george carlin talking about building housing on golf courses. this clip never gets old pic.twitter.com/SGpZhwcxSZ
— Sid The Duck🦆🥣🏴🚩🌻 (@siddtheduck) November 9, 2021
Death penalty
Mark Joseph Stern, “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Finally Found a Religious Objection They Don’t Like,” Slate, November 9, 2021, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/ramirez-collier-execution-religious-liberty-kavanaugh-thomas.html
Uber
There is a new blog post entitled, “Uber and wheelchairs.”
Preetika Rana, “Justice Department Sues Uber Over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People,” Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-sues-uber-over-charging-wait-times-fees-for-physically-disabled-people-11636570208
San Francisco schools
The entire lot of them, the mayor included, should be tossed out on their ears.[1]
Joshua Bote, “Mayor London Breed comes out in support of San Francisco school board recall,” SFGate, November 10, 2021, https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/London-Breed-supports-school-board-recall-16609815.php
Pandemic
Pennsylvania region
Paula Reed Ward, “Pennsylvania court throws out state’s school mask mandate,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 10, 2021, https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-court-throws-out-governors-school-mask-mandate/
Tesla
That whole drama about Elon Musk’s offer on Twitter to sell some Tesla stock triggered a TL;DR (too long, didn’t read) reflex in me, but I figure I need to archive something about it, you know, just in case. If you suffered a similar reflex but are even mildly curious, well, you can probably do a whole lot worse than William Cohan’s article.[2]
The upshot is that Musk probably looked at Tesla’s soaring stock, particularly in the wake[3] of that deal with Hertz that he denies having made,[4] and figured it was time to cash some of his in but didn’t want to accept responsibility for the decision. But actually, it turns out, he’d already scheduled the sale.[5]
William D. Cohan, “Tesla’s Icarus Syndrome,” Puck News, November 10, 2021, https://puck.news/teslas-icarus-syndrome/
Rebecca Elliott, Richard Rubin, and Theo Francis, “Elon Musk Sells Around $5 Billion in Tesla Stock,” Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-sells-1-1-billion-in-tesla-stock-11636589559
- [1]David Benfell, “San Francisco’s political establishment doth protest too much,” Not Housebroken, March 22, 2021, https://disunitedstates.org/2021/03/22/san-franciscos-political-establishment-doth-protest-too-much/↩
- [2]William D. Cohan, “Tesla’s Icarus Syndrome,” Puck News, November 10, 2021, https://puck.news/teslas-icarus-syndrome/↩
- [3]William D. Cohan, “Tesla’s Icarus Syndrome,” Puck News, November 10, 2021, https://puck.news/teslas-icarus-syndrome/↩
- [4]British Broadcasting Corporation, “Elon Musk says Tesla has not signed deal with Hertz,” November 2, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59132512; Emily Glazer and Nora Naughton, “Hertz Will Have to Wait for Teslas, Just Like Other Buyers,” Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-will-have-to-wait-for-teslas-just-like-other-buyers-11636028622; Fred Lambert, “Tesla order could double to 200,000 Model 3s to satisfy deal with Uber, says Hertz CEO,” Electrek, October 28, 2021, https://electrek.co/2021/10/28/tesla-order-double-200000-model-3s-satisfy-deal-uber-hertz-ceo/; Joann Muller, “A big EV push for Uber drivers,” Axios, October 27, 2021, https://www.axios.com/a-big-ev-push-for-uber-drivers-358a720f-f1ba-4c28-9a83-1bb86061c9e4.html↩
- [5]William D. Cohan, “Tesla’s Icarus Syndrome,” Puck News, November 10, 2021, https://puck.news/teslas-icarus-syndrome/; Rebecca Elliott, Richard Rubin, and Theo Francis, “Elon Musk Sells Around $5 Billion in Tesla Stock,” Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-sells-1-1-billion-in-tesla-stock-11636589559↩