Just One Thing
Normally I'd save this video to the end but for those folks who might check the beginning of the blogcast and not the end, I wanted to make sure you see AOC pretending to be handcuffed as a police officer leads her away from a protest outside the Supreme Court. She really is bad news...and yet I still contend that Reps Pressley, Tlaib, Omar, and Bush are worse.
By the way, as of 8 PM Tuesday, this video had been viewed 5.5 MILLION times...and that doesn't count other sites or other Twitter accounts that might have posted it.
Today's Guest
Scott Lincicome is always an insightful and entertaining guest. Scott is the author of the "Capitolism" newsletter for TheDispatch.com, the director of general economic studies at the Cato Institute, and a visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School.
Our topic for today is the danger of the "Precautionary Principle" which is commonly invoked these days in discussions about climate change by people saying "we must do something now because of what might happen in the future." But those folks ALWAYS ignore the certain costs of their "solutions" while also not considering that their guesses as to the distant future come with very very large potential errors.
Germany, Sri Lanka, and the Perils of Precaution (thedispatch.com)
Other Stuff
There's a new Don McLean documentary with the first-ever line-by-line deconstruction/explanation of his massive folk-song hit, American Pie. More here: ‘I said, Don, it’s time for you to reveal’: 50 years later, the truth behind American Pie | Music | The Guardian
See the trailer for the film below
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If Rokita can't prove that he knew, or credibly believed to know, that his assertions that the doctor had a history of "failing to report" (things the law requires her to report to the government) were true, I hope she buries him in court. This pandering to the anti-abortion far-right has to have some limits.
Also from the "I hope they get buried by the legal system" files, these "fake electors" deserve punishment: Georgia prosecutors say all 16 fake Trump electors are targets in criminal probe - CNNPolitics
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I think there's a slightly greater than 50% chance that a Delaware judge forces Elon Musk to buy Twitter at $54.20 per share, in what may one day be regarded as the most expensive impulse purchase of all time and the biggest loss caused by an impulse purchase.
Judge orders October trial for lawsuit between Elon Musk and Twitter - CNN
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Someone's been very naughty: Cambridges to Be Summoned by Queen After Defying Helicopter Orders (cosmopolitan.com)
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I know that it's not obvious that there's a federal role here, but I think I'm OK with this, especially to basically remove the Supreme Court from the conversation: House votes on same-sex marriage bill after Supreme Court Roe ruling (cnbc.com)
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This story isn't all that interesting except for the revelation of what is Colorado's highest-grossing restaurant: Timberline Steaks & Grille at DIA gets reprieve in liquor license fight (denverpost.com)
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How would you like to be one of these truck drivers? Record-breaking Chinese bridge clears hurdle to faster transport in border province | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)
Today's Videos
First, the trailer for the new documentary about Don McLean, "The Day The Music Died: American Pie", which premiered yesterday on Paramount +.
And then an "exclusive clip" from the film.