A few topics that may be of interest:
- President Obama Presents Medal Of Honor To Navy SEAL Hero — Just to lead off with something positive, a news item in which the word “honor” can be used without irony.
- Iranian Moderates Make Big Gains In Parliamentary Elections — Whatever is in the water over there, we could use some of that in this country.
- Clarence Thomas asks first questions in 10 years — That’s a pretty long silence.
- Kelvin Washington charged with felony DUI — Yep, that Kelvin Washington, the Richland County councilman.
At the risk of getting PETA after me for whipping a dead horse on the blog, here’s another summary of Apple’s fight with the FBI: http://tidbits.com/e/16295.
I think it’s an interesting legal question. Both sides have some good points. For the government’s side, I like this point from U.S. vs. New York Telephone Co.:
But I think I like the rebuttal from the dissent better:
Since I don’t understand either quote, I’ll go with the first one. I endorse it wholeheartedly, “not faintly and with lagging steps…,” because the second one has no good bits such as that…
Also, it’s shorter.
The former does have more of a rhetorical flourish about it.
For Washington, bring in Donnie Myers as a guest prosecutor.
The Iranian election ballots were severely pruned of moderates in the run-up to the election. Nine moderate parties estimated that only 1 percent of the 3,000 reformist candidates who registered were permitted to run. Among those rejected were three dozen current members of parliament.
So don’t hold your breath: the moderates allowed on the ballot were likely not as moderate as the moderates whose names were scratched.
I tweeted about the Medal of Honor recipient. He’s a legit bad-ass. I like the part in the official report where he’s keeping a bad guy at bay with one hand, while adjusting his night vision goggles with the other.
Dude was literally fighting the bad guy with one hand. A well-deserved award.
Hooyah!
Is Kelvin Washington going to just…keep serving on council?
It’s like bizzaro Office Space where instead of Peter’s “I’m just not gonna go anymore” mantra, Mr. Washington is going with “I”m just gonna keep showing up no matter what.”
We live in a time when people feel no guilt. Guilt used to be a bigger deal, I think. Nowadays, not so much.
Hey, did you see that his mother-in-law was featured in The Washington Post portrayed as the prototypical black Hillary supporter?
By the way, a footnote.
Doug or somebody challenged me the other day with having never even considered an endorsement of Libertarian candidate. I think I mentioned that I HAD, but didn’t get into details.
The Libertarian in question was a young woman (name long forgotten) who was running against Bernice. Our point wasn’t that we thought the young woman was particularly qualified — she was pretty clueless, if I recall — but as a protest against the inevitable, automatic re-election of Ms. Scott. Basically, we were saying, we have such a problem with this incumbent that we’ll endorse this totally unqualified Libertarian rather than her.
And it wasn’t just about her, either. We were favoring dumping ALL of the incumbents on Richland County Council that year (Doug would have loved that) because they were just so dysfunctional.
Needless to say, she survived the horror of our disapproval…
Oh, Bryan, guilt still is very important. Don’t you feel it every day when you look in the mirror? How dare you be you with all your privilege!
He may have to phone it in… from North Broad River Road.
He’s a man of his convictions, the more the merrier… As long as the bail money holds out.
He could campaign as a DUI promother and his district would still vote for him.
Ha, promoter.
Brad has no edit button.
^^^^^ Convictions! Okay, that’s funny, I don’t care who you are. I think we have a threadwinner.