More University disruption and abuse disguised as discourse

"University of Texas law student and cohorts disrupt Israeli professor’s talk"

Legal Insurrection has the details:
The ringleader of the group has been identified as a UT law student named Mohammed Nabulsi. Despite being asked repeatedly to either leave or sit down and listen to the lecture, Nabulsi kept insisting that he was going to give a speech, and as an argument ensued between Prof. Pedahzur and Nabulsi, the other protesters began chanting “Free Free Palestine” and other slogans.

The PSC, ironically, is circulating an (edited) video of the disruption, (see below) somehow believing that the end result is that Pedahzur should be punished (they misidentify him in the video). Give them points for chutzpah, at least. But in fact, the video, even in its edited version, should be enough for University of Texas to suspend the lot of protesters, Nabulsi in particular. Is the university going to tolerate preplanned disruption of campus events? Legal Insurrection has additional video.

domestic abuse

Vive la différence.

U-2 spy plane shuts down LAX

Leading to delays and cancellations of hundreds of flights across the country.

NBC News.

How odd. And yet another reason among hundreds of reasons to avoid flying whenever possible. At this point if you still enjoy flying around then you are a straight up masochist, time and self-respect just not your bag.

The LAX computers overloaded attempting to track the plane passing through miles above regular air traffic. U-2 flies at 60,000 ft., regular air traffic 30,000. Backup computers also failed.

Fail, fail, fail, three fails in one.

The problem lasted an hour and affected thousands of passengers (that had already been abused). 27 cancellations of arriving flights, 23 departures, 212 delays, and 27 diversions. Also delays at Burbank, Ontario and Orange County and other airports (too minor to mention apparently) across the Southwestern U.S.

Edwards AFB is 30 miles north of L.A. Center. A spokesman for  Edwards AFB denies U-2 planes are assigned to Edwards, answering a question that nobody asked.