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Getting together at the bar was a bit tricky this week since we're all scattered to the wind and John Yoo thought it essential that he swing through a McDonald's takeout window for the double-cheeseburger special with large fries, so he was late joining us. We were halfway through learning about the newest acronym in higher education—AANAPISI—when he finally turned up, but we managed to get though a lot of material, including:
• Fetterman and Feinstein, fit as fiddles, if you believe that faddle!
• What's up with a weird new verbal tic Biden appointees display in their confirmation hearings (especially when Sen. John Kennedy is politely eviscerating them)?
• Answering a listener question from last week's episode: what are the three clauses of the original Constitution that offered protection for southern slave interests (even if the word "slave" was purposely excluded from the text). Our discussion of this may have extended a bit beyond what our listener wanted, but this is one of the risks you take when you ask questions!
• What's up with the Supreme Court dropping the Title 42 case, and what's up with the forthcoming suit against Google that may rein in Section 230 immunity?
• And of course our Kamalaism of the week.
Finally, just for grins and giggles this week I decided to add a "name that tune" contest for the closing bumper music, for listeners who persevere to the very end. It's a tune from 50 years ago, from an artist little known at the time and pretty much forgotten today, though the vocalist on this track became much better known, but was quite obscure in 1973. Bonus points for listeners who can pick out the vocalist and puzzle out the instrumentalist who wrote the song. No fair using music recognition aps! Put you guesses or answers in the comment threads. (I have a hunch a couple of our listeners who are prog rock aficionados may know the answer. . .)
'Lucretia'
John Yoo
Steve Hayward
"Lucretia"
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Peter Gabriel?
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Close, but no. (I'll wait for more guesses to roll in before giving the answer.)
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Absolutely agree on "thank you for that question." It is almost always followed by an incredibly smarmy non-answer.
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To me, the vocal has a hint of Paul Simon, but he was well known by 1973. . . . (I’m bound to be far off because I don’t know “prog rock”.)
It would serve Democrats right if Fetterman can’t cast a vote on a bill they’d really like to pass because he’s still in the hospital. This will be especially bitter to them if the 2024 elections actually do upend the balance of power in the Congress. (If the 2024 elections don’t do that, well, . . . )
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Since Lucretia is a Catholic convert and everyone knows that converts are among most zealous I need to know, given the leaked FBI memo, if I, a mere cradle Catholic need to be aware of her proclivity for terrorism?
(Full disclosure: As a former altar boy I still remember a lot of my Latin responses from the old Latin Mass days so I assume I'm also possibly on a watch list ---from at least a regional FBI office.)
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