The Hall of Fire

Didn't that come out in 1978? Yes, but in 1966, John Hurt played Richard Rich in the film version of A Man for All Seasons . RIch, who would rise to become Lord Chancellor a dozen years later, in 1535 gave the false testimony against Sir Thomas More that led to More's execution for treason. In the ...

CBS reports : "Brazil Supreme Court investigating Elon Musk over obstruction, disinformation on X". More on this story here . Apparently Michael Shellenberger, the independent "Twitter files" reporter whose claims (which were then shared by Elon Musk) led to the investigation, h...

The U.S. is going to announce sanctions (per Axios) against the "Netzah Yehuda" battalion of the Israeli Defense Force. This battalion is said to have violated Palestinian rights in the West Bank.

But in the end, it does More no good, because he is executed after a colleague (played by Aragorn in the 1966 movie!) gives false testimony in exchange for whales. Wait - what?? :scratch: Viggo was 8 years old in 1966! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOJoCuDWQAEif8u.jpg:large He had to be replaced by M...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, explains how she can support President Biden in the 2024 election in spite of strong differences with Biden on policy, notably as regards the U.S. support for Israel during the war with Hamas. She says that Donald Trump "seeks to dismantle Am...

Apparently, a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse shortly after jury selection ended. It would be premature to say what his motivation was. Reportedly, he was still alive when he was taken away in an ambulance. CNN was airing live outside as it happened. The two-minute video at this link...

This made me laugh out loud. ... Needless to say, writing that the defendant "actually is the devil" is in fact good cause to dismiss a juror. There's a pretty good play (and film) whose protagonist argues to the contrary: William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law...

ABC reports that Israel has struck a military supply depot in Iran near the city of Isfahan.

If President Biden's Uncle Bosey was eaten, it was likelier to have been by sharks than by cannibals, although the latter possibility can't be completely ruled out.

Kerry Kennedy, a human rights activist who is the younger sister of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., today endorsed President Biden's reelection.

In this, she was joined by another 14 members of the Kennedy family.

Seems about right:

Republican Congressman Jake LaTurner of Kansas, aged 36 and currently in his second term, announced today that he will not run for reelection this year.

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:07 am Yes, he was referring to Matt Gaetz.

Did someone say Matt Gaetz?



(Edited to note that V got there two minutes before me!)

Reporters often seem to lack a sense of balance and common sense. Agreed. Just because they have the First Amendment right to report on what potential jurors say about themselves in open court doesn't mean they should do so. Although in some cases , it may be that the dissemination of information a...

And reporters are not happy about that: "anything said in open court is fair game." In which case, maybe Judge Merchan should close the court during jury selection? If a deranged Trump supporter identifies and murders a juror using facts supplied by a reporter, can the victim's family sue ...

I see that Judge Merchan today asked the press to, essentially, stop doxing jurors.

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:47 pm Well, we are going backwards. One of the jurors decided that she can't be fair and impartial after all and has been dismissed.

She also said that friends and family have asked if she's a juror in this case and she's afraid her identify will become public. Which goes to a point I made on Tuesday.

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:49 pm Which I thought was just as much a waste of time as Greene's amendments.

Agreed. Delay of any sort just plays into Vladimir Putin's hands. Speaking of which, one of Greene's amendments calls for the U.S. to withdraw from NATO.

For whatever it's worth (and I have no idea), here's a New York Times profile of Melania Trump as regards this trial.

The first time I heard of Pete Buttigieg was when someone shared this April 2019 video in which he announced that he was exploring a presidential run. What resonated for me was the lines, "There's no such thing as 'again' in the real world" and "We can't look for greatness in the past...