It will reportedly be out on Friday, and cover a lot more than just FISA abuse.
As it happens, I’ll be in DC for the potential fireworks, at the Space Law Conference.
Our Moral Betters In The NBA
But I’m dubious about this: “The thing is, LeBron, we’ve come to expect more of you. You’re obviously an intelligent person, a compassionate person and a socially conscious person. At this point in your life and career, it’s part of your brand.”
I don’t have much experience with Mr. James, hating the sport that he plays as I do, but it is not at all obvious to me that he’s an intelligent person. I don’t think he’s getting the big bucks for his brain.
[Update a while later]
[Mid-morning update]
[Afternoon update]
Yes, Mr. James, all you had to say was that “America is a free country.” But you’re a dumb ass.
[Update a while later]
Treacher: Why should I care what he thinks about China, or anything?
The War In The Middle East
…remains undeclared.
We haven’t declared war on anyone in almost eight decades, but we’ve been in almost continual fights, and lost thousands of troops. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be a voting issue for Congress. As Stephen Green says, the main two terrible things we did after 911, were the authorization of military force, and the Patriot Act. And it seems that Westphalia is dead.
[Update a few minutes later]
An interesting take on what’s going on in Syria.
It will be ironic if the Kurds finally end up with a homeland after all this.
A Gold Asteroid
Will it make us rich?
Dennis Wingo responds:
Yes, it’s impossible to predict the effects of drops in the price of previously-rare commodities. Gold is a very useful industrial metal, and this would expand its usage.
Saying “Triggered”
No, New York Times, it will not turn your kid into a Nazi.
Space
You’re in the Army now.
The Continuing SLS Disaster
Work has restarted after a “corrective action” for Boeing.
[Update a few minutes later]
Man, the comments are (appropriately) brutal.
Beta O’Dourke’s Pluralism Failure
Let’s hope that the Democrats suffer at the polls over this. It’s totalitarianism, straight up.
Rednecks
How they saved Hollywood.
I don’t know how you can talk about this topic without discussing The Outlaw Josie Wales. Also, the term goes all they back to England, resulting from the red collars that Presbyterians wore.
Elizabeth Warren’s Pregnancy Story
#ProTip to those bereft of logic. It is possible, and not logically inconsistent, to believe both that some women get fired for being pregnant, and that Warren is making it up in her particular case.