The Hall of Fire

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating MGM Hotels for failing to secure customers' data. So MGM has sued the FTC's head, Lina Khan, for conflict of interest, because Khan herself stayed at an MGM hotel (and they failed to secure her data). If you steal from the police commissioner, the cops i...

The Daily Beast reports that the "legal document from Knight Specialty Insurance Company doesn't actually promise it will pay the money if the former president loses his $464 million bank fraud case on appeal. Instead, it says Trump will pay, negating the whole point of an insurance company gu...

Madison Cawthorn, the freshman Republican Congressman from North Carolina who lost a primary race in his bid for reelection, seems to have largely abandoned his job with more than three months left to serve in his term in office: "It is difficult to discern what Cawthorn has been doing for his...

Information about how the U.S. and Israel knew of the attack in advance. (Iran told Saudi Arabia and others, who told the U.S.)

A picture taken at almost the same time that Donald Trump was reported to have fallen asleep in court:

From Donald Trump's latest reply brief to the Supreme Court: President Ford pardoned President Nixon, but President Nixon faced charges for private conduct, not just official acts. The Legal Aftermath: Citizen Nixon and the Law , TIME (Aug. 19, 1974), [ link ] (investigation of Nixon included “subor...

Of the 96 jurors initially sworn, 50 have already been dismissed because they said they could not be fair and impartial.

One cannot help but wonder if he's on some sort of sedative (or something) to prevent outbursts?? Donald Trump is reported to have been more animated in the courtroom when the trial resumed after lunch. And I gather that one can officialy says that he is "on trial" now because jurors have...

Learned a new word today: zud . Sometimes spelled dzud . It's a Mongolian word referring to a "disaster in steppe, semi-desert and desert regions ... in which large numbers of livestock die, primarily due to starvation, being unable to graze due to particular severe climatic conditions. Various...

Jury selection in this trial begins today. This morning, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted this from the courtroom: "Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack." One cannot help but wonder if he's on some sort of sedative (or something...

Jury selection in this trial begins today. This morning, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted this from the courtroom:

"Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack."

Well that's interesting:



President Biden would not be as old as the movies' version of Captain America, though.

I appreciate Paul Farhi's point concerning the media's reluctance to publish the Hunter Biden laptop story a few weeks before the 2020 election: ask Dan Rather how it worked out in 2004 to rush to publish a story (about George W. Bush's National Guard service) that wasn't thoroughly sourced. (No one...

And apparently an Iranian envoy at the United Nations has said that they will consider the matter closed unless Israel retaliates. Here's an Iranian government tweet from yesterday about the attack: "The matter can be deemed concluded." https://twitter.com/Iran_UN/status/17792699930430220...

Here's an interesting Washington Post story I missed when it was published last year: " How Red-state Politics Are Shaving Years Off American Lives ." The subject is three adjacent counties in different states: Ashtabula Co. in Ohio, Erie Co. in Pennsylvania, and Chautauqua Co. in New York...

This seems significant:

Hobart and William Smith is my sister's alma mater so I am pretty familiar with it. While I understand the academic freedom argument, I don't think the administration had any real choice in the matter. Student safety trumps academic freedom. Small world! The son of a very close friend is a freshman...

Hobart & WIlliam Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York have removed a professor from the classroom for writing an essay that celebrated the Oct. 7th attacks. Even people criticizing the colleges for sidelining the professor allow that what she wrote was "bloodthirsty." Still, the standard...

The U.S. Federal Reserve (in-)famously has a "dual mandate": to effectuate both "maximum employment and price stability." Those two aims can be at odds with one another, and for decades, progressives have argued that the Fed was too focused on keeping interest rates low, i.e., pr...