Xi opens historic China Party Congress that's expected to cement his rule


https://www.axios.com/2022/10/16/xi-jinping-china-communist-party-congress-third-term



What China looks like after a decade of Xi Jinping's rule


https://www.axios.com/2022/10/15/china-party-congress-2022-xi-jinping-third-term

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Fueling up for NFL RedZone.
(Won’t eat again until ~ 9pm… so it’s gotta be substantial… and salty for, ahem, water retention.) #nobreaks pic.twitter.com/RcnQiRkref

— Scott Hanson (@ScottHanson) October 16, 2022

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Why water retention???

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He does NFL RedZone without going to the bathroom. So 7+ hours.n

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1. Diapers
2. Catheter
3. That's a publicity stunt. I'm cynical.

We're Jewish Berkeley Law Students, Excluded in Many Areas on Campus


https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-jewish-berkeley-law-students-excluded-in-many-areas-on-campus?source=articles&via=rss

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We're Jewish Berkeley Law Students, Excluded in Many Areas on Campus


https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-jewish-berkeley-law-students-excluded-in-many-areas-on-campus?source=articles&via=rss

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I don't want to weigh in on the BDS stuff but there is something I like to say. When I was in law school, I thought the proliferation of student organizations was ridiculous. You have a bunch of type A resume stuffers running around creating all of these low-value organizations that they think future employers would care about. I suspected it was all a waste of time for the law students and that the only beneficiaries for the fringe journals was providing an opportunity for law professors to publish their "research" that no one cared about.

After spending much of my career at big law firms, I can't say anything I believed during law school really changed. I frequently served on recruiting committees and there isn't a single time when I heard a fellow lawyer point to any of these things as interesting or important, with the exception of the main law review journal (and even then only litigators cared).

In a related point, law professors really aren't qualified in the same way most undergrad professors/researchers are. Law profs quite commonly graduated top of their class from a top law school and then worked for a few years at a law firm before becoming a professor. Contrast that with undergrad and grad professors with PhDs, postdocs and real research to qualify them for their positions. Because law profs have to pretend their research matters, they need to get things published in "official" journals of which there are an untold number, staffed by kids who believe that their work will help them get a job but really just serves them up as cannon fodder for cosplaying lawyer profs.

Anyway, reading the list of "student organizations" in the article brought all of this back to me. There are over 100 of these organizations in a school of around 1k students. Ridiculous.

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We're Jewish Berkeley Law Students, Excluded in Many Areas on Campus


https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-jewish-berkeley-law-students-excluded-in-many-areas-on-campus?source=articles&via=rss

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I don't want to weigh in on the BDS stuff but there is something I like to say. When I was in law school, I thought the proliferation of student organizations was ridiculous. You have a bunch of type A resume stuffers running around creating all of these low-value organizations that they think future employers would care about. I suspected it was all a waste of time for the law students and that the only beneficiaries for the fringe journals was providing an opportunity for law professors to publish their "research" that no one cared about.

After spending much of my career at big law firms, I can't say anything I believed during law school really changed. I frequently served on recruiting committees and there isn't a single time when I heard a fellow lawyer point to any of these things as interesting or important, with the exception of the main law review journal (and even then only litigators cared).

In a related point, law professors really aren't qualified in the same way most undergrad professors/researchers are. Law profs quite commonly graduated top of their class from a top law school and then worked for a few years at a law firm before becoming a professor. Contrast that with undergrad and grad professors with PhDs, postdocs and real research to qualify them for their positions. Because law profs have to pretend their research matters, they need to get things published in "official" journals of which there are an untold number, staffed by kids who believe that their work will help them get a job but really just serves them up as cannon fodder for cosplaying lawyer profs.

Anyway, reading the list of "student organizations" in the article brought all of this back to me. There are over 100 of these organizations in a school of around 1k students. Ridiculous.

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I can't speak to the Legal profession as I'm not a lawyer, but I can attest something similar in my industry. College extra-curriculars are a giant lie. If I'm looking for a new employee out of college, I want someone with communication skills, smart/willing to learn, gets their work done and I get along with. The extracurriculars and GPA don't matter to me at all.

