Heh,
John Kerry said that I if you didn't study or were stupid, you would get stuck in Iraq. Today, John Kerry is stuck in Iraq. #tcot
— Ross (@indyrallen) August 13, 2014
A Federally Required Presumption Of Guilt
The latest anti-rights insanity coming from the Obama administration. It’s becoming child abuse to send a kid to public schools, or a son to college.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“If your boyfriend likes the First Amendment, be careful!”
This is how fascists think.
[Update a minute or so later]
“Law enforcement must take the lead in campus sexual assault cases.”
What a concept.
[Update another minute or so later]
“Illegals [immigrants] at the border have more rights than college students accused of rape.”
[Late-morning update]
No, one in five women on campus have not been raped.
“All This ‘Caliphate’ Talk”
“…is a delusion.”
The country’s in the very best of hands.
Transparency
Amazingly, a frequent commenter actually posted this (presumably with a straight face):
Obama set a standard for his administration that no other president has even tried to meet, and fell short of it, while still offering more transparency than any previous administration.
Josh Earnest (I still can’t believe that hired someone with that name for the job of presidential spokesman) repeated it.
But really, as Glenn notes, picking the biggest whopper of the Obama era is a tough task. I guess they’re operating on Goebbels’ Big Lie theory.
The Job Crisis
Unlike Clinton’s lies in 1992, this really is the worst economy since the Depression. And for many of the same reasons — government meddling in it.
Appearing Smart In Meetings
I will confess that I have done many of these things. Though I’m also often the quiet engineer who eventually speaks up.
Thought I actually do know what “Will this scale?” means. I often ask it, seriously. No one at NASA seems to understand it, though.
Appendage Radiators
I often sleep with one foot uncovered, and have for decades. Sometimes an arm or two as well. It seems pretty obvious to me that it will help keep your cool, so to speak.
Mann Suit Update
I didn’t mention it last week, because I’ve been busy dealing with life, but both we and National Review submitted our brief in the case to the DC Court of Appeals last Monday. I’m not sure if the CEI brief has been discussed anywhere, but here’s a discussion of National Review’s. We requested that the lower-court ruling to refuse dismissal be overturned and the case dismissed (implicitly) with prejudice. That means that if the appeals court agrees, we can go after Mann for legal costs.
Anyway, the reason I mention it now is that Alliance Defending Freedom has filed an amicus brief today on our behalf. I’ve got the filing, but haven’t seen any links to it yet. We also have one from Reason, Cato, Goldwater Institute, and the Individual Rights Foundation.
[Late evening update]
OK, we’ve got a couple more. One is from Newsmax Media, Inc., Free Beacon,LLC, The Foundation for Cultural Review, The Daily Caller, LLC, PJ Media, LLC, and The Electronic Frontier Foundation. The other is from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and twenty six other media organization, which I won’t list here.
Also, as with the last time, the District of Columbia has filed an amicus on our behalf to defend its anti-SLAPP law.
I’m guessing that a lot more media organizations are filing this time because they they were shocked at the ruling the last time, and wanted to make their views clear to the appellate court.
[Wednesday-morning update]
CEI has links to all the legal filings in the case to date, including Monday’s amici.
Obama’s Incoherence
Yes, “mixed messages” puts it far too kindly.
Eating Out Alone
Are you ashamed to do it?
It seems like a strange question to me. I don’t like eating out alone, but not because I think there’s any shame in it. I don’t like eating out, period. It’s expensive, it’s hard to eat healthy, and I don’t like people serving me. The only time I eat out alone is when I’m traveling alone. Eating out is something that I tolerate at best, not enjoy, unless I’m with good company, and then I’d still prefer to be eating a meal at home with them.