officer or drive-by shooting or hire a hitman. those things take you to a mandatory life sentence and there is a reason they are aggregate, because they are egregious and we need to punish egregious circumstances and sending a message to people that that won t be tolerated by our society period. this is out of control. by lowering sentences for some things especially based on race alone is mind blowing that that is bouncing around in the state capital. we should be cracking down on this stuff, doesn t matter what race you are. if you re a white person hiring out your car window and kill someone you should have the same aggravated murder one account as anybody who does it. it doesn t matter. it is not racial issue. it is a safety issue. it is a public safety issue. and people get that. kevin: appreciate you spending time, best of luck to you.
capitalist market of art i mean, art as business has assumed all along. but then are you saying that in this market oriented capitalist united states of america of 2021, where the internet and digital culture dominates all, are you saying that there. ..that writing fiction and the novel matters as much as ever? that, you know, you and the generation before you, of updike and bellow and roth and all these others. it doesn t matter because a book is read by one person at a time. and the book, in spite of everything, is the only. a novel, for example, is the only place, i think, in the human world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. and that space that is created in the book is something very beautiful and precious. and whether ten people read the book or 10,000 people read the book or 10 million people read the book, it doesn t matter. the person reading it is alone with the writer
places and seen a lot of strange things but nothing stranger than studio 54 at the height of its popularity in the 70s. it s where you come when you want to escape. it s really escapism. in the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would walk by to watch the people not get in. because that was fun, too. oh, you are not shaved. there s no way you re going to get in. it doesn t matter. if you re not shaven, just go home. you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. we can t let in everybody who wants to come in. i wish we could. oh, freak out le freak, c est chic freak out the great chic, go to studio 54 to get in. and they don t. so they write a song. have you heard about the new dance craze listen to us i m sure you ll be amazed it was a diss to studio 54 for rejecting them. the part where they say freak
this. beyond all of the politics, and the protests, it s just begum conventional wisdom that schools being closed hurts kids mental health. we just all accepted the view of, people like liberal columnist who wrote this week, the damage to a generation of children social development and educational attainment, will be a recovery-able. damage from school closures, that is. breathless news headlines keep telling us, again and again, that kids being home, during the pandemic, has harm their mental health. so, they have to go back to school, no matter the covid threat. is that true? when ex guest, an expert s mental health and suicide. he works with the data. he saying something quite different from the conventional wisdom. joining me now, dr. tyler black. clinical assistant at the university of british columbia. thank you so much for joining me, this evening. you said, recently, something most people don t say. quote, the mental health impacts of the virus and, his consequences includi
gop won t protect the vote. two members of his own party won t carve out the filibuster to make it happen. this is what you call i mean it s flat out it s a minority ruling a majority. that s what it is. it s what happens when you have a a razor thin majority but a minority party explicitly saying we re not going to work with you. a minority party who appears voting rights, they don t really care about it. it doesn t matter. and then there is the conservative majority supreme court in a decision that is a huge hit to the president s attempt to use the power of the federal government to fight the pandemic. the supreme court blocking his vaccine and testing rule for large businesses but allowing a vaccine mandate for some health care workers to go into effect nationwide. we ve got more on all of this coming up tonight. it s a packed news night.