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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Thomas Derangement Syndrome?

Episode length: 1h

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Move over Trump Derangement Syndrome! The left is clearly afflicted now with a full-blown case of Thomas Derangement Syndrome—after Justice Clarence Thomas's speech last week about the Declaration of Independence, which, let's face it, gives leftists the heebie-jeevies with all that talk about how we are "endowed by our Creator" with certain inalienable rights. With the band back together again this week, we dissect the left's hysterical reaction which indicate to us that Thomas hit a raw nerve with "Progressives," who are actually quite regressive.

We also divert briefly to John Yoo's typically idiosyncratic observations on executive power in the Declaration, and then conclude this segment with each offering our favorite quotes from Justice Thomas's speech.

From there we turn to the big news of the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (which Steve suggests should be known more accurately as the Southern Poverty Libel Center, but also wondering why there is no Northern Poverty Law Center, or Midwestern Poverty Law Center. Is there no poverty or racism in those regions?).

Host:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (7)

  • Richard Easton@RichardEaston

    My father received the Magellanic Premium from the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and was made a member the following year. Here I am in 1999 with my wife along with John and Kate Lord. Kate’s first husband was the son of Charlie Bossart who designed the Atlas ICBM. ’

  • HoundDog@HoundDog
    Steve, your new ending lacks parallelism. You start the closing theme with highlighting "single" malt and "singular" metaphysics and then lose that thread altogether by doubling down on Sydney Sweeney. I can't think of a single attribute that warrants crowning her the crescendo queen of your farewell!
  • Al Sparks@AlSparks

    Pretty good episode. The sound was good. I didn't have to fiddle with the volume between speakers.

    On Clarence Thomas's "sermon" (John's description), he did go to Seminary, even if he took another direction.

  • WilliamWarford@WilliamWarford
    ReplyingtoHoundDog

    HoundDog (View Comment):

    Steve, your new ending lacks parallelism. You start the closing theme with highlighting “single” malt and “singular” metaphysics and then lose that thread altogether by doubling down on Sydney Sweeney. I can’t think of a single attribute that warrants crowning her the crescendo queen of your farewell!

    Sydney Sweeney has a way of derailing Steve's train of thought.

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