You will note that the majority opinion is unsigned.
I miss the days when the Supreme Court had an element of suspense and mystery to it. There would be the oral arguments and then six months of silence until Decision Day, when there occasionally would be a surprise twist ending to our Very Special Episode. As should be obvious to everyone who paid attention during the oral arguments over the president's vaccine mandates, Thursday's predictably idiotic decision was a foregone conclusion based on predictably insulting assaults on reason and common sense from the carefully constructed conservative majority. It's time to shed the blues and paint it black. These durable, insulating options will get you through the colder months with ease. It was early, for a musician. For any musician, and certainly for Lionel Richie, who in January 1985 was one of the top pop stars in the world. His signature hit of the past twelve months, for crying out loud—number one on the Billboard charts—was called "All Night Long (All Night)." He'd spent much of the past year on the road—New York, Hartford, Detroit, Vegas, Kansas City, Vancouver, Oakland, freaking Boise . . . it was a blur. The record company kept rolling out singles. Two went all the way to number one, three more to the top ten. Then there was "We Are the World," the song he wrote with Michael Jackson to raise money for famine relief in Africa. Chocolate and flowers are classic—but not exactly original. There's one litmus test that always proves a true classic film: How many people protest in dismay when you tell them you've never seen it. The Davises are like any other family, only they raised a chimpanzee. Then something strange and horrifying happened, though not what you might think. |
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