Inflammation increases heart attack risk: WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/heart-attack-health-inflammation-drug-353dabf5 . We’ve known this for some time. However, this article discusses combining therapies for a multi-pronged attack against inflammation.
Justice Kagan calls for Supreme Court Code of Conduct: https://www.aol.com/code-conduct-elena-kagan-calls-141139500.html . The next Court term starts in early October. So Chief Justice Roberts needs to stop delaying and get a code in place.
WSJ: Status of UAW strike: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/uaw-strike-labor-negotiations-5-things-323de258 . Ford settlement in Canada: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/fords-canadian-factory-workers-in-line-for-15-wage-bump-under-tentative-deal-ec2d218a .
San Francisco’s real estate bust: WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/watching-the-real-estate-bust-from-the-streets-of-san-francisco-9708bb91 . Among the startling statistics here, Embarcadero Square, purchased for $245 million in 2018, is for sale for $90 million.
WSJ: Ukraine’s small advances in the south: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/fields-fortified-by-russia-become-pivotal-to-ukraines-counteroffensive-756064b0 .
Gagging on OJ: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4219119-doj-gag-order-trump-jan-6-case-puts-judge-tough-spot/ . This article is dead wrong. The judge, jury and prosecutors are entitled to serve without being threatened. Here, the defendant commands a vast army of zombies who actually believe what he says and could carry out his threats, as we saw on January 6. Therefore, the gag order should issue, and it should bar threatening or defamatory statements. Also, the order should say that it will be interpreted broadly as concerns potentially dangerous speech, and that violation could be remedied by a broader order, fines, or imprisonment.
Further, if violations could taint the jury pool, a potential remedy is acceleration of the trial date, in order to limit further damage to the jury pool. Similar treatment would apply to any other defendant. Also, this does not violate OJ’s First Amendment rights, which are not unlimited and do not extend to interfering with the fair administration of justice. And by the way, there is already an intimidation ban against OJ in the Georgia case.
Cows’ effect on the climate: https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/bill-gates-agriculture-climate/ . Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, which is why cows have such an outsized effect on global warming. While the article discusses cows as a meat source, it understates the problem by ignoring the cows in dairy production. Those cows produce as much or more methane than meat cows.
Big day in the Pac-12: No. 10 Oregon crushes No. 19 Colorado, 42-6; No. 11 Utah beats No. 22 UCLA 14-7; and our local CBS affiliate ran this chyron: “No. 21 Washington State beats No. 14 Oregon State 38-35. Champions of the Pac-2?”