Wow. A long form piece of internet journalism from a cutting edge outlet that’s discovered a downside to the post-advent age of cutting edge internet technology. In other news: a warming fire could burn your house down- organizers planning protest march on Washington to demand fire be banned.

It wasn’t deregulation- it was failure by government in the few areas they retained regulatory authority. Presidents of both parties are to blame but the original sin was Clinton: Exxon/Mobile, WorldCom/MCI, NYNET/Verizon. But when it comes to airlines, Obama’s Transportation/FTC/DOJ-Antitrust is the prime offender…

Michigan case law currently sets a low bar for tainted juries- not just change of venue is at stake but also the outright ability for the state to fairly prosecute (there’s a deputy somewhere whose conviction was voided because too many people in official capacity spoke out).

Oh you poor child. I was at an event with Sheldon Whitehouse and Patrick Kennedy the day after the ‘keep your doctor’ comment was made: the incredulity in their eyes and faces told everyone in the room that Obama was either telling a HUGE whooper of a fish tale OR (as one of them privately suggested- I’ll let you…

Certainly there’s more of it- on a daily basis- from Trump but the die of every President’s administration is cast by his predecessor. Obama was never pilloried for his misstatements by anyone outside of the usual alt-right/hard-right suspects. The man promised everyone would keep their doctor- HHS ceased counting…

Ummm really?

It doesn’t matter whether approaching Congress was the right thing to do: he locked himself into an obligation- a binary set solution- when he opened his goddamn mouth.

Which one. The one he made to the foreign press at the G20, the DC media in the Rose Garden or to Charlie Rose where he declared, without reservation or qualification, that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a ‘red line’. After which he dispatched his NSC Advisor, UN Ambassador and Sec of State to reiterate…

And if he really wanted to punish Syria and Assad for using chemical weapons, he shouldn’t have told Putin, who took that information straight to Assad and we ended up bombing an empty airbase.

His own NSC finding said he didn’t have to. He only did that because he’d already established a precedent with Libya. Moreover there’s an Executive Order that goes back 3 decades that states the use of WMD by ANY ACTOR (state or otherwise) makes that actor a clear and present danger to the US (allowing the President…

No, what’s depressing is that it took Donald Fucking Trump to make good on Barack Obama’s promise that chemical weapons were a ‘red line’ that , when crossed, would result in direct repercussion- not a couple hundred SOC ghouls keeping Kurds and Turks apart. The ONLY response to the use of WMD- by anyone- is an…

Ordinarily I’d agree but if they’re scholarship students with morals clauses and/or they used their university occupation/status as a means to obtain income not sanctioned or approved by the school, then the school has a right to protect its reputation. Just as obvious as the ‘no sex for $1500' is a fallacy so to is…

Yup. And as in our family it’s usually pathology your born with and can’t really be fixed surgically until the (extremely high) risks are outweighed by the benefits- meaning you have to wait for/until (if ever) it symptomatically becomes acute (old age or lots of accumulated blows to the head). Killed my dad; forced…

Hydrocephalus/swelling in subarachnoid space due to arteriovenous malformation/concussive damage? That would have him conscious, up and about but with a distinct sense that things are not quite right. The danger is that external fluid pressure can cause the malformation to rupture without warning (almost the inverse…

Michigan has some very broad protections of defendants in case law on pretrial publicity (Nevers, 1997; which involves a civil/state employee and the actions of his state employers). What’s more, the pervasiveness of coverage in the internet-era has yet to be fully incorporated into most state’s case law- and this is…

Sounds like Donald Trump has a potential nominee for the President’s Council on (Mental) Fitness.

I have no illusions that progressives- especially the true believers- are at their core a merciless, callow and scruple-less bunch (25 years ago I was with the UNESCO team at Angkor Wat). I heard enough in six weeks to last me a lifetime and conclude all humanity were rat-puckers at heart.

Seems to have worked well for post WWII Britain, France, US, Japan, Germany, post-civil war US and GB.... Progressive ideals (of the respective era) always advance with far greater ease in the aftermath of major conflict. Acquiescence in the avoidance of conflict only inflates the level of carnage that eventually…

Everyday the man is pushing us closer to civil war. If we get the bloodletting that levels the playing field that this country so richly and desperately needs and deserves..., then hell yes.