Reading about COVID again, I remembered this Camus novel I read while it was going on back in 2020. It’s a spectacular novel. It describes the spread of a disease, but its real strength is its description of various human personalities reacting to the catastrophe.
Haley Stevens stumbles when asked if she is attending Abdul El-Sayed's unity rally:
NBC: You're not going?
STEVENS: “This is for the ticket. I’m supporting ‘em…you know I’m gonna go do whatever…look, it’s not about that.”
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“Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.”
-Lori Deschene
I think "federal judges should not simultaneously run PA/lobbying firms" is a reasonable expectation to have. It doesn't matter if Mascott inherited it from her husband, he died three years ago and she had plenty of time to disentangle herself & divest it before taking office.
@ishapiro According to the article, she didn't try to immediately "wind it down." She tried to actively run it and ran it into the ground. That's not proper for a sitting Circuit Judge...
Daniel Day-Lewis found the voice for There Will Be Blood by listening to recordings of John Huston (born on this day in 1906).
He wasn’t doing a full imitation…
But once you hear it side by side, you can’t unhear it.