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Music Notes
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/music-notes-186
Published: September 7, 2024 23:13
Hey look at me, getting a music notes column out on time. I recently read Alex Harvey’s Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles. Focusing on Waits’ early years as a musician, up to the making of Swordfishtrombones, I thought it a very…
Should white nationalist libertarian plutocrats have major power in the federal government?
Published: September 7, 2024 21:19
If your answer to this question is “yes,” then by all means vote Trump: Former President Donald Trump’s plan to have Elon Musk lead a government efficiency commission would vault the world’s richest man to an unprecedented role: American oligarch. The…
The Ridiculousness of Modern High School Education
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-ridiculousness-of-modern-high-school-education
Published: September 7, 2024 19:59
I don’t get a whole lot of the very top students from high schools in my college classes because most of those kids are not going to mid-range public schools, even a small state flagship like mine. But you do need what the culture of high school does to…
Beyond Grievance Masculinity: Tim Walz and White Male Joy
Published: September 7, 2024 19:15
That’s the title of a very good longish read by Lisa M. Corrigan, a professor of communication and director of gender studies at the University of Arkansas. She details the ways Tim Walz undercuts the whining and hostile masculinity of Donald Trump and JD…
Fascists Endorse Fascist
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/fascists-endorse-fascist
Published: September 7, 2024 18:41
Of course…. Former President Trump on Friday accepted the endorsement of the nation’s largest police union and indicated he would pursue policies in a second term to bolster police immunity and encourage the use of controversial practices such as stop and…
The Problems of Large-Scale Organizing
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-problems-of-large-scale-organizing
Published: September 7, 2024 17:40
The historian Benjamin Fong has a good piece on the failures of unions to engage in successful large-unit organizing. Despite all the positive talk about unions these days, it hasn’t really made much of a difference in terms of revitalizing the labor…
Week 2 College Football Open Thread
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/week-2-college-football-open-thread
Published: September 7, 2024 14:46
As Tallahassee renders its garments and gnashes their teeth, happening to only the single most loathsome fan base in the country, as anyone who has dealt with FSUTwitter can attest, there are games involving good teams this week. Here’s the top 10, this…
A couple of fan notes
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/a-couple-of-fan-notes
Published: September 7, 2024 13:54
Michigan is playing Texas in concussion ball (Now Featuring More Than Company Scrip Comp for the Players So That’s Nice) in a couple of hours, and this is a big game for me because I’m sort of into Michigan football plus my l mom went to Texas so it’s…
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,699
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-1699
Published: September 7, 2024 11:00
This is the grave of Johnny Pacheco. Born in 1935 in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Pacheco grew up around music. His father Rafael was a bandleader who led Orquesta Santa Cecilia. a major Dominican big band of that era. When Johnny was 11, the family…
Partisan Dorks or Trash Methodology?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/partisan-dorks-or-trash-methodology
Published: September 7, 2024 01:01
So I very much get why people in the political game professionally want to shoot themselves over how polls are seen, in the sense that for most people, the quality of a poll is entirely dependent upon their personal political preferences. This has nothing…
Evicting the Tenets
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/evicting-the-tenets
Published: September 7, 2024 00:22
We have reached the point at which the idiots have ceased to have any use: A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that…
Dick Cheney endorses Harris and his daughter calls Trump and Vance “misogynistic pigs”
Published: September 6, 2024 22:09
I get that “actively opposing kleptocratic authoritarian white nationalism” should be low bar for anybody to leap over, but given that 99% of the current members of the Republican party has completely failed this particular test, I’m willing to hand out…
Why do all these respectable conservatives keep platforming Nazis and agreeing with them before, during and after the fact?
Published: September 6, 2024 19:27
Speaking of Bari Weiss and Nazi apologetics, let’s check in on another dim point of the Intellectual Dark Web superfund site: [About to throw out transparently idiotic 11-dimensional Hungry Hungry Hippos take] [Clears throat] “Occam’s razor suggests…”…
Judge delays Trump sentencing until after election
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/judge-delays-trump-sentencing-until-after-election
Published: September 6, 2024 17:36
TFG has gotten away with basically everything for his entire life so why stop now? The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal case in Manhattan postponed his sentencing until after Election Day, a significant victory for the former president as he…
Everything is Fine!
