Category Archives: Judiciary

A stat that should make us elite New Yorkers even snottier

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Naomi

Especially today, in the face of the SCOTUS decision hampering the EPA, look at this from the July 2022 Harper’s Index: Percentage by which the carbon footprint of a New Yorker is lower than that of the average American: 68

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Have you ever read an entire Supreme Court decision?

Posted on June 24, 2022 by Naomi

I did. Once. It had been written by then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The Times had printed all of it for some reason. I say “some reason” because I don’t remember what it was about. But whatever it was, it angered … Continue reading →

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If I were emotionally fragile…

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Naomi

…after today, I’d go to bed for a week.

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