Lazy8 wrote: 
a few thoughts

probably more to this than we know

in the past brink lindsey has spoken about passionate disagreements/debate between their peeps

in any event, i would not have fired will for that foolish comment alone

we all have made them and it will probably happen again

i would have encouraged him to apologize to directly to pence and biden asap

and then apologize to his employer and readers/followers

cancelling someone over silly speech or orwellian wrong think is wrong and maybe even dangerous

jerry taylor should reevaluate this decision

 Lazy8 wrote:
 
Twitter works like a honey pot getting people to publicly say things they might otherwise not.

Cancel Culture Comes for Will Wilkinson

The Niskanen Center fired a senior staffer for tweeting an offensive joke about Mike Pence, and hypocrisies abound.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State

(NYT link if you are counting your article access)

 haresfur wrote: 
Seeing more and more of this.  Doubt it has anything to do with increased Muslim influence.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
 

The French, of all people!

Banned from the Musée d’Orsay for a daring cleavage.

 sirdroseph wrote:

"The opposition National Party has argued the election should be delayed as restrictions on campaigning mean Ms Ardern had an unfair advantage."

Under their system elections don't happen on a regular schedule

New Zealand Postpones Election Due to New COVID-19 Cases

 haresfur wrote:
 

What, no Covid19 near you?

The Ayn Rand Institute. The nonprofit pushes its namesake author's resistance to government aid and got a loan  of between $350,000 and $1 million

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
I'm a doctor in the ER, you don't need a helmet, trust me. We are open 24/7 and could really use the business.

Met an ER doc this weekend at the ski hill. I'd met him before but could only remember his last name.

"Jack," he says, "...my wife's name is Jill; that usually helps people remember."
I stalled for a couple of beats before my brain told my mouth to say "...and here you are without a helmet!"

 R_P wrote:

In separate cases in civil court, the nursing home, the mother’s court-appointed guardian and the guardian’s lawyers are all suing Turk to collect money they say she owes them as the representative of her mother’s estate. The total amount owed according to the three lawsuits is more than $320,000.

(...)

“In a lot of ways this seems like a witch hunt against me and I think a lot of it is because of my political affiliation,” said Turk.

 Manbird wrote:
 

"It's those welfare queens!"

The former Mrs. Florida 2016, a conservative media pundit, has been sentenced to a month in jail for stealing her late mother’s Social Security checks instead of spending the money on nursing home care.

Don’t drink and drive, U.S. legislator says. Then he was arrested on New Year’s Eve