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/everything-is-fine-8
Published: September 6, 2024 16:03
I hate to tell people this, but everything humans to do destroy the ecosystem also will come back and destroy humans. In 2006, a deadly fungus started killing bat colonies across the United States. Now, an environmental economist has linked their loss to…
Friday Open Thread
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/friday-open-thread
Published: September 6, 2024 16:00
This is tragedy. Discuss amongst yourselves. The post Friday Open Thread appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.
Sanewashing
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/sanewashing
Published: September 6, 2024 14:38
One particularly damaging iteration of Shape of the Earth Views Differ reporting is the tendency to take a bunch of rambling, incoherent nonsense spewed by Trump and sanitize it until it sounds like some kind of actual policy proposal: this is exactly what…
The twisted path to Holocaust denial
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-twisted-path-to-holocaust-denial
Published: September 6, 2024 13:19
Cartoon from mainstream right wing magazine The Federalist Michelle Goldberg points out that Tucker Carlson platforming Holocaust denier/minimizer (a distinction without any real difference) Darryl Cooper is a practically inevitable consequence of getting…
Father of Apalachee High School mass killer arrested on murder charges
Published: September 6, 2024 02:48
As we’ve discussed before, the question of when parents should be held liable when their child commits a mass killing is a potentially difficult one. But if it’s true that the father in this case gave or allowed his son to have access to a semiautomatic…
Open thread: are you ready for some footbaw?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/open-thread-are-you-ready-for-some-footbaw
Published: September 6, 2024 00:15
Good opening night matchup! Interested parties can listen to our NFL podcasts here if you are so inclined. Feel free to discuss the game, Taylor Swift, things of that nature. The post Open thread: are you ready for some footbaw? appeared first on Lawyers,…
I really hope Joe Biden pardons Hunter after the election
Published: September 5, 2024 21:37
Normally, being a high SES connected guy is a big advantage in the world, and in particular in regard to the criminal justice system. But every now and then, things break badly precisely because the system decides it needs to make an example of someone…
Unionbusting in Green Energy Plants
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/unionbusting-in-green-energy-plants
Published: September 5, 2024 21:29
As I’ve said many times, any capitalist who refuses to allow unions into their plants doesn’t care about saving the planet. It’s just more rapacious profit. Simply put, if you don’t allow unions in the green energy plants, unions aren’t going to support…
Breaking good
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/breaking-good
Published: September 5, 2024 20:01
So about a year ago I started watching Breaking Bad. By this spring I had gotten about three episodes in to the fifth season, and then stopped because it was feeling tacked on, and I didn’t want to reprise my experience of watching the last season of The…
Imaginary audits: not just for Donald Trump anymore!
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/imaginary-audits-not-just-for-donald-trump-anymore
Published: September 5, 2024 19:22
“Fuck you, pay me!” — By Senator Ben Sasse Sultan of Smarm Ben Sasse responded to the devastating story about how his tenure at the University of Florida involved giving extremely lucrative sinecures to his cronies before he converted the position into a…
LGM Podcast: NFC Preview
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/lgm-podcast-nfc-preview-2
Published: September 5, 2024 18:03
Here’s the second half of our NFL preseason podcast, focusing on the NFC. Should be fun tonight with the NFL starting! Unfortunately, I have to finish an article before I can watch, so we will see, but Chiefs-Ravens, dang, that’s a heck of an opener! The…
What Happened to Montana?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/what-happened-to-montana-2
Published: September 5, 2024 16:21
As you may have heard, Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate for Senate in Montana, was caught on tape making grotesquely racist remarks about Native Americans. Tim Sheehy, the Republican Senate nominee in Montana whose race could flip the balance of the…
Checking in on the energy and cognitive fitness candidate
Published: September 5, 2024 02:47
It sure is a lucky break for Trump that purely by random coincidence the age and cognitive fitness of the candidates stopped being an important issue on July 21! Trump repeatedly forgets who he is running against: “I can’t imagine New Hampshire voting for…
Altoona Pizza????
