Oooh, I’ll be using this one in a legal ethics seminar for sure.

A sicko American Airlines flight attendant (Estes Carter Thompson III, above) allegedly hid a camera under the First Class toilet seat and filmed the nether regions of several little girls between the ages of 7 and 14 during a seven-month span last year. One of the victims, aged 14, spotted a phone’s camera flash underneath the toilet seat, which was covered by tape. She took a cell phone photo of it and showed it to her mother. As you might expect, the girls’ parents were perplexed.

A lawsuit ensued by the parents of another victim, age 9. The American Airlines lawyers came up with a true “Hail Mary” defense theory, stating in court filings, “Any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by plaintiff’s own fault and negligence, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.”

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Kerry Kennedy, one of RFK’s gazillion offspring, is proving that not only does bias make you stupid, bias plus Trump Derangement makes you a lousy sister.

She has allowed herself to be co-opted by the Biden campaign to undermine her own brother’s maverick Presidential run. It is planning on using Kerry Kennedy and other family members to condemn RFK Jr. in swing states if he makes it onto their ballots (despite the DNC’s conscerted efforts to block him. You know: democracy!) “I’ve told the Biden campaign that I’ll campaign wherever they want me to go,” she told the New York Times. For its part, the campaign says, “We’re honored to have the Kennedys’ support, and we look forward to working with them to spread the message on the campaign trail about how the president is carrying on the Kennedy legacy,” in the words of Lauren Hitt, a campaign spokeswoman.

How exactly would Joe Biden carry on “the Kennedy legacy”? Youth and vigah? Dazzling exchanges with reporters? Throbbing charisma? Bedding young women instead of just sniffing them? Exciting oratory? Solidarity with campus protests? Maybe Hitt means the legacy of Joe Kennedy Sr. when he was a doddering fixer for his scandal-addicted sons.

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It was Prof. Mayer’s head-exploding op-ed for USA Today that made me start thinking about how often alleged “authorities” stick their whole legs down their own throats. Unlike the late Cleveland Amory’s misfire regarding the Pythons, Mayer’s “expert” analysis of the current 2024 Presidential election scenario qualifies as malpractice, an abuse of authority triggered by an epic case of the Bias Makes You Stupid Disease. It is also another of what promises to be an accelerating stampede of panicked outbursts from the Trump Deranged in the news media and academia.

The headline signals this guy’s lack of perspective and objectivity immediately: “How Biden Can Save America From Trump’s Return To The White House: Drop Out of the Race.” The claim that Trump is an existential danger to democracy is a dishonest, despicable Democratic party talking point concocted on the theory that fear-mongering is the party’s best chance. It did the same thing in 2016, you may recall: I’ll never forget speaking with a formerly rational lawyer friend in Massachusetts who was near tears after the election, terrified for her year-old baby’s future, certain that the Orange Devil would start World War III. Funny: in four years, Trump didn’t get the U.S involved in any wars at all. Biden, however…

The screed continues with equally batty analysis, denial and gaslighting:

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Substantially correct, but rhetorically sloppy and needless inflammatory….in other words, typical of Trump.

Martha Pollack announced earlier this month that she will step down as the president of Cornell, running neck-and neck-and -neck-and neck with the other Ivy League indoctrination camps in seeding anti-white hate and anti-Semitism. She championed the Democratic Party led race-focused DEI initiative at Cornell in the wake of a non-racial incident in which a bad cop hastened the demise of a life-time petty perp and addict overdosing and resisting arrest in Minnesota. This, in turn, led to targeting of Jewish and pro-Israel students, to such an extent that Jewish students felt unsafe and threatened on their own campus; one student was charged with seriously threatening a Jewish massacre. Pollack has been weak and enabling toward the pro-terrorists even for an Ivy League president, resulting in terrible publicity for the school and many millions in lost donations.If she was “doing what she thought was right,” she didn’t even have the guts to follow-through on her misguided agenda: perhaps seeing the proverbial writing on the wall, she’s quitting before she can be fired.

But in the grand tradition of weenies and cowards everywhere, now that she is immune from consequences, Pollack took one last, disgusting swipe at her victims, praising the Hamas-supporting demonstrators in an email released on May 14. As Cornell professor William Jacobsen correctly noted, the message  amounted to gaslighting. “The entire statement was demeaning and insulting, except to the anti-Israel protesters,” he wrote. It praised the students who threatened the Jews on campus and expressed “gratitude” that the demonstrations weren’t worse. The missive to the campus read in part:

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At his weekly news conference two days ago, talking about New York City’s shortage of lifeguards for its public pools as the simmer months approach, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said,

“How do we have a large body of people that are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards? The only obstacle is that we won’t give them the right to work to become a lifeguard.”

He really said this. He did! I wouldn’t lie to you about something like that. That’s what the mayor of New York City said, and he wasn’t joking.

After the predictable response (well, Adams apparently is incapable of predicting it, but almost everyone with their cerebrum installed properly would be), the mayor’s attempt at “walking back” his idiocy only raised more doubts about his intellectual fitness (or rather, eliminated them). Adams suggested that illegal immigrants (he called them “migrants,” which doesn’t change what they are) could fill other key jobs in the city, in nursing and food service , for example. “Why people want to just hang onto swimming when I listed that we need to allow people to work,” he said. “Let people work.”

• Yup, let’s allow people to break our laws and defy our immigration procedures, and be rewarded for it. Good plan! Why should any American respect our laws when elected leaders like Adams take that position? Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) asked: “Do other Democrats like Joe Biden think breaking the law is qualification for employment in our country?” Why yes, Marsha, they do.
• Somebody explain to the mayor that attaching any skill or characteristic to an entire group is at the core of stereotyping and bigotry. May I assume that Adams, as a black man, has great rhythm and can play a mean banjo?
• Q: Since apparently wading or swimming across the Rio Grande is regarded as a career credential, why don’t our DEI obsessed Ivy League colleges extend swimming scholarships to these talented and buoyant “visitors”?
• A: Because “not drowning” doesn’t make someone an “excellent swimmer.”

The signature significance test: Would any public figure who isn’t an idiot say this in a public forum, even once, without intending to be funny?

I don’t think so.

Remember, Donald Trump and the Republicans are a threat to democracy….