One problem with the idea of “global warming” is that people in cooler climates might think “I wouldn’t mind it being a few degrees warmer”. Unfortunately it isn’t going to happen like that.
U.S. Legal Misogyny
Noticed these three stories near the top of my news feed today. Ladies, ever get the feeling the US legal system is heavily stacked against you? No matter how rich or famous you are?
Rich, famous guy convicted of drugging and raping dozens of women has conviction overturned.
Bill Cosby released from prison after conviction vacated
Famous actresses involved in “sex cult” run by man set to prison.
Allison Mack sentenced to 3 years in prison for her role in NXIVM sex cult
Famous singer still under her father’s “conservatorship” a dozen years later.
Britney Spears’ petition to remove father from conservatorship denied by judge
Global Climate Change
Lots of stuff almost everyone knows, but all in one updated article. Changes should have been made in the 1980s.
Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price
Losing Control, Locally
I first noticed this when Austin passed an ordinance against throw away plastic grocery bags, and the state stepped in and removed the ban. I thought the conservatives liked local control of issues.
The most bizarre was perhaps a proposal to bypass selective local noise ordinances. The bill was crafted to apply only to Austin and was sponsored by rural representatives far from the Music Capital. I’m not sure if they were being paid off by someone or if it was just a spiteful move of some sort. Either way it is a strange way to run a state.
It’s not just voting and Covid: How red states are overriding their blue cities
And I Still Can’t Find a Parking Space
I have heard one third of the land in cities is used for cars. Not hard to believe.
America has eight parking spaces for every car. Here’s how cities are rethinking that land
Good Guys With Guns
Bad Guy With Gun shoots and kills police officer. Good Guy With Gun shoots BGWG. Next police officer on scene sees GGWG holding rifle over body of slain officer and slain BGWG, and shoots and kills GGWG. So, yeah, GGWGs can help in rare circumstances, but having lots of unidentified people with guns can only lead to this sort of confusion. In the end the only real difference this GGWG made was getting himself accidentally shot and killed by police. This is why police wear uniforms and drive marked cars.
Colorado man who intervened after ambush on officer was fatally shot by police
Another Texas Scam
From the Observer.
Entitled To Profit: In Texas, Title Insurance Is a “Total Scam”
Red Summer
There has been lots of attention on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. What isn’t widely known is this was not an isolated event. After WW I, in the early part of the 20th century, there were dozens of similar events in what is know as the Red Summer.
Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States, as well as in one rural county in Arkansas.
Steven A. Guccione 