John Oliver is right. If, instead of dialog illustrated by static courtroom sketches, Supreme Court arguments were reenacted by dogs, everyone would watch them in full, at least at first:
I’m not sure I would have cast a boxer as Justice Kennedy; he seems more like a Dalmatian to me, but that’s a minor quibble. Possibly the Justices could be represented by a new species every year.
schrodinger's cat
They should be represented by cats, Grumpy Cat could be the Chief Justice, I also nominate Maru and Shiro Neko.
ETA: On second thoughts, SC should be represented by both kittehs and doggies to be truly bipartisan. Beatific seal dog can serve on SC too.
pamelabrown53
OT: Having a problem with this site. My avast security keeps flashing a threat warning : http:///mom-ex.tekblue.net/crossdomain; url:MAL. I’m on firefox…anyone else experiencing this? Should I report it as a false positive?
Thanks, in advance, for your feedback.
MattF
The Supremes make their own rules. And, by the way, if you decide you want to demonstrate on the steps of the Supreme Courthouse, guess again.
MattF
@pamelabrown53: I’m not seeing anything suspicious. Well… nothing unusually suspicious.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Maybe J and I were just in the right mood, but we thought that segment was just about the funniest thing we’ve seen on TV in a very, very long time.
Well done J.O.!
Cheers,
Scott.
Punchy
OT, but Ebola ridiculousness just jumped the shark:
A teacher suspended for 21 days merely for traveling to Dallas for a school conference. Merely being in the city of Dallas earned her the scarlet Ebola letter.
Unfukinreal. Of course, it’s paid leave, and he/she’s not quarantined, so hopefully he/she’s treating this like a 3 week paid vacation.
kindness
Saw the piece last night and laughed hard. I can’t wait to see what other people do with this.
Corner Stone
@Punchy:
Sounds like Cole is getting his wish.
MattF
@Punchy: Well, the national IQ has been taking a beating lately. But the general concept of isolating people who have been to Dallas… I can’t help thinking that’s reasonable– you’re getting within range of Louie Gohmert:
http://www.juancole.com/2014/10/gohmerts-theory-dumber.html
Corner Stone
And I, for one, am very happy Nurse Vinson has hired an attorney. Not that I, myself, am litigious, but it would be interesting to see some pushback on the stupid, control freak-minded, craven idiots, blowing their trumpets on this.
gene108
@Punchy:
The only way to be safe is to nuke it from orbit…yeah…I mean Dallas…
I can’t wait till Ebola panic gets to that stage, where we wall off Dallas from the rest of the country.
Trollhattan
@Punchy:
What the…wha?!? I’d be lawyering up, pronto. “Better call Saul!”
srv
Douchebag: The White Racial Slur We’ve All Been Waiting For
You dudebros need to get your upnerd on.
Corner Stone
@MattF: If the stupid is transmitted by osmosis then there’s no hope for this country.
Personally, I see someone like Marsha Blackburn on TV and wonder what would happen in a to-the-death stupid-off contest between her and a round robin of her fellow R congresspeople.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Punchy: To give the Stupid some both-sdes fred, Tulsi Gabbard has called for the quarantine time to doubled. I managed to not bang my head on the steering wheel when I heard that.
I can’t believe how far gone our fucking USSC is, and how little discussion of it there seems to be in the mid-term campaigns. Not match talk about it really, in ’08 or 2012. I think it’s always on the minds of the motivated minorities in both sides, and theirs is bigger than ours, but I don’t remember a time since ’92– Post-Thomas– that the composition of the Court got a lot of discussion. I just can’t believe people aren’t talking more about Hobby Lobby and CU.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Steve King of Iowa would beat her, I think.
MattF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Clearly, everyone should just stay home until it’s over.
Roger Moore
@srv:
I thought Dudebro was doing a perfectly good job.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Punchy: Also, too, apparently there was a school group from Moore OK on the notEbola cruise. The superintendent of schools has ordered school employees on the cruise to stay home, and is asking parents to keep students at home.
Again, the med worker in question has been tested and cleared. S/he did not bring ebola on the cruise
Roger Moore
@schrodinger’s cat:
Not if Louie Gohmert got there first.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: CNN’s headline right now is, “Ebola hysteria: An epic, epidemic overreaction.” That’s like the Jimmy Dean sausage company scolding Americans for consuming too many fatty foods.
