Fuck Politics!

 I used my VBM ballot, late last week, but deposited it in a drop box. Because the USPS is sus.   I checked with the county clerk on line, and it has been accepted.  So I have noting to do about this election . . .  unless I volunteer to do something on election day, save avoid the fucking ads.

So here.  This.

Point Well Made

 We had the disgusting news about emotionally and likely biochemically unwell Sec of Defense wanting to do this, last week, to a not white man. By way of a firing squad instead of rope and tree.  But a lynching is a lynching no matter the method of killing.

 And we start this week with ICE raiding the home of a Black Democratic Congresswoman.

And so many mother fucking Republicans want to believe Jim Crow is a relic of the past?

Even if that were the case, and it isn't.  It's at best the too near past.  But Ok.  It's not as prevalent as it was 100 years ago.

It's still part of life in America.  Anyone who disagrees can just choke on their own tongue, for all I care.

The Owl Being Dishonest, By Omission.

 Not spreading lies but being dishonest by omission.  To explain.  She was blogging about an article about the climate change case before SCOTUS.  

Her remarks about a quote in the article that comes from a full on CHUD. Right Wing lunatic.  Teaches at Scalia Law School.  Went to Dartmouth.  And the quote isn't even a reply to a reporter's question, but from some webinar he gave sometime ago.  I'll do a copy paste of the text, but the image is how it looks right now.  Things on the web are often fluid:

"ADDED: The NYT quotes lawprof Todd J. Zywicki: "What this case is about is a bunch of one-percenter hippies in Boulder County who want to tell the rest of us how we have to live."   

At least she gave her viewers a guest link.  Here is the fuller context:

"The companies and their supporters argue that lawsuits like Boulder’s are an attempt to regulate the fossil fuel industry via litigation instead of through laws passed by Congress. As Todd J. Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, put it in a recent webinar: “What this case is about is a bunch of one-percenter hippies in Boulder County who want to tell the rest of us how we have to live.”

Context matters.  I am not going to accuse the Owl of deliberately out of bias hiding the context, and blatantly biased POV of the law prof.  But hey.  Properly lumping in professor CHUD with the other anti environment forces of evil, is different than letting it look like it's some random, disinterested legal expert.

While I am giving notes.  The NYT didn't do a thorough enough job identifying the CHUD.  He's not exactly a well known name even among members of the bar.  Even if it was a legal luminary like Tribe.  You still should identify him beyond where he works.  He does have a rep.  Don't assume all readers know it.

So yeah.  It's not personal for me.  I see bullshit.  I call bullshit.