Linkfest: Sunday Updates
Time to clean out the aggregator —
ITEM: Yet another state law attempting to restrict the sale of “violent” video games to minors, this time in California, has been struck down by a federal court on vagueness grounds. Just like every single previous attempt.
ITEM: A similar story from the notoriously insolent Alabama legislature, which is considering a proposal authorizing the death penalty for child rapists, in open defiance of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana expressly proscribing capital punishment in such circumstances. Previous post here. (Via SL&P.)
ITEM: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which takes over the defined-benefit pension obligations of bankrupt businesses, is itself in increasing financial distress. Despite politicians’ perpetual protestations to the contrary, the fund is inevitably destined for a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout. One of several posts here.
ITEM: Donald Trump’s publicly traded holding company for his self-branded casinos and resorts has declared bankruptcy. Just like every previous publicly traded Trump company. I previously mocked Trump and his fans here.
ITEM: As I previously tweeted, President Clinton, claiming “contractual obligations,” refused to honor a protest and picket line and gave a paid speech at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, whose owner gave a sizable donation to the campaign to pass California’s bigot amendment. Previous post here.
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Two thoughts:
1) Why do investors continue to sink money into Trump's ventures? The guy simply doesn't have a track record.
2) So does Clinton think that crossing any picket line is OK as long as you have a contractual obligation to cross it (e.g. A job)
Just so you know, there's no such thing as too much Trump bashing. Is he going personally bankrupt this time? The fun thing about financial carnage is that I get to be richer than a lot of famous people. I think there was a time when I was $900 million wealthier than Donald Trump.