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Adam Bonin Profile picture
@adambonin
Aug 21, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This is how you end the #VMAs. From 25 years ago:
Ok, this is going to send me down a #VMA nostalgia cascade. Nirvana, "Rape Me/Lithium/Krist Please Don't Do That! (at 4:10)", 1992 VMAs.
Madonna, "Vogue," 1990 #VMAs.
Prince and the New Power Generation, "Gett Off," 1991 #VMAs
Sinead O'Connor, "Nothing Compares 2 U," 1990 #VMAs
perhaps my favorite non-musical VMA highlight: RuPaul vs. Milton Berle, 1993 #VMAs. Not a fair fight. dailymotion.com/video/x5twsy6

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Sep 9, 2018
Friends, please stop promoting this crap. It's another press stunt from an entities which does them all the time to try to raise money from unsuspecting anti-Trumpers. See, e.g., dailykos.com/stories/2017/6…
I mean, remember this one? Same people.
This is what they do. Stop promoting it. Be discerning readers.
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Sep 4, 2018
It really bothers me to see REVENGE OF THE NERDS listed at all, let alone as high as 8th, on a list like this. Anyone viewing the film with contemporary eyes should be horrified by it. vulture.com/article/25-bes…
The capsule summary says it's "a satisfying series of fulfilled wishes, the nerds get their, you know, revenge."

It's actually watching the Nerds behaving worse than the jocks: spying on, then selling nude pictures of sorority members. And more. (2/)
Lewis, an alleged hero, rapes a woman by deception -- she only consents to sex with him because he's wearing a Darth Vader mask and she thinks it's her actual boyfriend. (3/)
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Aug 26, 2018
What a patriot sounds like: McCain, 2008 RNC: "And, finally, a word to Senator Obama ... you have my respect and my admiration. Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us. We are fellow Americans, and that's an association that means more to me than any other."
"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea."
More from McCain's 2008 RNC speech.
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Aug 23, 2018
I never put this together before, but: as @ZephyrTeachout helpfully noted in 2009, part of the argument for why the Senate, not SCOTUS tries impeachments is that, in Gouverneur Morris's words, "The supreme Court were too few in number and might be warped or corrupted." (1/)
Delegate Roger Sherman specifically objected to SCOTUS trying impeachments as being improper "because the Judges would be appointed by him."

That's right, Originalists: the Framers didn't want SCT justices ruling on corrupt acts by the President who nominated them. (2/)
You can find Madison's notes here on that day's debates here (9-8-1787): avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/d…

The other thing they did that day was expand the grounds from treason/bribery to include HC&M - George Mason noted "Attempts to subvert the Constitution may not be Treason" (3/)
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Aug 21, 2018
5-2 decision holds that defendant's gangsta rap video, threatening named police officers who were to testify against him in criminal case, is not protected under First Amendment. Convictions for terroristic threats/witness intimidation stand.
Oh, gosh, Justice Wecht's concurring opinion -- on the intent test for such a conviction -- is a fun dive through music. Must've been fun for his clerks. cc: @alyankovic pacourts.us/assets/opinion…
This is, I hope, the first time @train has ever been cited in a judicial opinion.
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Aug 11, 2018
Among its many triumphs, BLACKKKLANSMAN gives us Spike Lee's most effective closing montage since BAMBOOZLED. Is it melodramatic? Sure. But it is earned and necessary. Do read @aoscott's review. nytimes.com/2018/08/09/mov…
Also: if you didn't know John David Washington was Denzel's son, you'd know it pretty quickly anyway. There's a distinctive cadence, especially in some of the small talk, for which he is a clear and proud inheritor.
And I was worried towards the end that the Patented Spike Lee Dolly Shot I was so looking forward to wasn't actually in the movie. Don't worry, friends: it's there. Be patient.
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