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  1. Well, over the years, I have known various folks that "checked a box" for affirmative action that were very privileged, but nonetheless members of minority groups. It certainly violates the intent of the law, but not the letter. So, it's one of those morally ambiguous things like taking a tax break that's legal but not consistent with the intent of the law. And, of course, any law that permits use of the law in a way highly inconsistent with its intention or purpose is, at minimum, a poorly drafted law. Also, given that his father was Columbia faculty, he was "deceiving" no one. I'm sure the admissions committee was gtfo with that. Politically, though, it's pretty toxic in multiple ways, as you note. Then we have the whole fruit of the poisonous tree problem with the information itself. I think denigrating factual information because of its tainted origin (key word here is factual) is something best confined to circumstances like the 4th Amendment. It seems rare that truth should yield to circumstance or procedure.
  2. And, unfortunately, even if it doesn't reflect poorly on him, it's one of those edge cases in which affirmative action (DEI!) is actually inequitable.
  3. I thoroughly enjoy Waterworld.
  4. Meaning it's not a new traveshamockery, it's the same one from a couple of weeks ago.
  5. Probably worth pointing out that this is just more DVD. The district court tried an end run around the stay of injunction and this cuts it off. Kagan concurred with this despite dissenting from the stay.
  6. Yeah, and that's the problem Dems have. They sound smart and wonky.
  7. Yeah I do show up, I don't try to lie my way out of it. I'd do it if I got picked, but thus far it hasn't happened. Mostly doesn't have anything to do with me because I rarely make it to a courtroom even, but once there, I do feel the chances are slight that I'll get picked.
  8. Bunny Colvin?
  9. Unfortunately, this can't be pinned on one guy. Trump is the catalyst, but this is the culmination of decades of work by people way smarter. It doesn't end with one guy's death, it'll take a huge overhaul. Remember, it'll only be bloodless "if the left allows it to be". Thing is though the people way smarter had no idea how to win elections like Trump can. Without Trump, we could have gone another 20-30 years and maybe completely outlived the P2025 broligarch problem.
  10. I get called every other year like clockwork. Been on a death penalty panel, came close in a JP case where the lawyers had no idea what they were doing, but I was like 8th or 9th on the panel, so they got a jury before me. Came really close in a child sexual assault case back in Fort Fun, but it plead before they started questioning. Most of the time I don't make it out of the Central Jury Room. Although I would kind of like to sit on a jury in certain types of matters, I mostly don't want to fuck with it. I want to stand up and say I am a degreed engineer and a lawyer and I distrust cops, can y'all just go ahead and strike me now?
  11. Well, the problem could well be your "receiver" (considering each sensor a sender or transmitter). I've only ever had one go out in four vehicles since 1995. Three of the four American.
  12. Also highly presumptive to assume that you will actually get something out of the death of another person in vengeance. If you REALLY know that, might need to seek help. I believe you consider yourself a Christian. Accordingly, you will realize that, believer or not, the Bible is full of pretty good psychology, primitive as some of it is. "Vengeance is mine" I think is one of those pretty solid psychological tips.
  13. If you are waiting on the death of a perp to obtain closure on the death of a loved one, you're never going to get closure, no matter what happens.
  14. Adults in charge. Don't usually like the term, but complete beta cucks.
  15. Some truth to this, for sure. But in the case of both Christians and Muslims, the fundamentalists seek and get more attention than the more devout and principled adherents. And potentially comprise a larger percentage of both religions. And, of course, one of the practical, if not theological, aspects of fundamentalism is a willingness to inject the religion into politics. Fundamentalism often IS politics.
  16. But most observers of Judaism confine criticism of the Orthodox to that relatively small sect of the faith, so the criticism is more principled and limited. Fundamentalism in Christianity is more pervasive and even moreso in Islam. As legit as the criticism is, the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. One thing, though, Judaism has almost always been a minority religion and lacked power. So its excesses have been somewhat limited and criticism considered unwarranted or unjustifiable, just like a lot of legitimate criticism of minority groups.
  17. The Islamic religion has a lot of problems that make many of its adherents problematic. The precise same thing can be said of Christians, and the problems are very similar in origin (ancient texts selectively interpreted by uneducated clerics and followed slavishly by uneducated adherents). The difference being that often, practitioners of Islam are brown, while practitioners of Christianity are white. But even this isn't really true so much anymore. And Islam is not a minority religion. It's kind of like what is actually antisemitic and what is legitimate criticism of Israel. Curiously, hardly anyone levels criticism at Judaism, per se.
  18. I mean, the worker, whose votes Dems need and probably should be getting, can be complete troglodytes on just about everything but labor issues, which is why so many of them have voted Trump recently, and unions flirt with him. One thing that cracks me up, though, is it is scurrilously bad to paint with an overbroad brush on Muslims, but perfectly A-Ok to do the same thing about "Christians," who have a lot of the same problems, with less violence, and are probably more diverse from a "who calls themselves Christian" standpoint.
  19. Opting in or out is for plaintiff class members -- athletes. The defendants are the NCAA and P5 conferences, who are parties to and bound by the settlement. I'm not sure any universities are actual defendants. The only opting in or out by universities is leaving their conference.
  20. Matthew Kaczmaryk, yes. And to assert the most outre Texas DTPA claim I have ever seen in my life. Had it been any other litigant, Kaczmaryk would have shot the suit into the sun in a matter of weeks.
  21. Well, he went to a creepy Christian high school (Ben Lippen), seems to favor a fairly creepy Christian college that he does not attend. And he writes about an ultra-right-wing public university that may actually have the most prominent/successful athletics of such an URW institution. There's a thread there.
  22. Supporting != character.
  23. To be fair, though, a poor probably isn't getting charged with any of this. Diddy's high profile was a key component to this prosecution.
  24. Yeah my clients that are all involved in manufacturing to a greater or lesser extent, and therefor on imported goods, much from China, have been tearing their hair out. I know of one that is a for-sure Trump voter and I gather he thinks he's fighting some kind of righteous war. Weirdly, he asked me if I could do an exclusive distribution agreement for a Chinese product. I suppose if it's exclusive then a 20-140% add-on is immaterial, but he's probably competing with something/someone.
  25. Yeah, I used to harbor the notion that government was inefficient. But then you give a clear-eyed look at most of private corporate America, and you realize it's a shit show everywhere you turn. It's human nature.
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