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After a one week hiatus for jury duty, the Three Whisky Happy Hour with Steve and Lucretia is back, but with a role-reversal: Lucretia bartends this week! Partly this is so Lucretia can school Steve on how to think about vigilantism and the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who has been charged with murder for what appears to have been self-defense in the Kenosha riots earlier this week.
Our second flight of whisky is inspired by Joseph Epstein’s commentary in today’s Wall Street Journal on “Today’s College Classroom is a Therapy Session,” in which we drink to and reminisce about having one of the toughest “tough guy” professors—the late constitutional historian Leonard Levy. He was terrifying in the classroom in ways that wouldn’t be allowed today—and an experience neither of us would trade for anything. Students today have no idea what they’ve lost with our new emphasis on “safe” and “nurturing” classrooms.
Finally, we decided to drink to a winner and loser of the week. Our surprise winner of the week is author J.K. Rowling, for returning a stupid prize from the Kennedy family because some Kennedys are upset that she won’t submit to the increasingly tyrannical transgender ideology. And our loser of the week is clueless Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is getting what he deserves good and hard. And we can drink to that, too.
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Excellent podcast! Chick-fil-A – from genius to idiot in one generation. Usually, it takes at least two.
Lucretia was wrong about the bikers. They didnt go anywhere to start anything. This year is the 80th Anniversary of the Sturgis Rally. Their ‘sin’ was refusing to cancel the out door event because of the covid-1984 panic. It was ANTIFA that went there looking for trouble – and when they found it demanded police protection. It was Pajama boy vs Biker.
I’m guessing the police sided with the Pajama Boys. They know where the political power lies.
I saw a video yesterday of this little white turd — not sure if he was Antifa or BLM — howling abuse at a black policeman for being a “race traitor”.
Rodney Dangerfield had a riff about family businesses. It went something (closely) like this: “You talk to a guy who runs a family business, he’ll tell you ‘yeah, my father started this business, now I run it, and eventually I’ll hand it off to my son. Lucky for them I came along, ’cause they’re both f***ing idiots.'”