Busted
According to an editorial at nypost.com, academic freedom has taken another hit. “Michigan State University leaders forced physics professor Stephen Hsu to give up his position as vice president of research and innovation after he touted a study that found police aren’t more likely to shoot African-Americans.” He is accused of “scientific racism.” What if the findings are true?
As if we need any more proof of the state of politics, from a headline at foxnews.com: “One-third of Toledo’s City Council arrested on bribery, extortion charges.” I wonder if Corporal Klinger still lives there. Does one laugh or weep at such news?
Encouraging news on the economic front, as jobs seem to be coming back faster than expected. Let’s see how the left spins it.
Here’s a wow headline from foxnews.com: “European police crack encrypted phones network, arrest hundreds in major cyber sting.” Here’s the gist of the article, edited by yours truly: EncroChat sold its “cryptotelephones” for around 1000 euros each and offered subscriptions with worldwide coverage for 1500 euros for six months. They were used by 60,000 worldwide. Once authorities got inside the network, it was like having undercover moles among the criminals. 746 were arrested and more than $68 million seized along with 77 firearms and more than two tons of drugs. Kudos. I wonder if lawyers will argue that it was a breach of civil liberties.
Last night, Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran Sam Peckinpah’s oddball western, The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), perhaps my least favorite of his canon. Unlike most of his blood and guts epics, it’s quirky, humorous. Its best aspect is the amazing cast, Jason Robards and the delightful Stella Stevens in the leads and, in support. David Warner, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, R. G. Armstrong, Gene Evans, and three names film fans may not recognize but whose faces they will. Here’s Peter Whitney, who amassed 142 credits before a heart attack took him at 55 in 1972:
And here’s Vaughn Taylor, who has 191 titles listed under his name at IMDb. He passed away at 72 in 1983:
And here’s Kathleen Freeman, who has 298 titles listed under her name, and who worked until the end of her life in 2001. She was 82 and in the Broadway production for The Full Monty, for which she received a Tony nomination.
My thanks to Bus Driver, who bought Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, Book 1) by Ken Follett and Love You More: A Dectective D. D. Warren Novel by Lisa Gardner; and to the gentleman who purchased five self-help books; and to the woman who selected a book in Russian; and to the local home attendant who donated six works of non-fiction on behalf of the Braniac Brothers.
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