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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Cognitive Infrastructure Crisis

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Lucretia hosts this week, as the fearsome threesome give a brief summary of a recent law school seminar on natural law and the Constitution we presented last week at Berkeley Law before a group of somewhat skeptical students, and then moving on to assaying the Biden impeachment inquiry and Hunter Biden's smoking gun charge, asking why all the White House spokespeople seem to have come from Nerd Central (we mean you, Ian Sams!), and explaining the fundamental asymmetry of the Administrative State in Democratic and Republican presidencies.

And isn't it nice that Virginia Democrats have offered us a whole new definition of a "working family"? Who knew that Only Fans might become a new source for campaign contributions. Also: once again the question—are Biden and Harris both on the Democrats' chopping block for next year?

Get this: the latest rationale for federal government censorship of the internet is protecting "cognitive infrastructure," which sounds beyond the perverse imagination even of Orwell. And you know how well things go when the government gets interested in infrastructure!

Finally, we close out with some actual news, namely, John Yoo sharing some perspective on his expert witness testimony in the ongoing disbarrment proceeding against John Eastman this week.

Host:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (5)

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford

    The mobster to whom Lucretia refers is Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, who did indeed walk the streets in a bathrobe for many years to try to persuade prosecutors he was unfit for trial. As John noted, it didn't work, but it did earn him many photos in the NY Post and the moniker "The Oddfather."

  • Dr.Guido@DrGuido

    Here we are a solid 2.5Years into the Biden/Harris Mal-Administration and there is STILL not a single person who can be labeled a 'Star" in this gang. You would think that after 30 months or so of testing and replacing and re-establishing that by sheer chance or accident someone---ANYONE!!--- would emerge so that a dispassionate observer could say he/she/it is a legitimate positive standout .

    Not a one.

    That's mind-boggling!

    (Please correct me if I am wrong---who did I miss or overlook?)

  • GlennAmurgis@GlennAmurgis
    ReplyingtoWilliamWarford

    WilliamWarford (View Comment):

    The mobster to whom Lucretia refers is Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, who did indeed walk the streets in a bathrobe for many years to try to persuade prosecutors he was unfit for trial. As John noted, it didn’t work, but it did earn him many photos in the NY Post and the moniker “The Oddfather.”

    It worked for a number of years - He finally got caught.

    I don't think it's an act for Burisma Joe

  • Full Size Tabby@FullSizeTabby

    I still get a daily email from a so-called "legal news" source to which I used to subscribe, but dropped as the "legal news" source became less about the law and more about politics and policy agenda.

    In a recent one of the emails there was a blurb about Prof. Yoo's appearance at Prof. Eastman's bar trial, and I noted how predictably the email identified Prof. Yoo as "torture memo author John Yoo." Not "Berkeley Law professor John Yoo" nor "former White House lawyer John Yoo" nor any of the other broader potential descriptors. Just pejorative language designed to convey to the cognoscenti "one crackpot defending another crackpot."

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford
    ReplyingtoFull Size Tabby

    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    I still get a daily email from a so-called “legal news” source to which I used to subscribe, but dropped as the “legal news” source became less about the law and more about politics and policy agenda.

    In a recent one of the emails there was a blurb about Prof. Yoo’s appearance at Prof. Eastman’s bar trial, and I noted how predictably the email identified Prof. Yoo as “torture memo author John Yoo.” Not “Berkeley Law professor John Yoo” nor “former White House lawyer John Yoo” nor any of the other broader potential descriptors. Just pejorative language designed to convey to the cognoscenti “one crackpot defending another crackpot.”

    That's the left. Rather than confront the argument, they go directly to ad hominem.