1. Paradigmatic case for discrimination?
2. Toyota Solution.
3. Guilty pleasure.
4. Fastball shreds the Constitution
5. Seduced and abandoned.

1

Hypothetical: Guy Philanderer from your Church walks into your restaurant with Bimbette The Pole Dancer, his girlfriend, hanging on his arm. Guy’s divorce isn’t final yet, but Guy says Bimbette’s his soulmate, that his wife was a youthful indiscretion, and that he’s checked with God, who’s cool with all this. The kids will be just fine. They’re better off without all the tension in the house.

That’s what he tells everyone about the situation. Guy’s pretty wealthy, by the way, and for some reason Pastor Billy Bob hasn’t yet gotten around to telling Guy he’s persona non grata until he repents.

May you “discriminate” against Guy and Bimbette? Mustn’t you discriminate?

Does that conclusion change if Guy comes in with “Fabio” on his arm, making the same “soulmate” and “God’s cool with this” argument?

Just askin’.

2

From Toyota, the greenest car ever. (HT Mercatornet.com)

(For my credulous friends who breathlessly pass along nonsense, be it noted that the car is not real. The Onion is satire/humor.)

3

My standing advice, linked below, disses television, but if I happen to notice that one’s coming up on ESPN or something, I’m a sucker for strongman competitions. Here’s your chance to grab a little guilty pleasure without touching that remote. (HT The Browser)

4

[O]f late come rumblings from the most august newspaper in the land that certain questions concerning LIBOR-fixing among American bank officials might soon be entertained in a federal courtroom. But isn’t it a fact that the US Department of Justice has its hands full – not to mention its dockets – with cases of alleged performance-doping by star athletes? Just think: all that effort (and expense!) at repeated prosecutions and Roger Clemens remains at large! His fastball might yet shred the constitution and dishonor all the combined sacrifices of our men in uniform in countless heroic wars.

IMHO, that’s all about Kunstler that’s worth reading this week, but here’s the link if you want to judge for yourself.

5

It’s an interesting thought that the health insurance industry – which went into the tank for Obamacare upon the promise of “a requirement to buy coverage backed with a penalty for violators” – now finds itself with no mandate and a nominal tax for those caught going bare, and thus may turn en masse for repeal.

I suppose it’s too much to hope that they’d destroy their seducer now that they’re abandoned.

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Some succinct standing advice on recurring themes.