GOM Still Off Line -- September 5, 2021

NASCAR: Cup Series Playoffs begins tonight. Link here.

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Energy

This appears to be the story coming out of Hurricane Ida re: energy ...  from twitter today, multiple tweets like this:

• "Incredible that GOM is still off line. About 14 million bbls lost and counting."

And someone on social media reading these tweets, politely asked what "GOM" meant. 

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SCOTUS, Texas, And Abortion

I honestly do not understand this.

Link here. 

Seriously: tell me what this is all about.

Plaintiffs: Planned Parenthood.

Defendants: Texas attorney general.

I guess the plaintiffs argue that the law is unconstitutional, and as such, the state's attorney general, needs to enjoin the law.  Because the state's attorney general failed to enjoin the law, the plaintiffs sued, which "automatically" forced SCOTUS to rule. 

Apparently SCOTUS felt this was a state's right "thing" and wanted to give the parties more time to sort this out. A pending case before SCOTUS is more pertinent with regard to Roe vs Wade. 

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Well, Technically, Facebook Was Correct

Link here.

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Much More Pleasant

Wildflie in the first fall colors in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, from Beatuifulbadlandsnd.

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Christopher Warren

I never cared for this guy, but his story really is a microcosm of how great this country is. 

From wiki:

Warren Minor Christopher was born in Scranton, North Dakota, the son of Catherine Anne (née Lemen) and Ernest William Christopher, a bank manager.

Christopher graduated from Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, and attended the University of Redlands, before transferring to the University of Southern California. He was a member of the college fraternity Kappa Sigma Sigma. He graduated magna cum laude from USC in February 1945. 

From July 1943 to September 1946, he served in the United States Naval Reserve, with active duty as an ensign in the Pacific Theater. 

He entered Stanford Law School in September 1946, where he founded and became the first editor of the new Stanford Law Review. While there, he was also elected to the Order of the Coif.

Christopher became the first graduate of Stanford Law School to become a law clerk for a United States Supreme Court Justice when he served as law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas from October 1949 to September 1950. 

He practiced law with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers from October 1950 to June 1967, becoming a partner in 1958 and serving as special counsel to Governor Pat Brown. 

Christopher served as United States Deputy Attorney General from June 1967 until January 20, 1969, after which he rejoined O'Melveny & Myers. 

President Lyndon B. Johnson selected him to assist federal efforts to combat the urban riots in Detroit during July 1967 and in Chicago during April 1968. In 1974, Christopher served as the president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.