Writes Mark Walsh, in "Watching environmental law get eclipsed by Skrmetti" (SCOTUSblog).
Later, getting back to that: "The opinion has several references to a 1907 case, Smithers v. Smith. Unless I have imagined it, I thought I heard the chief justice refer to that case in his summary as involving a 'Mr. Smithers.' That, of course, has me back to 'The Simpsons,' where Waylon Smithers is the assistant to the owner of the nuclear plant. He is also a likely beneficiary of the Bostock decision...."
Bostock is "the 2020 decision that said Title VII covered sexual orientation and gender identity in employment." I haven't watched "The Simpsons" in decades, so I had to look up whether the fictional character Waylon Smithers is to be considered gay. I'm told that over the years, it was heavily implied that he was gay and that he officially came out as gay in 2015.
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"I haven't watched "The Simpsons" in decades, so I had to look up whether the fictional character Waylon Smithers is to be considered gay."
People have known he was gay since 1996 at least.
Transgender? Transenergy. Renewable, unsustainable, intermittent currents converted by The Green Blight and a political proclivity to urbane settlement to corral capital and control in Democratic regimes.
Smithers isn't just the assistant to "the owner of the nuclear plant." He's assistant to Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns.
He's also gay.
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/96613/smithers-v-smith/ don't see the relevance,
Incidentally, it has now been confirmed that there are natural sources that emit carbon dioxide with the same signature of anthropogenic hydrocarbon combustion. What came first: warning or emission? And who's on second?
As for nuclear generated energy, it's not only one of the safest, but most efficient and Green... green means of conversion and energy production, with several cycles producing variable amounts of low and high emissivity and toxicity that can be recycled, reused, or sequestered, and passive, integral reaction moderators that mitigate the risk associated with progressive processes.
One day there needs to be the equivalent of Nuremberg trials for all those who opposed nuclear power.
Can I assume that Mr. Walsh also had some logical arguments beyond sniggering about The Simpsons?
I checked. No, none of his own, not even half an argument.
It's good to see you commenting again Buwaya. I've enjoyed your perspectives in past posts.
Indeed, I tried to get a hold of you, some time ago
"Can I assume that Mr. Walsh also had some logical arguments beyond sniggering about The Simpsons?"
Bet he considers himself a "public intellectual."
Smithers was written as Gay, but never explicitly so. We would see him with his Barbie Doll collection, show him dreaming of a Naked Mr. Burns flying through his bedroom window, and see him on a cruise vacation with an all-male conga line.
Although, the snappy dress and bowtie should have been enough.
Better than the Simpsons is Reynolds and the rest of the aluminum industry.
In the 50s and 60s they started getting a lot of heat because of pollution from Flouride. Flouride is a particularly nasty
byproduct of aluminum production.
I would love to have been in the meeting where someone raised their hand and said "let's get rid of our Flouride by having g people drink it. No, seriously, hear me out...."
And that is why we have Flouride in our water today.
John Henry
I understand the argument that Flouride may prevent tooth decay. But if that were really the goal, it would be directed at teeth via toothpaste, mouthwash, topical treatment.
I would not need to shower in flouridated water, drink it, water my lawn with it etc.
John Henry
I would like to follow the thoughts about nuclear energy. Here are some facts you might not know.
The US has the most nuclear reactors, but we have none under construction right now.
We are debating, China is building. Many nuclear power plants in other countries are using Chinese designs. None are using US designs.
The page in the link shows two charts. The second one down the page shows a count of reactors in each country. It shows working ones, mothballed ones, and ones under construction. The US leads the world in mothballed plants. China leads in plants under construction.
https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryStatisticsLandingPage.aspx
Not much of a blogger.
Kavanaugh starts in 1954 with the passage of the Atomic Energy Act, which allowed for private commercial nuclear power plants. Today, more than 50 such plants produce electricity for American homes, generating almost 20 percent of electricity in the nation, he says.
Who knew? (Begley, I know you knew.)
Given the absence of any significant hazardous events in, what, 40 years? why aren't we building more nuclear capacity?
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Can I assume that Mr. Walsh also had some logical arguments beyond sniggering about The Simpsons?
I checked. No, none of his own, not even half an argument.
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Can we safely assume that you are assistant to one Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky?
Walsh is SCOTUSblog's "courtroom" guy. He doesn't analyze the Court's decisions, he just keeps track of its goings-on on a day-to-day basis .
If you want legal analyses others at SCOTUSblog can provide you with them. Did you even look?
Agree with the comments regarding the SCOTUSblog. I'm sort of surprised that he didn't tell us what kind of coffee he got at Starbucks before heading over to the court, because that seems to be the sort of thing he thinks we need to know.
Jeez, effinay. Lighten up, Francis.
Why would anyone care what the "courtroom guy" has to say about the reading of opinions? (Apparently Althouse does, but I think she's trying to make a Simpsons joke or a comment on social acceptance of gays).
Jeez, effinay. Lighten up, Francis.
Why would anyone care what the "courtroom guy" has to say about the reading of opinions? (Apparently Althouse does, but I think she's trying to make a Simpsons joke or a comment on social acceptance of gays).
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SCOTUSblog is a quick and easy way for * lawyers *to keep track of the state-of-play .
Here's what they say about themselves:
"SCOTUSblog generally reports on merits cases before the court at least three times: before argument, after argument, and after the decision. We note all of the paid cert petitions that raise a legal question we believe may interest the justices; we give additional coverage to particularly significant petitions and emergency applications. For the merits cases and the petitions we cover, we provide access to all the briefs.
On each day that the court announces decisions, we host our popular live blog feature with real-time breaking news coverage. Readers join us from around the world to have their questions answered and hear first how the justices rule."
So there's yer anyone who would care. Althouse can, if she wishes, tell us whether she visits the site.
As for ME lightening up, say what? Two of you thought fit to sneer at the guy for reminding us that a fictional Smithers was portrayed as gay, then accuse that guy of pretending to be a public intellectual, then that he's not much of a blogger.
If you had the wit to actually learn about his website, you wouldn't look like such yahoos. But...too late!
"The China Syndrome"
Best pro-nuke propaganda film ever!
Even if it does star the excrable Hanoi Jane fonda
John Henry
Per Wikipedia:
"In "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", when the episode host, Troy McClure is answering viewer questions, and one that is asked is "What is the real deal with Mr. Burns's assistant Smithers? You know what I'm talking about." A montage of various clips that shows Smithers's lust for Mr. Burns follows, and in the end, McClure says "as you can see, the real deal with Waylon Smithers is that he's Mr. Burns's assistant. He's in his early forties, is unmarried, and currently resides in Springfield. Thanks for writing!"
@effinayright - I didn't ask for analysis, though I can see why it might look that way. Making fun of someone who thinks that his random associations about TV cartoons is part of his reporting about what happened at SCOTUS seems fair to me. These were sly editorial comments about justices.
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