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June 17, 2017
Re: Michelle Carter's "bullying" felony-murder conviction yesterday in Massachusetts.
Horrible little person--she texted her beta boyfriend to kill himself, and he did--but bad precedent, too. Not a good conviction. The worst. If it can be narrowly limited to its facts on how she arguably created a duty, sure, granted, maybe it won't be so bad. But her conviction in this judge-heard case in any event opens the doors to all manner of vague "bullying" litigations. Bad idea. We'll regret it. Hope it's overturned on appeal. It's not illegal 90% of the time to be a "bad" person or an asshole in America. Nor should it be. We can't criminalize real life bullying and high-handedness. Even for this little creep. That needs to be driven home. It's still speech, too. Good news? ACLU gets this one. Denounced it.
Posted by JD Hull at 03:18 PM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2017
Think I'm peaking GOP...
I really think so. One of my tweets on Twitter yesterday. I wonder what this one will look like to me in a week, a month, a year:
"Monarchy and aristocracy make more sense to me every day. Our schools & "universities" continue to produce beer hippies, cretins & serfs."
Posted by JD Hull at 03:32 AM | Comments (0)
June 13, 2017
NPR is Awesome.
I do love NPR's 3rd World coverage. Always begins like this (woman's voice):
"Maeve and her husband Declan had never seen a can-opener before. They live with their 13 children in the impoverished village of Lindsey--population barely 200--in the most feral woodlands of southern County Cork...."
Posted by JD Hull at 07:25 PM | Comments (0)
Jeff Sessions
Me on Facebook livestream today while watching Sessions hearing. About 3:20 pm EST:
"Going back to work. But Sessions is really stepping up to this. Doing well. Masterful. This is backfiring. The Vice-Chairman today? Strictly Weenie Patrol. Chairman Burr? Almost as bad. Grandstanding. Campaigning like a rat in heat..."
Posted by JD Hull at 03:38 PM | Comments (0)