Mike’s Blog Round-Up

"I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers." -- Henry Drummond, Inherit the Wind.
By driftglass — July 23, 2025

100 years ago this week, Clarence Darrow faced down the enemies of Reason, Justice and Modernity in a stifling hot courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee. He lost that trial -- the Scopes trial -- in court, because there was never any way to win it in that court. But thanks to oratory of Darrow, the acid pen of H.L Mencken and the new media of radio history records that Scopes was vindicated in the much wider court of national public opinion.

I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere.

emptywheel: Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump “Space” to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem.

The Rude Pundit: Hey, Democrats: It's Okay to Be Outraged That a Rapist Might Have Committed More Rapes.

Lawyers, Guns & Money: Trump demands Kennedy Center Opera House be named after his current wife, or lose all federal funding.

Attention space nerds! 'Chaos' reigns beneath the ice of Jupiter moon Europa, James Webb Space Telescope reveals.

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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