Monday Morning Tab Clearing
For your consideration.

- Via Politico: States line up for fight to go first in Democrats’ next presidential primary
- Via the NY Post: GOP senators want TV rating ‘update’ amid LGBTQ character push
- Via The Atlantic: What Happened to Jon Stewart?
I watched the first episode of Stewart’s new show when it first dropped and it struck me as a more boring, less rigorous version of a 60 Minutes segment, just with profanity. It wasn’t entertaining and it wasn’t particularly informative.
Beyond that, the article is fairly inciteful and more than a bit depressing in its resisting of the classic Stewart v. Tucker Carlson confrontation.
How restrictions on syringe programs led to a severe HIV outbreak in West Virginia
Stupid is as stupid does.
Pro-Life my ass.
@OzarkHillbilly: WV gets to do what it wants. Perhaps Teague should go do good somewhere that wants good done.
Consider my gob to be thoroughly smacked:
To quote the immortal Jesse Pinkman, “Science bitches!”
He disappeared and the medium moved on. The Daily Show, just didn’t happen, what worked and didn’t developed overtime. Stewart essentially leaving the business, also lost the regular cues and reminders of where and who the audience is. He returns with a Big Idea, and the audience wonders, who’s John Stewart, whatever and this sucks.
Oh brother, only the top 2 posts show on my screen when OTB displays and I thought this was the open forum. My apologies. Steven.
@OzarkHillbilly: Now reposted where they belong, feel free to delete.
eta: not that you need my permission
@OzarkHillbilly: So we’re going to create viruses that shield themselves from detection from our immune system? And we are, in the short term, going to use that technology for good.
What could go wrong?
@Tony W: Valid question.
Are you all aware someone is using “Outside the Beltway” as a name for their podcast?
https://outsidethebeltway.libsyn.com/
@Shepard Wilson:
Titles can’t be copyrighted in book publishing. I don’t know how it works with podcasts.
@Shepard Wilson: Thanks for the heads up. We were unaware.
@CSK: Good question. I am pretty sure we couldn’t start up a “New York Times Podcast” but, who knows?
@Steven L. Taylor:
Ooo! Ohh! Mr. Kotter! Mr. Kotter! I know! 🙂
You could not. Because “New York Times” is trademarked, and there would be significant likelihood of market confusion. You’d get your ass sued off. 🙂
@CSK:
I don’t think there’s much to do without a trademark.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yep. It’s so funny that pro-lifers live in such a bubble they don’t realize the people living next door will be (1) inconvenienced by this decision no matter what, it’s only a matter of how badly they are screwed and (2) no longer willing to let such BS go. This decision will mess up people’s insurance, workload and place, social relationships and access to healthcare even if they or their loved ones never need an abortion; you can’t add a ton of new patients to the healthcare system and take a larger percentage of workers out of play all at once without having it echo up and down society.
His neighbors are probably wealthy and in high level or prestigious jobs overseeing employees. Think it’s irritating that you can’t keep workers and cost are high due to the pandemic? It’s about to get a whole lot worse for management types so buckle up for the HR nightmare that’s coming. Even if they are conservative and MAGA AF (likely not from that quote but still), the effect this will have on business is reason enough to be protesting outside his door.
@Steven L. Taylor: While single book titles cannot be copyrighted or trademarked, a book series (Animorphs, anyone?), a newspaper (The New York Times) or a blog like this can be subject to trademark (more technically, service mark). You have service mark rights simply by using the mark consistently for this blog service and you could legally exclude confusingly similar uses. Federal registration is a separate matter, but might be a good idea and would definitely improve you ability to enforce your rights and to fend off potential competitors and copycats.