(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)

There were some things I didn't mention about my two days at the Supreme Court this week. This is because I was so stunned by Justice Samuel Alito's smarmy attempt to prove that liberals were the real racists, and by Justice Antonin (Short Time) Scalia's Dred Scott re-enactment performance piece. One of these things was Chief Justice John Roberts's conspicuous frustration during the oral arguments over Fisher. V. University of Texas that people think institutional racism is still, you know, a thing. Didn't he declare the Day Of Jubilee a couple of years ago, when he gutted the Voting Rights Act? Why is he still being asked about these things? Why aren't "The Blacks" playing banjos and dancing, the way they do? Why does everyone laugh at his mighty sword?

When it came time for UT's lawyer to argue the school's position, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to want a timeline for an end to affirmative action programs altogether, alluding to a 2003 case in which the Supreme Court predicted race-conscious programs would no longer be needed in 25 years. "Are we going to hit the deadline?" he asked. "Is this going to be done, in your view, in 12 years?...What unique perspective does a minority student bring to a physics class?" he wondered, but later tweaked the question: "I'm just wondering what the benefits of diversity are in that situation."

Maybe it would prevent someone from growing up to be an ignorant tight-ass like, say, John Roberts? Now you know why I never became a lawyer.

As a public service, I am going to save you all the trouble of watching Morning Joe for the next week. Here is the sum total of what the punditry will be.

This week in the annals of freeloading deadbeats.

In June, ranchers in Battle Mountain, Nevada, drove their cattle onto public lands in defiance of orders by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stay off areas affected by the ongoing drought. The ranchers claimed there was no drought and so their animals should be allowed to graze on the land. But at least two ranching families involved in the protest received $2.2 million from a federal drought disaster relief program, according to Reveal. The leader of the protest, Dan Filippini, got $338,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Livestock Forage Disaster Program (pdf) last year. His family received another $750,000 via a trust and corporation. Filippini took the payments despite his lawyer claiming in 2014 that "no drought exists" on the Battle Mountain range.

I want my money back. Today.

Weekly WWOZ Pick To Click: "Ho Down" (My Graveyard Jaw): Yeah, I pretty much still love New Orleans.

Weekly Visit To The Pathé Archives: Here's Benito Mussolini, sitting on a horse. It is a yooooooge horse. History is so cool.

Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods has re-emerged on social media to write words. The caps-lock key seems to be as sticky as the gummed-up corridors of her cerebellum are.

Gov't Isn't Sifting Pro-Americans From Those Following Sharia Law, Which Conflicts With, and Actually HATES, Our Constitution and Ethics. SHARIA LAW DESTROYS AMERICA

So understand the gist of a temporary ban on those unvetted, just like Jimmy Carter was praised for doing during the Iran crisis. Remember? (Make liberals and RINOs explain their praise for that action, while blistering today's proposal by Donald Trump to do the same.) Think, America! This is an American security issue, not a religious issue. Trump and Rand Paul are appropriately explaining this despite a "politically correct" uninformed cultural (and White House) filter that's used by the media to keep low-information voters in the dark. You're smarter than they give you credit for, America. And you certainly deserve better. Thank you for seeking truth! I hope to prove more "truth" on CNN next week. (Stand by for that.)

"Uninformed."

She actually used the word.

"All of them, Katie."

Marvelous. Thanks again, Senator McCain.

Is it a good day for dinosaur news? It's always a good day for dinosaur news!

The remains of Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis – a partial skull and foot – were collected from the Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China. Like Triceratops, the new species was a plant-eater. But it didn't have horns and was about the size of a spaniel. Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis walked on two legs and had ornamental texture on nearly all parts of the skull.

Two new ones in the same week! Sing along with us now, mates.

"Kunbarrasaurus sits in the old gum tree/merry, merry king of the primordial plains, is he…"

As it happens, I'll be in Las Vegas for what may be the Republican debate of all time. So I'll be there to hear the Princess' wisdom first hand. Be well and play nice, ya bastids, Stay above the snake-line because I don't know if I'm gonna come out of this one alive.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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