The Supremes
1. NPR says that Justice Thomas, who had not said a word during deliberations for a long long time, suddenly found his voice when Scalia passed. Interesting. They also mentioned that the wife of the Justice is a "big-shot" in Tea Party circles.
2. All news agencies are scampering to let the public know about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's bad-mouthing of Mr. Trump, and vice versa. Also interesting.
Mexico vs Mr. Trump
Eli Rosenberg in The New York Times reports on a new Mexican word: Trumpear. It apparently is a play on the Spanish verb trompear, which kind of means to hit or to punch. Mexicans asked about the word's definition say this:
Mexican Reporter: "To hit, to vilify, to polarize, to revile, to terrorize as an electoral strategy."
Mexican Academic: "The act and effect of proposing stupid things that are impossible to realize."
Mexican Technology Businessman: "To do the ridiculous and then contradict yourself afterwards."
Mr. Rosenberg also mentions how Mexicans are using humor against Trump's bellicosity, such as:
Producing Trump Pinatas.
Throwing shoes at him in a video game.
Playing the cup and stick game called balero, with Trump as the cup and parts of his anatomy where the stick goes.
Drawing lots of cartoons of Mr. Trump.
My question: What is happening to Trump's Mexican projects? Are they going forth? Does he have hotels in Mexico. I think he has some in Argentina and other "southern" locations. I could be wrong.
Christian School?
The Week magazine mentions that a Wisconsin Christian school, is insisting on seeing applicants' birth certificates to make sure that none are transgender (you know, students with a "sinful lifestyle.")
Saint John's Lutheran school wants to know about these sinful folks right away, so they will not have to "weed them out" later.
Wisconsin is also the State with a Republican Governor who wants to make sure that all voters have appropriate ID to stop the "rampant voter fraud" in that State. In fact, my reading is that there have been only two cases of voter fraud in Wisconsin for many years.. and those miscreants were Republicans.
Hey, Al Franken, can't you straighten out those misguided folks?
Grand Old Golden Girl (kind of)
Mental Floss magazine mentions that French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty, he wanted her to be golden. However, us cheap Americans did not want to spring for the money required and instead she stayed copper and then green. But one part has a 24-karat gold coat: her torch's flame.
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