Hearing that the Washington DC government (who wrote and passed the anti-SLAPP law) is going to file an amicus brief on our behalf next week, to accompany those from the news organizations and the ACLU.
Presumably, as with the others, it will not address the merits of the underlying case, but only our right to appeal, in a speedy manner.
Shockingly, the EPA is doing something sensible. They really need to take the stupid law off the books entirely, though.
Detecting photons without changing their quantum state.
A large number of media organizations, as well as the ACLU, have filed amicus briefs supporting our right to a speedy appeal in the mistaken denial of our motions to dismiss the suit against me, Mark Steyn, CEI and National Review. Note that they are not expressing opinions on the underlying merits of the suit, but simply preventing the DC anti-SLAPP law from being undermined.
[Update Friday morning]
More thoughts from Mark Steyn.
[Bumped]
I’ve always regretted not being bi-lingual. I took Latin in high school, which has been enormously beneficial, but I never spoke it, and I’m really only monolingual. That’s sort of a natural advantage that kids of immigrants have. I don’t know if my half-Iraqi nephew and niece are fluent (they probably just know some words), but I’m sure they’re getting some benefit from hanging out with their mother’s family.
I’d also note, on the education bubble front, that eliminating the requirement of a language for a college degree was an early sign of it.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. The brain remains the biggest mystery, I think.
This is an interesting change, and not one good for the warm mongers. It points out another reason that much of climate science is junk science. It’s not reproducible.
Some thoughts on why so many were surprised about the notion that ObamaCare might be unconstitutional.
I think the same insularity is responsible for much of the (non-existent) “consensus” in climate science.
Meanwhile, people obsess about carbon on the basis of junk science.
Julia Ioffe is righteously pissed off:
At this writing, I have been coughing for 72 days. Not on and off coughing, but continuously, every day and every night, for two and a half months. And not just coughing, but whooping: doubled over, body clenched, sucking violently for air, my face reddening and my eyes watering. Sometimes, I cough so hard, I vomit. Other times, I pee myself. Both of these symptoms have become blessedly less frequent, and I have yet to break a rib coughing—also a common side effect. Nor do I still have the fatigue that felled me, often, at my desk and made me sleep for 16 hours a night on the weekends. Now I rarely choke on things like water, though it turns out laughing, which I do a lot of, is an easy trigger for a violent, paralyzing cough that doctors refer to not as a cough, but a paroxysm.
Somehow, I doubt that most of these people are Republicans.