When it comes to unexpected encounters with smallpox, I think we can all agree that “lab worker in protective gear encounters frozen vials at vaccine research facility and promptly reports it” is probably the best-case scenario.

Thanks for the link - it was indeed an interesting read!

From, the article, it looks like the prosecutors did argue that the defendants’ lawyers were deliberately striking black jurors, which would be illegal. This is known as a “Batson Challenge”: https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/batson-challenge/

Traditionally, when a large law firm such as Covington & Burling or Jones Walker works with a non-profit organization such as The Innocence Project, they perform the work “pro bono publico” (i.e., they do not charge for attorney time). It’s a way to burnish the firm’s image.

Of course. You can find lots of detail on the New Zealand Government’s website here:

The most obvious explanation, to me, is a fear that right-wing organizations will seize upon any gap in presidential immunity to wage unrelenting war on Democratic presidents through the court system. (For an example of how this might play out, take a look at “Judicial Watch” and their decades-long campaign against…

As an expat, this is driving me nuts too. My parents live in Australia and were scheduled to come visit in August 2020 to see the grandkids. They’re vaccinated. We’re vaccinated. They have credit with Qantas and are itching to fly. And now Morrison is saying he wants to keep the border closed into 2022?

I’m worried that, by focusing on the sharing of misinformation, Facebook is missing the big picture.

I take it that the i5-1135G7 is packing “Xe LP” graphics? Do we have any information on when Intel will be releasing chips with “Xe XPG” graphics, which is purportedly designed with gaming in mind?

That seems plausible, even likely.

Especially since a lot of copies have probably been bought as Christmas presents, and so the intended recipients won’t even receive them by the day the window closes...

I often find myself overwhelmed with the number of challenges we are facing as a society and how hard it is to make progress on them. We vote, we march, we make cogent, good faith arguments, and it just doesn’t seem to work.

I hear you. Every time I see a picture of Mr. Boseman, my first reaction is to click on it to find out what he’s working on currently, and then a split-second later my mind catches up and reminds me that he’s no longer with us.

Unfortunately, “this asshole is lying and I have the receipts to prove it” is generally one of the more expensive ways to defend a lawsuit, even if you have conclusive video evidence at hand. There’s a good chance this will end in a confidential settlement to save on legal fees.

True, in the absence of firearms. Give this type of man a gun, however, and he’ll happily seek out a confrontation with teenagers of color because they’re thumping hip-hop.

I saw On the Record recently, and found it extremely compelling and well-crafted. I highly recommend it.

Why has California cherry picked Lyft & Uber to force them to include their gig workers as employees and not gone after the other Silicon Valley Mega Corporations?

What am I missing here?

It’s like a Rorschach test for racial consciousness.

Records show he beat his enslaved workers, including doling out a brutal public whipping to a woman he felt had been “putting on airs.” And when any of them ran away, he pursued them and put them in chains when they were recovered. In an 1804 newspaper advertisement for a 30-year-old runaway named Tom, he offered an…

Such chunky bezels! What is this, a 2008 MacBook Air?