It seems amazing, but one of the Senate candidates in Pennsylvania genuinely has a track record of killing puppies.
It puts me in mind of this 2008 Maryland Senate ad in which the (ultimately losing) candidate tried to make fun of attack ads against him by invoking his love for … puppies.
Somehow I remembered it with more puppies, though…
And then, of course, there was this one too:
Warnock won, and it wasn’t even his dog.
Sadly, four of the justices on the current Florida ballot do not deserve retention. I strongly advise voting to remove Justices Charles Canady, Ricky Polston, Jamie Grosshans and John Couriel. I recommend voting to retain Justice Jorge Labarga.
I am not one to lightly suggest that judges and justices should not be retained. Indeed, I think that jurists come to the polls with a presumption that they should be retained. I don’t think we should non-retain a justice just because they have a judicial philosophy I disagree with. But there are a few things that I think we need to look out for: lack of competence, lack of judicial temperament, ethical lapses, and a lack of due respect for precedent.
Four of the Justices on the ballot this year fail–really, horribly, badly–on the last point. They not only don’t respect precedent, they have gone out of their way, in a deeply non-judicial fashion, to reach out and change decisions they didn’t like.
I don’t have the time to write the lengthy screed this topic deserves, but in addition to the matters in the link above, I refer you the Florida Supreme Court’s recent and shameful death penalty cases in which the Florida court basically thumbed its nose at both Florida and US Supreme Court precedent. The American Bar Association’s death penalty representation project offers a quick summary of this at Florida Supreme Court Overturns Precedent Throughout 2020 [link corrected – thank you to CC]. That right there should be enough to inform, and determine, your vote.
And the activism hasn’t stopped. See, for example, the recent change to a long-standing practice regarding punitive damages in Florida Rule Of Appellate Procedure 9.130.
In all of this, Justice Jorge Labarga has been a principled and eloquent dissenter. Vote to retain him please.
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Dear Online Retailers:
I am so tired of you punishing me for having bought from you by automatically sending me marketing emails, often only days after the sale — even when I don’t check “YES! Send me lots of email I don’t want.”
For the record,
Your Former Customer,
Michael Froomkin
P.S. And please don’t get me started on all the punishment I’m getting for having made some political donations. Candidates from all over the US are sending me appeals for funds that look like they came out of one of the same pair of cookie-cutters. All opt-out, never opt-in.
It’s so bad that I am ready to give to the first candidate who sends me an email, even an unsolicited one, promising never to email again unless I reply. Although, come to think of it, if I do that, I guess I’ll get more email anyway…
It seemed fairly busy at the vaccine station at the CVS; “it picks up in the afternoons,” the lady holding the wicked-looking syringe said.
This superior piece of trolling is by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, and ostensibly aimed at Russians in danger of being called up for service in the war.
Spotted via Crooks & Liars, Ukraine’s Ministry Of Defense Trolls Fleeing Russians.
My brother’s blogging hiatus is over and, as he put it, “I’m back and angrier than ever.”
The newest offering is The facts need a bullhorn. I guess he’s shrill. But not without reason:
In just over a month, voters will decide the future of the United States, quite possibly sending it into a downward spiral of know-nothing autocracy, oppression, and white Christian nationalism. And if not this November, then quite possibly in 2024.
But far from shouting the news from the rooftops, our elite political reporters are mewling about dueling parties, polarization, and codependency.
They are failing to call out the hucksters, zealots, charlatans, loons, dupes, and agents of chaos who would lead our country to disaster. They don’t merely treat them with equanimity, they express admiration for their strategy and achievements.
There’s more, of course.
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