Not for some of us it isn't, so who is Douthat speaking to? Vox contributors like Ezra Klein seem to presume that ideology can triumph over biological entropy when warranted, and it is presumptuous, whether in reference to Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, or William Rehnquist, whom some of us remember perfectly well died as chief justice during Bush 43's second term. If Douthat annoys me so much with his ironic biblical allusions I can simply remove him from my feed, but we pay these people to think, and where is the thought here? Regardless of the ideological spectrum from which we ponder these things, this ghoulish death watch barometer surrounding Ginsburg diminishes feminine authority. It is hardly an enhancement or augmentation to continually quote Colbert's "bubble wrap" dig for one of the most powerful senior citizens in the country, whose health outcome blots out the sun when it comes to a comparison with people like my aunt, Marie Varenas, who has also had her share of oncological battles with tumor masses, first in the stomach, then the lung. She is now a frail 79, which doesn't seem to be a foreshortening of the average American woman's "span," although the quality of her independence has been arguably impacted after a lifetime adhesion to the habit, three packs of Marlboros a day, at one point, but Douthat isn't speaking to her self-destructive behavior either. He merely references it as a universal critique of how the working class rewards itself, without hesitating for one moment to reflect that just maybe those diagnosed with autism, downs syndrome, muscular dystrophy, or the recently deceased Lucasian's motor neurone disease, didn't have a choice. Does this mean I am assigning blame for the suffering obstacles of cerebral palsy's flash in the pan successes snuffed out by lengthy periods of impoverished ennui? Yes, in part, but it is a complex interlocking of ableism and its clueless ignorance, and the way we respond to Ginsburg's age is symptomatic of that, with a few, like Dr. Barnett, offering the appropriate level of decorum. James Woods, akin to my aunt, trumpets her resilience. This may amount to a form of denial, certainly in Marie's case, while conservatives like myself neigh off with her head, a "get real" concern about functionality. In truth, I have erroneously associated Ginsburg's elevation as a palliative for President Clinton's withdrawn nomination of Lani Guinier for Attorney General, a woman who might have served as Ocasio-Cortez's clit licking doubles book end if she wasn't a crone herself by now, but I cannot think of any key decisions of Ginsburg's which fundamentally improved those niceties like gender equality, or the self-immolation of affirmative action. It was O'Connor, not Ginsburg, who sided with liberalism to preserve the ADA as a hollowed out veneer to frightening anarchists like myself.
"I think it started when Burr shot Hamilton."-- Dr. Randy Barnett, Georgetown University What I wanted to discuss Tuesday morning, with a certain degree of blandness in my demise, is the destruction of Paul Ryan's legacy. Jack Posobiec, local Trumpian jackass whom I followed briefly to see what formula he was using that I wasn't, in order to support himself, blockhead who treats his followers like eighth grade civic students, collapsing the lack of virtual dimension on social media with the invocation to raise your hand (and where, Jack, are people supposed to raise their hands in the automated continuity of cloud computing based storage?) Damn stupid fuck, Posobiec. I attend three universities and get out-shined by a Protean buzz head like this fellow, who observed earlier in the week, "Ryan has been in the legislature 20 years, can you name his accomplishments?" That was a stinging rebuke to a tax reformist, and I think, not entirely fair, not even by the standards of Chait's summary for Intelligencer. When I was still on Niume's failed public blogging platform, I too jumped on the bandwagon, badly wanting the ACA repealed. It has made my access to reasonable standard of care that much more difficult, and this was the one thing I had hoped the GOP could achieve. While it's trues that Trump was light on policy details, Ryan was an experienced legislature who committed a stunning ideological failure. This diminished his prominence, and that was the end of that. But instead, let's switch gears to Twitter's detractors, once again delivered by Dr. Barnett and his delightfully cribbed humor. I happen to enjoy the way Barnett delivers his bon mots thank you, and he was kind enough to tweet beck to me about the demise of the