Tag Archives: SCOTUS

It has happened before

While our immediate world seems to have been turned upside down in the space of a couple of nauseating weeks, I am reading a book about the Constitution. Yes, this is one of those “I’m reading a book” posts. Can’t … Continue reading

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Guns — further restrictions.

Way back in — good grief could it be 2012? Yes — in 2012, I published a characteristically sarcastic essay about guns in America, culminating in a new law I called, “The One Gun One Child Act.”  This was six … Continue reading

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A stat that should make us elite New Yorkers even snottier

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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