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/altoona-pizza
Published: September 5, 2024 01:47
I thought I was fairly familiar with the atrocities of American cuisine, but I had missed the glory of Altoona pizza. So what you got here is a square crust (fine), shitty deli salami, tomato sauce, bell pepper (this seems to be a necessity for some…
Oregon’s Most Serious Problem in 1986
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/oregons-most-serious-problem-in-1986
Published: September 5, 2024 01:11
When I do research in newspapers, I find what I am looking for, but you also get distracted by all sorts of things. For example, I was looking in Oregon newspapers from 1986 yesterday and this came up. Given the political beliefs and work history of our…
And now, the dump
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/and-now-the-dump
Published: September 4, 2024 22:22
It appears that $6 billion is probably an excessive valuation for a company with no revenue and no prospect of earning any revenue: Shares of former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company have fallen so much that his onetime $6 billion stake is…
Hey, how’s the “Russia hoax” coming along?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/hey-hows-the-russia-hoax-coming-along
Published: September 4, 2024 20:33
Looks like the reason people like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnnson constantly sound like they’re on Putin’s payroll is . . . Apparently unwitting . . . a phrase that can cover a multitude of sins. You cannot hope to bribe or Twist The Putin…
LGM Podcast: 2024 AFC Preview
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/lgm-podcast-2024-afc-preview
Published: September 4, 2024 19:40
Erik, Rob and I recently had our annual NFL preview podcast. Part one covers the AFC — has the window closed for the Bills? Can anyone beat the Chiefs? Can the Ravens finally turn a regular season powerhouse into postseason success? How will year 1 of the…
Rituals of Childhood
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/rituals-of-childhood
Published: September 4, 2024 18:03
At least four people are believed to have been killed and approximately 30 more were injured in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, although it’s unclear how many of the injuries are from gunshot wounds, according to law enforcement…
Thomas Edsall surveys political scientists on the state of the presidential race
Published: September 4, 2024 13:39
The always interesting Thomas Edsall has an article (gift link) on the current state of the presidential race. I would summarize it as follows: (1) Harris is now in a far better position than Biden was in late July. For a number of reasons, Biden was very…
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,698
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-1697
Published: September 4, 2024 11:00
This is the grave of William Rehnquist. Huh, well here’s a person I do not like. There’s a lot to say, more than I have time for, so I will keep this relatively brief and then you all can talk about how the world was worse for this man’s life in comments.…
Dan Snyder fails again
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/dan-snyder-fails-again
Published: September 4, 2024 00:23
Looks like the efforts by Trump’s lickspittles to stop the forthcoming film about his relative youth as a racist NYC real estate grifter/spender of his dad’s money have not been successful: Talk about campaign season. The Trump movie will make it to U.S.…
Wanna bet on it?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/wanna-bet-on-it
Published: September 3, 2024 22:40
OK I’m putting down some heavy LoomCoin on this: Nate Silver will eventually blow all of his money on gambling, write a memoir about it, get a big advance (there’s a club and he’s sort of in it), then blow all that on gambling too. Curious about Andrew…
Sentinels
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/sentinels
Published: September 3, 2024 21:12
I have thoughts on the Air Force’s new ICBM… The Sentinel is a next-generation ICBM designed to replace the 450 existing Minuteman missiles that constitute the ground-based element of America’s nuclear deterrent. A solid-fueled, silo-housed missile, the…
Why do all these authoritarian-misogynist policy manifestoes keep getting endorsed by JD Vance?
Published: September 3, 2024 19:36
Here’s what Peter Thiel’s Uber coordinator was up to when Amy Chua and the New York Times editorial board was trying to sell him as a Reasonable, Thinking Person’s Conservative Who Is A Rust Belt Working Class Whisperer: Years before he became the…
Why do all these neo-Nazis keep showing up in prominent conservative circles?
