no excuse

COVID-19 Concerns Shouldn't Shut Down Police Brutality Protests: Health Experts:

FRIDAY, June 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A letter signed by nearly 1,300 public health professionals, infectious diseases professionals and community stakeholders says fear of COVID-19's spread is no excuse to stop people from joining police brutality protests in cities across America.

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The authors called racism and white supremacy "a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19."

Pauline Kael effect

Cognitive segregation reified in a Tweet! Also known as the Pauline Kael effect: "How can Nixon have won?" she said in 1968. "Nobody I know voted for him." She was a film critic for the New Yorker. - Charles Murray @charlesmurray

a few relevant links:
. Pauline Kael quotes
. The Actual Pauline Kael Quote—Not As Bad, and Worse by John Podhoretz in Commentary
. The Fraudulent Factoid That Refuses to Die

vocal beauty

Nadine Sierra, soprano - Praised for her vocal beauty...

vocal, i'm sure

Watch: Soprano Nadine Sierra Live From The Greene Space - ...hailed as “the new face of opera”

face, right

meanwhile on wqxr Frederic Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp Minor, Op. Posth. and then Etude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 25/6 and then Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Trio Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo in B minor, WQ 143

самоотверженно помогающих

При этом папа Франциск отметил "труд тысяч украинских женщин, домашних работниц, самоотверженно помогающих итальянским старикам и детям". - Папа Римский признался, что начинает и заканчивает день "по-украински"

интересно, это самоотверженно придумали русские переводчики, или он так и высказался? не могу найти источник по-английски.

самоотверженно my ass

proportionate use of force

“Let me be clear: violence does not solve anything in politics. It is never the answer, never a solution. It can never be used as a weapon or instrument,” he said. “Europe knows this better than anywhere else … It is a duty of any government to uphold the rule of law and this does sometimes require proportionate use of force.” - EU executive calls for Spanish-Catalan talks after referendum violence

этот самый Timmermans в свое время требовал от Януковича прекратить насилие. Каталония - это другое дело, конечно.

полностью сфабриковано

...слышали в новостях о социологическом исследовании, показавшем, что мнения по "горячим" вопросам меняются после личного разговора с человеком, чья жизнь напрямую касается этого вопроса (типа, разговор о гейских браках с геем). Оказывается, полностью сфабриковано - у shvarz

и далее обширная цитата по теме damage done [доказывай что ты не верблюд] из Честертона. уж очень длинная.

Занятная история. © scholar-vit ну конечно, по эту сторону происходят только занятные истории. возмутительные истории происходят по ту сторону.

about-face Елены Каган

с похвальной прямотой в The Washington Post поясняется:

In contrast, the Robert’s Court pro-speech reputation mostly comes from a series of high-profile rulings about obviously hateful speech: animal crush videos (United States v. Stevens), brutally violent interactive video games sold to kids without parental consent (Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association), bigoted military funeral protestors (Snyder v. Phelps), and false claims to possess the Medal of Honor (United States v. Alvarez). - Free speech and the Roberts Court: uncertain protections

и далее про роль одной Елены Каган:

In 2010, as solicitor general, she argued in Stevens that depictions of illegal animal cruelty should be deemed totally unprotected by the First Amendment. She urged the Court to reach that result by holding that “whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs.”
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In 2011, newly installed on the Court, Kagan provided Scalia with the crucial fifth vote in Brown, the violent video games case, for an opinion that decisively rejected the views she had espoused in Stevens as solicitor general. ... although the sale of obscenity to kids has long been regulated, quite the opposite is true of violent literature, music, and comic books (just consider Hansel & Gretel!). Because of this historic tradition, Scalia declared, the sale of gruesome videogames to minors had to be fully protected.

и еще:

As Breyer asked in Brown, for instance, “What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restricting sales of [an] extremely violent video game only when the woman — bound, gagged, tortured, and killed — is also topless?”

см. также самый Верховный Суд в мире

детям и никому другому

— Товарищи! — продолжал Остап. — Нужна немедленная помощь. Мы должны вырвать детей из цепких лап улицы, и мы вырвем их оттуда. Поможем детям. Будем помнить, что дети — цветы жизни. Я приглашаю вас сейчас же сделать свои взносы и помочь детям, только детям и никому другому. Вы меня понимаете?

