OA820: Bad Judges, Bad Judges, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Added 2023-10-16 04:36:42 +0000 UTCLiz and Andrew round up a bunch of stories, from the Speaker of the House race to the responses to various trans and drag show bans.
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Teresa Gomez
2023-10-17 23:19:40 +0000 UTCThe rulings are insane… the Federalist Society is scary and every one involved with it is seditious. Imh
C’mon
2023-10-17 21:20:02 +0000 UTCI grew up in a conservative Christian school in central Florida (we took a special variation of the scholastic achievement test) and didn’t learn about most of these venerables until I went to a liberal liberal arts college (Catholics saints were a little close to idolatry for my school). Hildegard von Bingen was a staple of my early music studies - wasn’t she only venerated recently? We learned her as a bit of a badass for how well-respected and learned she was at a time when hardly anyone made a name for themselves, let alone women.
“Well, it depends…” is the right answer
2023-10-16 21:48:01 +0000 UTCAm I at the wrong tier? I can’t find the CLT bonus. 🙁
“Well, it depends…” is the right answer
2023-10-16 21:38:38 +0000 UTCOn the yard sign thing, I live in NoVA, and one of the best things they ever did was pass the rule that signs are not allowed in public right of way, and that includes the median inside your sidewalk. They get taken down quickly, and it’s made people give it up by and large. I believe they also have the ability to fine the campaigns if there are widespread issues. I lived here before the rule, and it’s night and day. I used to see hundreds of signs a day, now probably fewer than a dozen. So even in one of the most political places, I still see very few yard signs, so I probably wouldn’t even notice that about New Orleans. I recommend the rule highly, so much less garbage.
Tim Whatley
2023-10-16 14:47:14 +0000 UTCAlso, would an all-male (or all-female) performance of King Lear be (a) forbidden (b) fine, provided everyone wore Mao suits?
Eleanor Durrant
2023-10-16 10:37:21 +0000 UTCShe's super famous for her music, of course, and to some extent her medical recipes, but I was surprised to hear her on that list!
Eleanor Durrant
2023-10-16 08:48:51 +0000 UTCI have questions about the drag bans. Do they forbid the performance of, say, Twelfth Night, or The Marriage of Figaro? And do they forbid "original practices" performances of Shakespeare (as they do at the Globe sometimes) where all the parts are played by men? I'm not clear whether the bans are supposed to apply to everyone, or only to men?
Eleanor Durrant
2023-10-16 07:58:26 +0000 UTCBy the way - I grew up in Bingen, Germany and never in a million years thought I would hear Saint Hildegard of Bingen referenced in an American podcast 😂 - until this CLT madness
Lucas S
2023-10-16 06:33:08 +0000 UTCLook I love the show, so please don’t take this the wrong way - but stop constantly defaming Nate Silver. He forecasted Trump had a 30% of winning much higher than any other major forecast. Anybody who saw that forecast and didn’t understand Trump had a SIGNIFICANT chance of winning just doesn’t know how probabilities work. If you roll a dice and a 5 or 6 comes up — nobody would react by saying omg how could this have happened! Contrast that with 2012 - when the media narrative was that the race was much closer - while Nate silver only gave Romney a 10% of winning
Lucas S
2023-10-16 05:48:14 +0000 UTCDecember 1, Saint Cholestra, patroness of cookies; December 2, Saint Bibiana's Day (patroness against hangovers)
Ann Sharp
2023-10-16 05:45:31 +0000 UTCNew Orleans! 🙌.
Ciarán Brennan
2023-10-16 05:06:59 +0000 UTC