THIS IS THE FUTURE THE NRA WANTS: A Florida father and his 15-year-old son shot at a woman who they believed was trying to break into their home. In fact, she was being “a Good Samaritan” and dropping off medicine mistakenly delivered to her home. #flapol https://t.co/yqVhddQX7G

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 19, 2022

“My husband’s favorite is In-N-Out,” says Meghan Markle. “There’s one at the halfway point between L.A. and our neck of the woods. It’s really fun to go through the drive-thru and surprise them. They know our order.” https://t.co/YDDQTTwgg9 pic.twitter.com/xLADaMFqqU

— Variety (@Variety) October 19, 2022

From a Commanders spokesperson, regarding the check that bounced for the fan who won the 50/50 raffle in Week 1:https://t.co/RVjdBq6yDR pic.twitter.com/GyeWIH6I1v

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 19, 2022

Damn. Liberal media.

Tomorrow's birthdays: Kamala Harris (48), Snoop Dogg (51), Danny Boyle (66), Viggo Mortensen (64), A$AP Ferg (34)

— AP Planner (@AP_Planner) October 19, 2022

“Will Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?” In a gag, The Daily Star, a left-leaning British tabloid, has been tracking it live. https://t.co/uDBAskgM8n

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 19, 2022

"We can't believe that you have lettuce into your hearts." pic.twitter.com/OsV4HBEy0d

— Daily Star (@dailystar) October 19, 2022

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Damn. Liberal media.

Tomorrow's birthdays: Kamala Harris (48), Snoop Dogg (51), Danny Boyle (66), Viggo Mortensen (64), A$AP Ferg (34)

— AP Planner (@AP_Planner) October 19, 2022

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I believe Vice President Harris will be 58 tomorrow, not 48. Or am I missing something about your post?

It must be time for a Browns win... #ClevelandBrowns #NYJvsCLE #dawgs pic.twitter.com/xtyBWS9oRG

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) September 21, 2018

Christian Secor, who stormed into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and led a campus group at UCLA with white supremacist ties, was sentenced to 42 months in prison instead of the the nearly five-year sentence requested by prosecutors. https://t.co/h709S7pfYt

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 20, 2022

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Damn. Liberal media.

https://twitter.com/AP_Planner

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I believe Vice President Harris will be 58 tomorrow, not 48. Or am I missing something about your post?

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Did you say Larry Dogg?

Comedians Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle plan to co-headline a show at the Chase Center on Dec. 11. Pre-sale begins at 10am today with the access code "PUMPKIN
Axios SF

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Damn. Liberal media.

Tomorrow's birthdays: Kamala Harris (48), Snoop Dogg (51), Danny Boyle (66), Viggo Mortensen (64), A$AP Ferg (34)

— AP Planner (@AP_Planner) October 19, 2022

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I believe Vice President Harris will be 58 tomorrow, not 48. Or am I missing something about your post?

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Geez. 24 hours later, and the tweet is still up. The Associated Press really does suck these days. Or perhaps it's a conspiracy to de-age the VP.

Larry Kudlow on Fox Business 9/23/22: "The new British prime minister, Liz Truss, has laid out a terrific supply-side economic growth plan which looks a lot like the basic thrust of Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America plan.” pic.twitter.com/SlW349niNx

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) October 20, 2022

Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 20, 2022

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Damn. Liberal media.

Tomorrow's birthdays: Kamala Harris (48), Snoop Dogg (51), Danny Boyle (66), Viggo Mortensen (64), A$AP Ferg (34)

— AP Planner (@AP_Planner) October 19, 2022

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I believe Vice President Harris will be 58 tomorrow, not 48. Or am I missing something about your post?

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Geez. 24 hours later, and the tweet is still up. The Associated Press really does suck these days. Or perhaps it's a conspiracy to de-age the VP.

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Maybe it's because 48 is totally believable when she's standing next to the President.

Thank God it's #pizzathursday... pic.twitter.com/s3dyVP3a9J

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) September 13, 2018

Stanford is hosting an Academic Freedom Conference next month. My request to attend has been denied: "We are not inviting the media to our conference in order to foment a more open discussion."https://t.co/Dv39lSp4mP pic.twitter.com/IstLSdMKRF

— Stephanie M. Lee (@stephaniemlee) October 19, 2022

Landscapers discover car buried in backyard of $15-million Bay Area mansion https://t.co/RdJNPCKpa0

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 21, 2022

https://morris.umn.edu/about/institutional-effectiveness-and-research/data-resources

Steve Sviggum, University of Minnesota Board of Regents member and former GOP Speaker of the MN House, is under fire for asking if the U of M Morris campus has become "too diverse."

