So, what’d I miss?
Aloha, everyone! I’m just coming up for air after having spent a two-week vacation on the East coast, where I spent time in Manhattan, Connecticut and the Berkshires. In each place I stayed, there...
Tod Kelly
/// August 1, 2012
Aloha, everyone! I’m just coming up for air after having spent a two-week vacation on the East coast, where I spent time in Manhattan, Connecticut and the Berkshires. In each place I stayed, there...
Mike Dwyer
/// August 1, 2012
Immediately after the Aurora, Colorado shootings there was a pre-emptive outcry from the pro-gun crowd which rushed to put the shooting in perspective. The League hosted some of these posts and I was just as...
Mark of New Jersey
/// August 1, 2012
I fail to see how this is anything but a common-sense, uncontroversial, obvious, and good idea that might actually help a lot of people. Which of course means that we can expect Congress to...
Burt Likko
/// August 1, 2012
A young woman from the PRC named Wu Minxia was one of two teammates to win the gold medal in synchronized diving at the 2012 Olympics yesterday. Her well-earned celebration was spoiled, though…
Elias Isquith
/// August 1, 2012
As a few rather clever journalists (Jonathan Chait and Greg Sargent come immediately to mind) have long foretold, the President’s reelection campaign has begun “Phase II” of its anti-Romney strategy. Phase I was to...
Kyle Cupp
/// August 1, 2012
Zombie survival guides are a blood-stained dime a dozen, but won’t somebody please think of the zombies? It’s a hard “life,” full of unending hunger, long monotonous stretches of boredom, a homogenous diet, and...
Jason Kuznicki
/// August 1, 2012
Throughout August, I’m guestblogging at Radley Balko’s site, The Agitator. Radley is among the most effective libertarian advocates around, and I’m honored to stand in while he writes a much-needed book. My first post...
Nob Akimoto
/// August 1, 2012
So I believe brother Pat made the call out a few months ago about BACON… Well I was told today by a friend who works at CERN that he witnessed said BACON group inside...
Sam Wilkinson
/// August 1, 2012
There is such a thing as hope. So suggested the scholar
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
Comment →Drinking Cheap Vodka Will Kill You: A Twitter Parable
January 15, 2021
Not An Escalation of Trumpism, An Acceleration of Consequences
January 15, 2021
January 14, 2021
It’s Not Just About A Speech: Impeachment and President Trump
January 13, 2021
What, exactly, is a $2000 check?
January 15, 2021
Ordinary Times’ Andrew Donaldson on Consumer Choice Radio
January 15, 2021
January 15, 2021
Drinking Cheap Vodka Will Kill You: A Twitter Parable
January 15, 2021
Not An Escalation of Trumpism, An Acceleration of Consequences
January 15, 2021
Weekend Plans Post: Hey Rocky, Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out Of My Hat
January 14, 2021
January 6th: A Layman’s Post About Group Behavior
January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021
It’s Not Just About A Speech: Impeachment and President Trump
January 13, 2021
Them’s Fightin’ Words: The First Amendment and Incitement
January 11, 2021
January 6th: A Layman’s Post About Group Behavior
January 14, 2021
Impeachment, President Trump, and Evidence That Demands a Verdict
January 12, 2021