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We hadn't even planned to do a regular episode this week because John Yoo is over in Korea, Steve has been away at a three-day conference, and Lucretia is breaking in a new kitten. But we received urgent messages from listeners and readers asking us to please decode just what the Supreme Court did this week, especially in the Moore v U.S. case that dealt with the income tax. Expert commentary seems divided on just what the Court meant, but as John filed an amicus brief in that case, he's the ideal person to break it down for us.
But not before finding a new way to torment him with a successor to the Statute That Cannot Be Named—the nitrogen cycle! And really it fits if you think about it, since the Supreme Court seems to have hit the nitrous oxide a bit too hard in this week's rulings.
Finally, a look at the latest campus news, including how Columbia University is surely going to regret that Alvin Bragg dismissed charges against Columbia students who occupied and vandalized university property. Prediction: there's a 50/50 chance that Columbia doesn't even open up for in-person campus life this fall.
John Yoo
'Lucretia'
Steve Hayward
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Steve, where were you in Marin Co. I lived from 1992-3 in Tiburon.
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I was actually at the Cavallo Point resort, just down from the top end of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Please share - what was your land acknowledgement?
I found a great one by a University of Washington prof Stuart Reges, who put the following on his e-mail signature, syllabi, and office door: “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.”
Compare to the official UW pabulum: “The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.”
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Steve's bad jokes are great, don't let anyone say otherwise. Plus John missed when saying "unleashed the kraken" the far better rejoinder of "unleashed the krapken," considering the K-poop commentary.
Thanks, I'm show myself out...
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Steve, your jokes are terrible -- don't ever stop! (But you should probably keep your many day jobs.)
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