An Appalling Lack of Rights: From Inalienable, to meritorious, to “Yeah, but…”
The ideal of “inalienable rights” has too often been changed to “meritorious rights” by flawed people adding “they have rights, but…”
Monthly Archive: June 2020
From the Daily Mail: Deadliest city in America plans to disband its entire police force and fire 270 cops to deal with budget crunch
From the Daily Mail: The deadliest city in America is disbanding its entire police force and firing 270 cops in an effort to deal with a massive budget crunch. … The police union says...
Trouble in Lake Wobegon
Walking around made you wonder if this was Minneapolis or some war-torn city on the other side of the world.
The Time Mike Took Me To The Gathering Of The Juggalos
Vice President Michael Pence has musical tastes for which the adjective eclectic is an understatement, and led us down some strange, old town roads.
From Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago Police Board hearing officer, law partner wife found dead under ‘suspicious circumstances’ in Oak Park: police
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Oak Park police say they are investigating “suspicious circumstances” after two attorneys — including one who served as a hearing officer in several high-profile Chicago police misconduct cases — were...
Independent Autopsy Rules George Floyd’s Death a Homicide
The preliminary report: death was “caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain”.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Fire, Fury, and Frustration Edition
Every time we do this, folks will insist “This is the moment…” that everything is going to be different. God I hope it is. I pray it is. I doubt it is.
SpaceX Launches America
There is something primal, almost visceral about a rocket launch. It’s unlike anything else in the human experience.
