Category: Rant
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Keep Your Friends Close
There are people who blame their actions on “The ’tism’. I had not heard this term until recently. My oldest son is “on the spectrum.” He barely functions, not from emotional out bursts, but because he just isn’t mature enough. My youngest son is also “on the spectrum”, he is high function, going to collage,…
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The Rabbit Hole of Legal Speak
The district courts have been attacking the Trump administration wherever possible. Many have overstepped their authority to intrude on the Article II executive. A judge in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts decided that he was a final arbitrator of United States foreign policy. To that end, he issued a preliminary…
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The Red Cloak Is Not Cosplay But a Fashion Freudian Slip
The title is from Miguel. I’ve written about “Black Fatigue”, a physiological condition of being done with “that” shit. It is that entire situation where I have gone from a person who doesn’t see skin color to somebody that treats it as a threat indicator, every time. I’m old, I’m tired of this game. I’m…
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SHTF (guest post)
Rcd this via internet comm sx Today from a very competent and reliable source today, 13 June 2025 Ok, ladles and jellyspoons, this announcement will be long and unpopular. I’m sending it out to a couple of groups that I’m affiliated with, some family, and a handful of my closest friends. Everyone gets the same thing.…
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How To Lie
Ms. Google will try to get me to read “news” from different sources. Yesterday, she showed me one of many articles claiming that the Trump administration is reacting differently to the riots in LA than they did to the “riot” on January 6th. Paraphrasing Mr. Dunn, “Orange man bad. He pardoned those evil J6ers that…
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SCOTUS Follow Up
Yesterday’s article was a surprise to me. I started the post with one mindset, and ended in a different place. Occasionally, it helps to talk out your issues. It started with my statement, Snope should have been GVRed. Why? Because the Supreme Court has already done a gun ban case. It is a slam dunk,…
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SCOTUS, a rant
During the term, the Supreme Court has multiple conferences. The Friday conference is when they decide which cases will be granted cert, which will be denied, and other issues relating to cases, outside of opinions. On the following Monday, they publish their order list. This is a list of all the cases they have an…
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Don’t Steal Their Failures
I was in 2nd grade when I decided I was going to make a table and chairs. I had watched my grandfather make things. It couldn’t be that hard. With my mother and grandparents providing the material, I made a table and chair. It was a success. Was it sturdy enough for an adult to…
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Math Is Hard
My oldest son is on the spectrum. He has a job but does not have a license. He still lives with his mother, my ex-wife. When he was in middle school, I attended an IEP (individual education plan). This is where we lay out what accommodations he needs and how best to get him educated.…
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This Nation’s Historical Tradition of …
Trump v. Wilcox on application for stay was granted. It was a 6-3 opinion. The usual suspects were on the wrong side of history, again. Justice Kagan wrote the dissent. For 90 years, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 (1935), has stood as a precedent of this Court. And not just any…