Mama Kestrel

I remember the oil embargo in 1973, when OPEC first formed. On the west coast, gas was rationed. You could buy gas on even or odd numbered days based on your license plate number, and only get 10 gallons at once. Lines stretched blocks. I was in h.s.. Prices went from .29/gal to over $2.00/gal.

They should be ashamed of themselves. They fought back successfully a year ago. Why is the university administration turning craven now?

Wonderful!

Yes.

Because it indicates interest in a certain kind of epic science fiction or fantasy, would be my guess. It's a shortcut for where there might be mutual interest. They're geeks letting it be known that they'd like to meet other geeks.

Oracular pig. Hen Wen. Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain. Just saying.

Every time I think it can't get worse...it does. I have degrees in both history and law; you'd think I would know better.

Rushdie himself is not dangerous. It's he that would be endangered. He is a deeply polarizing figure, which is too bad. The level of security necessary for his safety at a college graduation is daunting to the university, and doing without that level of security unacceptable to him. So he canceled.

Miss Diva of Clan Underfoot, all 6 1/2 pounds of her. A tiny girl (about 3) downtown today, dancing a twirling for the pure joy of it. Feline Federation Wrestling between Diva and her littermate Ebony, which generally ends in bathing each other.

Heaven forfend there be a paper trail of a raging conflict of interest....

Has anyone else noticed that the most vocal outrage is aimed at trans women in female spaces? I am not dismissing the violence trans men receive in male spaces; I am noting it gets far less press (unless they're murdered.)

USAID was investigating Starlink. And now they've been shut down. Do you think there might be a connection?

Pronounced "doggy"?

They don't want to see it, and don't believe it when told. Or the bought the "necessary housecleaning" line the Traitor in Chief has been selling for years.

Rather like the presidential immunity ruling. Taney knew what result he wanted, and twisted and mangled the Constitution to get there.

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Could you get me a citation on that? 😜

I'm hoping the cure for lawyer brain is retirement. Otherwise I'm doomed. (Retired in 2005; never looked back.)

No disagreement. I meant only that the old EO was not the sole basis for challenge. I keep thinking of Andrew Jackson's response to the rulings in favor of the Cherokee: "They have made their ruling. Now let them enforce it."

The cruelty is the point.

It was codified. LBJ issued it while the Administrative Rules that interpret the statutes were being written.

The Civil Rights Act, the Equal Employment Opportunities Act, and the American with Disabilities Act are all still there. LBJ's EO set out in the requirements before the administrative rules could be enacted, but the Administrative Code has supercedes it anyway.

He's gonna try.

No lies detected. It's purely performative.

It only applies to children born after Feb 19, 2025. If it were made retroactive it would apply to me, too. I'm a retired attorney in my 60s who was born in Ohio.

No lie detected.

One of the plethora of Executive Orders issued says that there are 2 genders, based on reproductive cells at conception. What are they going to do - DNA testing for all fetuses or newborns? And what happens the first time female appearing baby test XY due to androgen insensitivity? Stupid & evil!

I figured it out and gave due credit on FB.

"We don't have a housing shortage, we have an affordability shortage." (May be inexact.) Umm...shortage of housing is what causes shortage of affordability. How does the woman propose to reduce the cost of housing? Failure to understand econ 101 + privilege + NIMBY.

I shall commit shameless conversion of your meme as soon as I figure out how!