Microsoft AI Brings Its Own Beer to Quincy
More states are enacting or considering new “Bring Your Own Beer, er, Power” laws requiring giant AI data centers to pay for their own energy rather than sticking grid costs onto local utility ratepayers. Can Microsoft be trusted to show the way?
Newsom’s Neurotic Free Speech Suppression Law
Newsom’s “Privacy for immigration providers” purports to just expand California’s “Safe at Home” law. But it’s civil liability for & criminalization of online journalism based on some INTENT to cause harm leaves it vulnerable to constitutional attack…
Must Atheist Suck Up LA’s Historical Cross?
LA’s Mexican Americans should rest easy tho an atheist sued the city to crucify its 97-yr-old Cross & Nativity display. MSM is hyping the case as a threat to all religious displays on public property. But a judge dismissed it & 9th Circuit will likely too ...
Old Fashioned Muckraking Eats Modern Law
A “neighborly” old lady once got away with fleecing GOAT lawyer Abe Lincoln’s hometown. True story. But is Missou grandma’s cooking burritos for 300 neighbors now clipping concerned health bureaucrats whom her mouthpiece says have “gone amuck”?
Nike Trips Over Woke, Bud Light Still Broke
When Bud Light and Ben & Jerry’s went mega-woke I lost my taste for the products. So, it’s little wonder here that Nike stock has s(t)unk to a 12-year low after a decade of left-wing activism, from Colin Kaepernick to Dylan Mulvaney …
Colorado River’s Nuclear Powered Light Bulb
Does lightning have to strike our Westerners to consider the most practical solution to their chronically high energy costs may be nuclear power? Yet, they obsess over “innovative solutions” as the Colorado River is shrinking & its dam(s) hold back thin air ...
Flock Surveillance Law or Will Old Bird Fly?
Since cameras & cops are everywhere today, won’t “Flocks” fly when Sup Ct gets to this new technology bird? Case law suggests they’ll pass Constitutional muster, but only IF their data’s life & extent are limited so police can’t abuse them...
Aykroyd’s 2d City Once 2d to None
Chicago went from no potholes to pot. Dan Akroyd might say that about LA. In a resurfaced podcast, he lamented “medieval times” there. Living next to his 70s shows at 2nd City theatre, I’d remind Dan of one big difference: Daley & Son…
South Siders Called Me “Butternut” for a Reason
Chicago promised “food equity” & its poor folks got empty shelves to salivate over. Having worked years ago as a Butternut Bread driver in the city’s impoverished South Side neighborhoods to help pay for law school tuition, at least folks got half a loaf …
Why Are Car Crash Claim Payouts Heading South?
You may be in “Good Hands” with your car insurer. Q is whether it has you by the b**** when you get in a car crash. Majors now deny claims 45% of the time compared to 35% 10 yrs ago. Law requires coverage. But do you get the “backstop” as billed?
