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Remember the murder hornets? Well, forget them. A nest of radioactive wasps has been discovered near Aiken, South Carolina, at a site where parts for nuclear bombs were made and where liquid nuclear waste is stored. The radiation level of the nest is ten times higher than what federal regulations allow but officials say there is no danger to anyone, which is what they always say. Basically, they sprayed it with Raid and disposed of it. The Savannah River Site Watch remains unconvinced, with its executive director calling himself "mad as a hornet." Tom Clements thinks the public should be told if there is a leak from the site's 43 underground storage tanks, but transparency is not a feature of present-day government.
Radioactive wasps -- some comic book writer is doubtless at work on The Adventures of Waspman, with dumb loud movie to follow -- are the perfect symbol of our perilous condition. One by one our once esteemed universities sheepishly promise to stop admitting "DEI" students unless they need someone to play Big Whatever sports. Brown is the latest to proffer a $50 million bribe in return for frozen science and medical funding, following in the sorry footsteps of Columbia and Penn. The Ivy League has become so craven, it should be renamed the Poison Ivy League.
Alan Dershowitz used to be the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School before he rose to prominence defending dubious but wealthy clients like Claus von Bulow, O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Today we learn that he is suing a food vendor on Martha's Vineyard for refusing to sell him six pierogi. He describes them as "Ukrainian, Russian delicacies." I would have said Polish, but why quibble? "They were not my grandmother's pierogi but they were OK." Of course the outrage was captured on his phone: Dershowitz: "Can I have six pierogi?" Bigoted vendor: "No, no, no. We have plenty of pierogi, I just won't sell them to you." Dershowitz: "What do you mean you won't sell them to me?" Bigoted vendor: "I won't sell them to you because I don't approve of your politics. I don't approve of who you represented." Dershowitz promptly found a policeman but the vendor was not arrested. The officer said that based on his experience private establishments have a right of refusal and suggested civil remedies. And here we are. Dershowitz had no success in forcing people to invite him to their cocktail parties but perhaps he will prevail in Hungry Man v. Dumpling Withholder. If not, he can always summer in Asbury Park. Try the calzone!
"ONE YEAR AGO AMERICA WAS A DEAD COUNTRY, NOW IT IS THE 'HOTTEST' COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD," The Leader proclaimed, describing a nation of 330 million as if it were a velvet-rope nightclub on the Vegas Strip. It's certainly true that we achieved a milestone never before sought, a place on the Global Rights Watchlist compiled by the non-profit group Civicus. Right alongside Kenya, Turkey and El Salvador, could you be prouder? They cite "sustained attacks on civic freedoms" including militarized suppression of protest, intimidation of journalists and targeting "civil society groups and activists, particularly those supporting Palestinian rights." And not just American supporters -- it's going to be "very hard to make a Trade Deal" with Canada because it contemplates recognizing Palestinian statehood. With tariffs as a weapon the dictator will make the whole world follow his purblind foreign policy. Civicus, take note.
Who won the Battle of Los Angeles, when National Guard and Marines prevented the violent occupation and destruction of the city, mostly by listening to music and playing video games in their tents? Because the brave ICE agents were under attack everywhere? Come on, it was only a month ago.
Not the government. It turns out that many charges against protesters have had to be quietly dropped as prosecutors admit ICE made "false and misleading statements." The Guardian is calling it "a major embarrassment" for Trump's US attorney for southern California Bill Essayli. Just wait until the falsely accused start suing him. The catch-and-release method has been described as a technique to "detain people, hold them in custody, instill fear and discourage people from exercising their First Amendment rights." That sounds about right, and not even original. The Nixon administration once filled a football stadium with Vietnam War protesters.
Somewhere Elbridge Gerry is smiling. When Texas obeyed The Leader and redrew its Congressional map to produce five extra Republican seats -- something about the House slipping away and impeachment appearing on the horizon -- it was a triumph. When Gavin Newsom retaliated by promising to redistrict California, Jaydee Vance had a litter of kittens: "The gerrymander in California is outrageous...17 percent of their delegation is Republican when Republicans regularly win 40 percent of the vote. How can this possibly be allowed?" It's called politics, couch abuser. Don't panic -- the Roberts gang will probably find a way to allow the one and not the other based on a law from the reign of Charles I.
Another reason it could be hard to make "a Trade Deal" with Canada:
Despite his inability to hear inconvenient questions, bloated legs and propensity for dozing off at public events, it is known that Trump is the healthiest and most virile individual in history and may well live to be
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