Among a torrent of Supreme Court decisions today came one involving a picture book. Well, that’s a little reductive, but also not really. The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, centered on if a school had to give parents an opportunity to protect their children from such dangerous things as picture books involving LGBT+ themes on the off chance it inhibited the parents’ rights to practice their religion. Without getting too far into the weeds with regards to the facts of the case, the case involved several families in Montgomery County, Maryland, who argued that the local schools adding...
Continue reading...Energy blogging
We’re currently living through two trends that are quickly converging with force. First, the electrification of the energy system: a long-running focus of environmentalists, who know that there is no way to combat climate change without changing things that run on fossil fuels to work off the electric grid. Sure, the electric grid currently is pretty dirty, but it’s long been far cleaner than burning straight fossil fuels, and the electric grid has the capability to get cleaner. So, we have things like cars, stoves, hot water heaters, furnaces, etc., joining the electric grid in massive numbers....
Continue reading...Thank you, Thank you, and Childcare
I remember when Mike Tyson was set to take on Evander Holyfield, when the first iphone was advertised, and when the Era tour tickets were scheduled to go on sale. So, I’m not going to pretend like my return to the blog-o-sphere is not soaked with anticipation. What’s he been up to? Has he written under a different name? What has he been drinking? The answer is making charts, no, and check out this beer-score chart. Here is the science to back it up: But what I would like to discuss today is childcare. Other countries do it...
Continue reading...Alabama candidate for governor McFeeters gets an owie
Ken McFeeters (maybe should stick to his McFeeters from now on) had a little mishap with a dirt bike. Okay, you see, he’s a guy who ran for the U.S. House and I guess lost, and I don’t care enough to look up whatever the hell else he has done, but he is currently running for governor of Alabama in the Republican primary against Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Stupidest Senator Who Has Ever Lived). Anyways, he decided to try a stunt where he would do a sweet jump (wheelie) with his dirt bike and call out Tuberville for...
Continue reading...On judges being around for a long time
Finally, some good news: A federal judge in Boston said Monday the termination of National Institutes of Health grants for research on diversity-related topics by the Trump administration was “void and illegal” and accused the government of discriminating against racial minorities and LGBTQ people. What he wrote was especially good: “This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” said Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan. “Any discrimination by our government is so wrong that it requires the court to enjoin it and at an appropriate time, I’m going to do it.” Referring to...
Continue reading...Father’s Day
Father’s Day is a weird day for me. I never knew my own father; I knew his name and saw some pictures, but I never met him and I’m not sure he ever knew I existed, except as a pregnancy test result and ensuing paternity suit. So, I never really experienced Father’s Day as a kid, except as a nod to my grandfather, who wasn’t my real grandfather, since my real grandfather died a decade before I was born and my grandfather as a guy my grandmother married after. I mean, he was my real grandfather in...
Continue reading...That’s top swearing
Man it is so hard to think about something to write about and find the motivation to actually write anything when everything everywhere is so terrifying. They flooded the zone with so much shit that there’s shit everywhere, all over, just pouring down, spraying up, getting deep into our joints, our hairs, between our fingers even. Shit all over. So like every terrible blogger I guess I decided to just type out a stream of consciousness just hoping that it would lead to a point somewhere. Maybe it will? I don’t know. Back in the TKTKs, when...
Continue reading...The answer—as always—is more ads
I’m sitting here watching the Gotham FC-Kansas City Current match on CBS. KC really came out early and smashed Gotham with two goals in the first 13′, so it’s not that interesting of a match at this point**. It’s nice that NWSL matches are being aired on broadcast television. However, CBS (and some other broadcasters but this post is about CBS) has started placing ads during the game. Sure, it’s usually during short breaks like substitutions or injuries, but they did cut to a commercial when there was no break, but I assume the producers had expected...
Continue reading...Wake up in the morning feeling like [REDACTED]
WSJ reports that President Trump is going to give TikTok another extension to get their shit together make a effort to be legal: President Trump is planning to give TikTok another lifeline. With a mid-June deadline approaching and trade talks with China in limbo, Trump is expected to sign an executive order staving off enforcement of a law banning or forcing the sale of the app, according to people familiar with his plan. It would be the third extension since Trump took office in January. The current one expires June 19. Just a note that this, once...
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