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Continue reading Kenyan white giraffes killed by poachers in latest confirmation that humans suck
I’m seeing a lot of people whining about media overreaction, evidently believing that this is an overblown overreaction to a bad strain of flu. Well, I’ve read a lot of stuff and can do math and these takes, which the president himself has been floating, are dangerously ignorant. Dr. Drew Pinsky is not a legitimate health official.
As of March 8, the CDC had only administered 1,707 coronavirus tests, that low figure rationalized by the idea that containment is still possible — simply test and isolate only those who had traveled between China or had been exposed to someone verified to have contracted the virus. Continue reading At what point does not testing for a known pandemic amount to gross negligence?
Convicted Nxivm leader Keith Raniere filed a motion for a new trial today, saying that some of the witnesses against him in last year’s federal prosecution committed perjury during their testimony. Continue reading Keith Raniere asks for a new trial, claims witnesses lied about planning lawsuit
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… A week ago the ultra-conservative CPAC conference took place, the day after Trump called the novel coronavirus a “hoax.” One of the CPAC attendees evidently had the virus and came into contact with a number of elected officials, including Ted Cruz, Doug Collins, Matt Gaetz, and Paul Gosar, who are all self-quarantining. Gaetz was on a plane with Trump earlier today. Continue reading Elected officials self-quarantine after treating the coronavirus as a hoax
I’m going to try and not make this about gender, but it’s hard to explain the electorate’s rejection of Elizabeth Warren without at least conceding the part it played. Continue reading It’s hard to explain voter rejection of Elizabeth Warren without considering gender
I’m reluctant to dive into the election debate dumpster fire but here goes anyway. So that you’re aware of my bias, I think Elizabeth Warren would make the best, most effective president. But never mind that because that outcome appears very unrealistic unless she’s on the ticket as Vice President and succeeds to the job (actuarial tables suggest that isn’t crazy). And put aside policy preferences. Continue reading Biden v. Bernie: Your ‘electability’ reasoning is almost certainly flawed
On February 25, Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona tweeted that since February 15 his team had been observing a small object, now catalogued as 2020 CD3, to ascertain whether it was a natural satellite of the Earth. There is a lot of “space junk” orbiting the Earth by now, but almost all in low orbits which will spiral down, not up, with time; only rocket stages or other shed parts from interplanetary launches are going to be in high orbits. Continue reading That’s no moon: Earth’s temporary mini-satellites may help protect against disaster
Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective… So a Health and Human Services (the CDC’s parent agency) official raised a concern about that agency’s handling of the return of Americans returning from Wuhan China, specifically that those officials — all non-medical professionals — were ordered to to receive the evacuees without protective gear, ordered to enter quarantined areas where the evacuees were present, and then weren’t ever tested for the virus. One of those staff members stayed at a nearby hotel and left California on a commercial flight.
The Trump Campaign today sued the New York Times in New York state court for defamation over an opinion piece, which is kind of all you need to know if you already know that where the plaintiff is a political figure, defamation requires a showing of “actual malice” and factual falsity. Meaning that an opinion piece cannot, by definition, be defamatory, unless they contain factual assertions that otherwise meet all the other requisite criteria. Continue reading Trump files garbage defamation lawsuit against New York Times opinion piece |
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