"I'm on thin ice, I understand. At 72 years old, I say things ... It gives you a little freedom." pic.twitter.com/ahR1pvXxfY

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) October 21, 2022

A domestic abuse survivor who won a landmark Supreme Court case this summer saying she didn't have to return her son to his allegedly abusive father was found dead in her home this week. @kylietcheung reports: https://t.co/vViqouYh6g

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) October 21, 2022

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New York Congressional Candidate Releases Porn Video Featuring Himself https://t.co/sT6R7mNEKR pic.twitter.com/dlp2j6010r

— Jezebel (@Jezebel) October 14, 2022

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WHO'S YOUR DADDY NICOLE SAGE?

A fat, disgusting, big-nosed, bald guy that doesnt bother wearing a condom.
Skank meets skank.

Don't think this video will "win" him any votes.

An Orange Buffoon subpoenaed by the Jan. 6th Committee to Testify.

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Damn. Liberal media.

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It's concerning that this took 2 days to correct.

An earlier tweet from @AP_Planner misstating the age of Vice President Kamala Harris has been deleted. She turned 58 on her birthday yesterday, not 48 as previously stated.

— AP Planner (@AP_Planner) October 21, 2022

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She lasted six weeks.
lol

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She lasted six weeks.
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Luckily for the publisher, the book hasn't been released. It was supposed to hit bookshelves on December 8.

They'll have time to rewrite it use a new title.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-20/liz-truss-quitting-sends-biographers-to-rewrite-book-on-prime-minister

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"Out of the blue and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."

-Neil Young

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She lasted six weeks.
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Luckily for the publisher, the book hasn't been released. It was supposed to hit bookshelves on December 8.

They'll have time to rewrite it use a new title.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-20/liz-truss-quitting-sends-biographers-to-rewrite-book-on-prime-minister

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They can retitle it:

"She didnt last as long as a head of lettuce"

That was also one of my favorite Neil albums. I don't know if you saw the solo tour of Computer Age, but I thought it was one of the most amazing performances I had ever seen. Cow Palace.
CSNY. What an incredible assembly of musicians and writers. Stills & Young especially IMHO

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That was also one of my favorite Neil albums. I don't know if you saw the solo tour of Computer Age, but I thought it was one of the most amazing performances I had ever seen. Cow Palace.
CSNY. What an incredible assembly of musicians and writers. Stills & Young especially IMHO

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It didn't get any more fun than being young, drunk and stoned at Winterland in the early 1970's and hearing Neil playing Cinnamon Girl on his Gibson Flying V as loud as he could. I saw him there many times.



My buddy took this picture of him at the Day on the Green in Oakland in July, 1974 that I attended.



*I remember being very disappointed he cut his hair so short. It seemed like a crew cut at the time.

A timeline:

March 27: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars. Many called it the ugliest moment in Oscar history. But within the next week, there were tweets and articles about how, actually, the ugliest moment in Oscar history was in 1973 when Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather accepted the Oscar on Marlon Brando's behalf and was booed and John Wayne had to be restrained by six security guards.




August 15: The Academy announced it has apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather (actually apologized to her in June) for the 1973 incident and also announced they would have an evening with her.

Movie Academy Apologizes To Sacheen Littlefeather Over 1973 Oscars – Read The Letter https://t.co/28O5L52gzV

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 15, 2022

August 23: The Los Angeles Times runs an article essentially debunking the John Wayne incident.

RIP Sacheen Littlefeather, at 75. My column debunking a myth about her appearance at the 1973 Oscars: https://t.co/PAqlfpBHI5

— Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) October 3, 2022

September 17: The Academy hosts "An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather" where she repeats the John Wayne thing (to be fair to her, it seems like she always couches it in saying she was told about it).




October 2: Sacheen Littlefeather dies at age 75.

Sacheen Littlefeather Dies: Native American Actress Who Declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar Was 75 https://t.co/jwoic70rTo

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 3, 2022

October 22: The San Francisco Chronicle publishes this story:

(Also, I learned from the article that Sacheen posed for Playboy, if any of you want to look that up.)

Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native American icon. But according to her biological sisters, Littlefeather isn’t Native at all. https://t.co/yQWB3yqbV8

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 22, 2022

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Stanford is hosting an Academic Freedom Conference next month. My request to attend has been denied: "We are not inviting the media to our conference in order to foment a more open discussion."https://t.co/Dv39lSp4mP pic.twitter.com/IstLSdMKRF

— Stephanie M. Lee (@stephaniemlee) October 19, 2022

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People sometimes want to explore concepts and meet and greet without having it picked apart and broadcast. Understandable.