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore: “Race to the Bottom[tm]”
srv
@Roger Moore: Dudebro is like the N-word that white people can use on each other when arguing about a black guy’s fealty to white people’s issues.
PurpleGirl
@pamelabrown53: I also use Avast and I’m not getting any alerts about the site. It sounds like a false alarm.
scav
a) the John Oliver and team’s full ten minutes makes for surprisingly compelling watching, as is. (I’ll admit to worrying it rather goes too far in humanizing a few of the justices though).
b) The Ignorance is Bliss crowd is beginning to become a traffic jam (not just stop and go rubber-neck worthy of a giggle status) and the horses are seriously going to need PTSD therapy.
Dexter
@pamelabrown53: I saw the same Malaware warning from Avast but not from the front page. The warning popped when I opened an open thread but later posts did not show that warning.
Ben Cisco
@Betty Cracker: Hilary Rosen to Carol Costello (TeaNN) on ebola hysteria: “You opened your segment with ’21 Days – Is It Enough?’
raven
In Athens GA early voting is great. They have been jammed since they opened at 8 am and I waited about 30 minutes.
schrodinger's cat
@Roger Moore: Stiff competition, she has it. Isn’t Michelle Bachmann still in Congress?
jl
Slugs would more or less sit still, or move so slowly it wouldn’t make any difference. They would work for some of the court.
Elizabelle
@raven:
Marvelous news. Go, Georgians!
d58826
OT but the Ebola Czar will not appear on bended knee before the House drones on Friday. I’m sure this is the next freakout by the GOOPERS
Mike J
@Dexter:
Probably malware javascript in an ad.
Mike J
Nick Clegg thinks that to only the government, but *anybody* should be allowed to break the law to spy on you, provided they do it in the “public interest.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/20/journalists-public-interest-defence-law-nick-clegg
The lib dems are the party of people who recognize that the Conservatives are evil, but don’t think it’s cool to vote Labour.
Pee Cee
@Punchy:
Suddenly, a ton of conferences get moved to Dallas …
Pee Cee
@gene108:
I could kinda get behind the ideal of a border fence around Texas.
pamelabrown53
@PurpleGirl: Thanks for the feedback, PurpleGirl.
Elizabelle
The Oliver with dogs clip is brilliant.
Hadn’t seen. Thanks much!
Joel Hanes
dogs
Scalia and Thomas re-enactors should be suidae, more for their opinions than for their physiques.
Alito should be played by a small non-otter mustelid.
Kennedy by whichever animal is most afraid of its own shadow and acts least consistently.
Roberts has always seemed to me vulpine, like the characters from Aesop and Joel Chandler Harris.
d58826
@gene108: is that a threat or a promise (I hope)
currants
@pamelabrown53: try updating your firefox–go to Firefox, About Firefox, and update.
Elizabelle
@Punchy:
From your link:
NBC News has 657 stories up about “Ebola in West Africa”, although I’d suspect the majority are from when Ebola reached these shores.
burnspbesq
@raven:
Unlike fear of Ebola, fear of Hice is entirely rational, and people are responding appropriately.
catclub
@Elizabelle: I really wish the Superintendent would ask them to pay for leave for the teacher, and substitutes. A tax on stupid people.
Plus I thought Vivien Leigh was great in Gone With The Wind. How does she look 75 years later?
raven
@burnspbesq: And it’s too bad it won’t mean shit here in greater gooberville.
Elizabelle
@catclub:
I know. I loved that name. Clip wouldn’t load for me, so couldn’t tell you …
burnspbesq
@raven:
Athens is a tiny enclave of (relative) sanity surrounded by the 19th century. Whaddaya gonna do.
gelfling545
@Elizabelle: I wonder how many of those people with their finger jammed on the panic button have had their flu shots for this year. You know, protection from a disease with which they are actually likely to be in contact.
Mnemosyne
@gelfling545:
Not only that, but the flu is a disease that kills on average 30,000 people every year in the United States. But, no, what we really need to do is freak out about the one (1) ebola death that happened in the US.
kc
@srv:
“Vernacular critique?” Sadly, I don’t even think the man who wrote that shit even had his tongue in cheek.
Anyway, why couldn’t that dumbfuck have come up with a non-gender-shaming insult?
Elizabelle
@gelfling545:
Yeah, no flu shots and they’re riding around without seat belts. On cell phones.
Because they don’t want the government telling them what to do.
gossiet
@pamelabrown53: i am also having the same problem but i dont know whether i should report as false positive