filibuster, which I believe is an overlooked issue in contemporary legislative battles. I happen to agree with Reynolds, particularly in light of the fact that I mistook Sergio Siano for a Korean lesbian and got into a brawl with a British faggot named Farlene, or some such spelling, and half the international disabled community. I am laughing to the point of burning tears in my eyes. My Samsung Galaxy is larger than my old Apple, but if I do not open the actual thumbnail pictures of account holders, I cannot see them all that clearly in miniature. I knew the retweet came from a follower in Singapore, and leapt to the wrong conclusions. On my computer screen, Sergio is clearly a male who didn't want to be embroiled in a date rape. However, if you examine his thread, he claims he was accused of being gay, does gay things, and isn't homophobic. He insists on it more than once. While the old fashioned term "gay panic" actually points to the possibility of a psychotic break, people need to cease and desist on the issue of homoerotic fear. It is perfectly natural to be afraid of letting go of that kind of inhibition. I told Sergio, as I have written here, that I was molested by an insatiable black woman from the inner city. It was one of the most difficult episodes in my life, and this is why gays and lesbians get killed. I comprehend violent reactions against such prevaricating tactics of exploitation. Gender fluidity is going to take us quite some time to process, to hit on equitable solutions for all, including insecure heterosexuals. Speaking of which, I have not read Douthat's wasp piece yet, but he is defending caste poise, dispensed to the masses. Why was Ruth, as King David's great-grandmother, so important within the Torah? Think about it for a while. There are a number of lessons in Semitic apocrypha.
Although
the dowager did not offer it rapt attention beyond the first twenty minutes, the
B grade revenge fantasy Steel
and Lace has a few interesting twists to its credit beyond the standard
autonomic predator motif. It offers a sympathetic backstory for Claire Wren as
the victim overwhelmed by the collusion of masculine privilege, and combines a
procedural pursuit against its marginal futurist construct, then ends on the
same tragic note as it opened, perhaps to convey that vigilantism leads us to
the same empty, mind-numbing place, even if Bruce Davison, with his more
subdued command of telegenic capture than Ed Begley Jr, who he resembles, had a
take which may have opened the door for his casting into his X-Men role. This is not to applaud the movie for its cartoonish aspects. Michael Cerveris and his cohorts, although it implied otherwise, do not deserve their horrific deaths at the hands of yet another play on black widow mating aspects due to a stigmatizing sexual violation. This is what the Colorado baker's refusal to service a a gay couple, and Wilkinson's request for Sanders to leave the Red Hen amount to, the application of stigma, and our tolerances to be put on the spot. I agree that Sarah Wilkinson had the right to refuse Sanders service, but her rationale for doing so is tenuous at best. Press Secretaries do not make White House policy, they explain or justify to the press corp, regardless of ideological stripes, and I was angry about the fiasco for this reason. The woman is a federal office holder, and yet the discomfort of bus boys and waiters is of a sudden preeminent because this particular president is trying to ease pressure on our southern border with a more exposed, authoritarian gesture. Freedom of mobility is important, and if the indigenous peoples conquered by colonialism want to destroy the best aspects of Western civilization, maybe now well past its zenith, they may be victorious against imperial sins out of moral guilt latticed into egalitarian fictions, but any number of people may still die needlessly, if developing world standards are a new found metric.
It takes our now embattled , but still robust meritocracy, as embodied in Georgetown's Randy Barnett, that we haven't quite revamped the legal dueling as a method to settle the argument between federalism and the masses. As Trump has ratcheted up his peevishness, I have toned down my excoriating expletives, mostly due to the extraordinary exertions of bowel maintenance, but I haven't retreated. If Maga and the left wants a blood feud, bring it on. My life is as gestapo hardened as Allison's real life will to survive against such savagery against her body. Proportionality may fail us even in the most heartfelt circumstances, but we always have new medians. The age of the savant has caught on.