Published: September 3, 2024 17:24
See if you can guess where this is going: Spoiler alert! Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson fawned over Darryl Cooper, whom he described as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” during a recent interview in which Cooper…
The failing Constitution
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-failing-constitution-3
Published: September 3, 2024 13:24
Here’s an interesting essay (gift link) on the (dis)enchantment of Americans with our Constitution. Originalism has gathered strength by tapping into this reverence — deploying the authority of the framers in order to pass off originalist interpretation as…
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,697
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-1698
Published: September 3, 2024 11:00
This is the grave of William Stanley. Born in 1858 in Brooklyn, Stanley grew up well off and ended up at Yale, where he graduated in 1881. He was a tinkerer as a kid, but actually intended on studying the law at first. He was into engineering and physics…
Music Notes
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/music-notes-185
Published: September 2, 2024 23:00
I am deeply ashamed that I dropped the ball on my music posts. A few things happened. First, I had to finish a book manuscript. That was 6 weeks right there in the middle of the summer. Second, these things were taking just too much of my time and energy…
Quit Pushing Every Kid into College
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/quit-pushing-every-kid-into-college
Published: September 2, 2024 21:27
I am glad to see an article about how the constant push of every kid into college is actually quite damaging for a lot of kids. I’d go farther and say that this is directly related to what happens in college, where then everyone is pushed into a specific…
The State of Unions
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-state-of-unions
Published: September 2, 2024 20:08
On Labor Day, we should look at the state of unions. Chris Bohner has a deep dive and despite the public support for unions, nothing has really changed. “We’re organizing like never before!” That’s what the AFL-CIO says, but is it accurate? While data is…
The Return of Burevestnik
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-return-of-burevestnik
Published: September 2, 2024 19:45
Decker Eveleth and Jeffrey Lewis have identified a launch site adjacent to a nuclear weapons storage site as possibly being for Russia’s Burevestnik nuclear cruise missile. Jonathan Landay wrote about it and quoted me, among others. I wrote about the…
The inalienable right to steal elections
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-inalienable-right-to-steal-elections
Published: September 2, 2024 19:08
In addition to providing many more examples of his lack of cognitive fitness, over the weekend Trump said that nobody has the right to interfere with his autogolpes: Trump: Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where…
The Absurdity of the 2024 Democratic Primary and Maybe of the Current Primary System in Total
Published: September 2, 2024 17:47
One of the least serious arguments pushed out there about Biden staying in the race is that “we had a primary and the people decided they wanted Joe Biden again.” A sizable number of LGM commenters love this line. This is patently unserious. First, the…
The Spectacular South Siders
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-spectacular-south-siders
Published: September 2, 2024 16:39
Doff of the cap for the performance art extravaganza which is the 2024 Chicago White Sox: The 1970 White Sox went 56-106, setting the mark with a loss on the last day of the season, Oct. 1, 1970. The 2024 team is much more efficient at losing. Now that the…
Trump claims public schools are performing transgender surgery on children without parental knowledge
Published: September 2, 2024 13:34
Bouie points out that: (1) Trump is making totally deranged claims. (2) Trump is also now incapable of speaking cogently in any sense on any topic for any length of time. (3) Trump has deteriorated markedly in regard to both of these behaviors quite…
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,696
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-1696
Published: September 2, 2024 11:00
This is the grave of James Warren. Born in 1726 in Plymouth, Massachusetts into what passed for the Puritan elite of the time. But even the elite were pretty much working on little farms. He went to Harvard beginning in 1742 and finished in 1745. He…
General strike in Israel
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/general-strike-in-israel
Published: September 2, 2024 02:43
In response to Hamas recently killing six hostages — hostages that could have been returned safely if not for Benjamin Netanyahu prioritizing the nearly indiscriminate bombing of civilians — there will be a major strike in Israel tomorrow: Much of Israel’s…
