
MONKEYS SHOULDN’T BE DRINKING IN THE FIRST PLACE: Extreme gene therapy treatment for alcoholism slashes drinking by 90% in monkeys.
YOU PEOPLE HAVE CONSTANTLY BEEN ASKING ME WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF FERAL COWS TOOK OVER AN ALASKAN ISLAND. FINALLY, AN ANSWER! This is what happens when feral cows take over a remote Alaskan island.
VICTOR SHOKIN DEMANDED BIDEN PROBE IN 2020: You didn’t hear about it because the Mainstream Media was busy protecting and promoting the Biden presidential campaign. But, as The Lid reports, “the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General filed a complaint with Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation demanding an investigation of then VP Joe Biden for ‘illegal influence on him as the prosecutor general of Ukraine.’”
According to an English translation of the Shokin complaint, he attributed his dismissal to Biden’s demand:
“Owing to my firm position on the above-mentioned cases regarding their prompt and objective investigation, which should have resulted in the arrest and the indictment of the guilty parties, Joseph Biden developed a firmly hostile attitude towards me which led him to express in private conversations with senior Ukrainian officials, as well as in his public speeches, a categorical request for my immediate dismissal from the post of Attorney General of Ukraine in exchange for the sum of US $1 billion in as a financial guarantee from the United States for the benefit of Ukraine.
“Throughout the last months of 2015 and the first months of 2016 Joseph Biden, taking advantage of his position, came several times on official visits to Ukraine in order to negotiate with the leaders of the country my eviction and, consequently, the closing of the objective investigation into the offenses committed by persons associated with the company ‘Burisma Holding Limited’ (Cyprus), including the son of the aforementioned US official.”
For those who depend upon the Mainstream Media, Shokin’s reference to “the son of the aforementioned U.S. official” is to Hunter Biden.
RIP: ‘Joe The Plumber,’ who rose to fame after confronting Obama on 2008 campaign trail, dead at 49.
FLASHBACK: Obamacare Just Spread $11 Billion of Wealth Around.
As Lord Melbourne (1779-1848) would say, “What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): From the comments: “Funny how when these guys spread the wealth around, most of it sticks to them.”
DEMOCRATS KEEP CHOOSING THESE PEOPLE TO REPRESENT THEM AND I KEEP GETTING TOLD IT’S REPUBLICANS BECOMING DANGEROUSLY RADICAL: Colorado Dems Go Full Commie, Choose Open Marxist Who Calls for Cultural Revolution for State House Seat. “He is also, of course, a schoolteacher, busy raising up new cadres of Bolsheviks to bring about the revolution he desires.”
WE’LL SEE MORE OF THIS AS THE ROT FROM OUR CORRUPTED INSTITUTIONS CONTINUES TO STINK UP THE PLACE:
Open defiance of the old consensus.https://t.co/4hU3vJzaSi
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 25, 2023
We’ll see increasingly desperate and obvious efforts to suppress defiance, too, as Glenn has already noted.
A QUESTION I’VE NEVER ASKED: How Much Breadfruit is Good For You?
MY COLLEAGUE NICHOLAS NUGENT IS BLOGGING OVER AT VOLOKH: When Should the Law Regulate Content Moderation? I believe that one justification is when moderation-by-collusion among companies constitutes a conspiracy in restraint of trade, or a conspiracy to interfere with people’s civil rights, two things that I believe happened in the Parler case.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Biden advisers bristle at Gavin Newsom’s plan to debate DeSantis.
THE KERRY CONNECTION: The Latest Juicy Nugget in the Biden Bribery Scandal.
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