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EPISODE · Aug 1, 2018 · 53 MIN

New (Old) Spock?

from Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show

Once upon a time, the Supreme  Court was asked to stop something that had already happened from happening.  Yesterday, the Attorney Virtue Signaling General of Washington State  asked the Federal courts to stop something from happening that already  happened. It won't work. It cannot work. But it's something, so like a straw  ban, we're gonna do it, because it's "something..." Star Trek: Discovery is going to destroy Mr. Spock by making him "not entirely the Spock who has been formed  enough to be the Spock that we know from TOS. There's a lot of story about who  Spock was before he becomes the Spock that is the yin-yang to Kirk... we have an  opportunity to present a version of Spock that's both totally consistent with  the Spock everyone knows but very, very different. In Tacoma, a bunch of perverts  were  arrested for trying to use Social Media to have sex with little kids. Of  course, that's already illegal, but there's no Attorney Virtue Signaling General  proposing injunctions to stop it. I wonder why not? And the City of Seattle,  beautiful as it is, has a homeless problem. The problem isn't what they think  that it is, but that hasn't stopped them from threatening  to fine their shelters - which they fund - for not meeting "unrealistic"  (the correct term is "impossible") goals of "exiting" people from homelessness.

Once upon a time, the Supreme  Court was asked to stop something that had already happened from happening.  Yesterday, the Attorney Virtue Signaling General of Washington State  asked the Federal courts to stop something from happening that already  happened. It won't work. It cannot work. But it's something, so like a straw  ban, we're gonna do it, because it's "something..." Star Trek: Discovery is going to destroy Mr. Spock by making him "not entirely the Spock who has been formed  enough to be the Spock that we know from TOS. There's a lot of story about who  Spock was before he becomes the Spock that is the yin-yang to Kirk... we have an  opportunity to present a version of Spock that's both totally consistent with  the Spock everyone knows but very, very different. In Tacoma, a bunch of perverts  were  arrested for trying to use Social Media to have sex with little kids. Of  course, that's already illegal, but there's no Attorney Virtue Signaling General  proposing injunctions to stop it. I wonder why not? And the City of Seattle,  beautiful as it is, has a homeless problem. The problem isn't what they think  that it is, but that hasn't stopped them from threatening  to fine their shelters - which they fund - for not meeting "unrealistic"  (the correct term is "impossible") goals of "exiting" people from homelessness.

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