Starbursts Two: Peter Thiel Boogaloo
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/starbursts-two-peter-thiel-boogaloo
Published: September 1, 2024 22:36
It looks like Rich Lowry is getting the same tingly feeling that he did the last time a Republican candidate made a disastrous vice presidential pick: Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of the conservative National Review, told a bemused Chris Wallace in a…
Duo and Sunday Open Thread
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/duo-and-sunday-open-thread
Published: September 1, 2024 19:47
How are folks doing on their Duolingo? It seems as if everyone I know is trying to learn some language or another on Duo. I started with Korean two years ago (in preparation from my trip to Seoul), then started again with Ukrainian last year (in prep for…
Hotel Strike
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/hotel-strike
Published: September 1, 2024 18:44
If you are going to a professional conference in the near future, you need to make sure it is at a hotel where the workers aren’t striking because a lot of them now are and probably a lot more will be doing so in the near future. Thousands of hotel workers…
The 4-Day Week Comes to Japan. Maybe.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-4-day-week-comes-to-japan-maybe
Published: September 1, 2024 17:19
I recently discussed the toxic work culture of South Korea. Well, Japan is equally notorious as a nation with a toxic work culture. So the Japanese beginning to respond to the reality of the labor market instead of doubling down on a staid ideology about…
Incumbency in an Anti-Incumbent Age
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/incumbency-in-an-anti-incumbent-age
Published: September 1, 2024 16:19
One of the major issues in the late contretemps over Old Man Biden needing to step away for Harris is the idea of loyalty. Let’s face it, a lot of the strong feelings about him staying among many readers of this blog stem from the idea of loyalty from…
What Are You Doing To Get Out The Vote?
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/what-are-you-doing-to-get-out-the-vote
Published: September 1, 2024 15:36
What are you doing to Get Out The Vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz??? I’ll start: Probably not as much as I should. I’ve sent money and bought a tote bag that I will use to bag groceries. I write stuff here. But I haven’t engaged with the direct…
And I said to myself: This is the business we’ve chosen
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/and-i-said-to-myself-this-is-the-business-weve-chosen
Published: September 1, 2024 13:45
At some point this stuff just gets exhausting: CU buys $3.75M home for Boulder chancellor The CU Foundation closed on the home for $3.75 million, which is located adjacent to the University Hill neighborhood and less than a mile from campus. “The CU system…
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,695
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/erik-visits-an-american-grave-part-1695
Published: September 1, 2024 11:00
This is the grave of Marilyn Monroe. I don’t think we need a regular biography of one of the most famous women in American history and one that literally every reader of this site knows well, so let’s just discuss some of the issues with her life. First,…
An asshole, a female incubator, and a doughnut
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/an-asshole-a-female-incubator-and-a-doughnut
Published: September 1, 2024 02:22
A new romantic comedy: The man was out at a business establishment with his peers and associates, imbibing liquid refreshment and debating which comestibles were best to ingest. Then he saw the female. Even from across the room, he could see that it looked…
An opportunity. To what? To make money? Perhaps. To lose money? Perhaps. To indulge and learn about ourselves? Perhaps. They’re an opportunity.
Published: August 31, 2024 23:37
There are many funny details about Trump’s latest round of tacky NFTs. But my favorite is about the Tremendous Dinners you are promised with Trump if you buy 75 virtual cards at 99 bucks a pop (with virtually no resale value): The fine print, vis-a-vis…
Really makes you think
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/really-makes-you-think
Published: August 31, 2024 21:52
Best comment: “That under isn’t going to cash itself.” To be clear, Occam’s razor, Bayesian inference, and Meemaw’s bookie all agree it’s extremely unlikely that this particular play represents that kind of monkey business. But this is going to be my…
Wake up, new JD Vance misogyny and racism just dropped
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/wake-up-new-jd-vance-misogyny-and-racism-just-dropped
Published: August 31, 2024 19:25
It turns out that Peter Thiel’s kombucha brewer is a hateful creep: Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women “choose a path to misery” when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in…