Pope Focuses On Mexico's Children During Visit

limited access to Plan B

"After careful consideration of the FDA Summary Review, I have concluded that the data, submitted by Teva, do not conclusively establish that Plan B One-Step should be made available over the counter for all girls of reproductive age," she said in a statement." - Health officials keep limited access to Plan B morning-after pill

бляди, сэр. это я про Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius конечно. ну и про этого засранца: Obama Backs Limit on Sale to Teenagers of Morning-After Pill

Justices Reject...

Justices Reject Ban on Violent Video Games for Children... бляди, сэр. см. также самый Верховный Суд в мире.

...doesn’t amount to “hostilities”

The White House says the act requiring approval by Congress doesn’t apply to the Libya operation because what United States forces are doing there doesn’t amount to “hostilities.” - War Powers Act Does Not Apply to Libya, Obama Argues

ну дураку ведь ясно, а Конгресс не понимает. не зря Марк Твен говорил: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

самый Верховный Суд в мире

Schwarzenegger v. EMA, the landmark case in which the state of California is petitioning for the re-instatement of a California law banning the sale of "deviant or morbid" violent videogames to minors.

Justice Antonin Scalia asked: “What’s a deviant violent video game? As opposed to what? A normal violent video game? ... Some of the Grimm’s fairy tales are quite grim. Are you going to ban them, too?”

Justice Sotomayor: "One of the studies, the Anderson study, says that the effect of violence is the same for a Bugs Bunny episode as it is for a violent video. So can the legislature now, because it has that study, say we can outlaw Bugs Bunny? ... What happens when the character gets maimed, head chopped off and immediately after it happens they spring back to life and they continue their battle? Is that covered by your act?"

Justice Breyer, creating, excuse the pun, a tortured metaphor about a 13-year-old playing video games depicting violence: "I have tried to take as bad a [scenario] as I could think of, gratuitous torture of children. OK. Now, you can't buy a naked woman, but you can go and buy that, you say to the 13-year-old. Now, what sense is there to that?"

Chief Justice Roberts: You "cannot pass a law that says you may not sell to a 10-year-old a video in which they set schoolgirls on fire." Quite what's going through Roberts' mind here is open to speculation.

источники:

Harper's Jan 2011 pg 21

nyt
slate.com
fastcompany.com
hollywoodreporter.com
escapistmagazine.com

ElBaradei suggests... who cares

ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team - AP

not fit to print in nyt surely...

American Grindhouse

you couldn't show sex on screen, so the violence was a substitute.

Hitchcock Psycho etc - It's all about getting the suckers in.

People would sit through most movies. No matter how shitty.

race was "coincidental"

The judge in the case said the race of the victims and their abusers was "coincidental".

But Mr Straw told the BBC there was a "specific problem" in some areas and called on the Pakistani community to be "more open" about the abuse.

He said: "These young men are in a western society, in any event, they act like any other young men, they're fizzing and popping with testosterone, they want some outlet for that, but Pakistani heritage girls are off-limits and they are expected to marry a Pakistani girl from Pakistan, typically.

"So they then seek other avenues and they see these young women, white girls who are vulnerable, some of them in care... who they think are easy meat."

Mr Straw's comments have been criticised by a number of commentators, including fellow Labour MP and chairman of the Home Affairs Select committee Keith Vaz, who called them "pretty dangerous". - Specialist unit investigates grooming of teenage girls

вот тут бы я лично с удовольствием кое-кому яйца поотрывал. уж Keith Vaz точно бы легко не отделался. не говоря уже о... выделено мной везде, ясный пень.

simply an accident

Washington Post сообщает: Damage to Harvard

"...was simply an accident." via neznaika_nalune

Washington Post deleted this article - not fit to print i guess... so here it is in Huff Post: Damage To Harvard Books On Gay Issues An Accident. свобода, бля...

describe no crimes

Although the thousands of pages ... describe no crimes and show no evidence of General Mladic’s hand in the infamous Srebrenica massacre... Although the relationships have been widely documented in other trials and a plethora of books on the war... - суки позорные.

The Obama Seder Tradition

The Obama Passover Seder is one of the most intimate and least likely of White House traditions. - nyt

anti-Semitic NYT

Against ‘Pro-Israel’ - in a cumbersome and very circumspect way though

A Jew in England

210 Readers' Comments is way too few considering what the guy says:

Westminster, like Britain, has changed. Openness has grown. Bigotry’s faint refrain has grown fainter still. But I think my old school should throw more light on this episode. And I still believe the greatest strength of America, its core advantage over the old world, is its lack of interest in where you’re from and consuming interest in what you can do.

oh my... not even funny.