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Chris Britt, Florida Politics
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Republicans double down on efforts to deny women reproductive liberty
April 11, 2024
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
Republicans in both chambers of the Arizona legislature blocked Democratic efforts to repeal the state’s 1864 law banning all abortions and criminalizing abortion healthcare—leaving no doubt that the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling was the precise outcome Republicans wanted. Although a few Arizona Republicans have expressed regret for their prior support for the 1864 law, it will remain in effect until the voters of Arizona approve a proposed state constitutional amendment that would recognize abortion as a “fundamental right.” See Arizona Right to Abortion Initiative.
The Speaker of the Arizona House has said that he will not allow a vote to repeal the 1864 law and GOP members of the Arizona Freedom Caucus released a statement that said,
The Supreme Court of Arizona made the correct ruling, upheld the intent of the legislature, and preserved the rule of law today by ruling that the pre-Roe law will remain effective. [¶¶] Sadly, it seems that some are choosing to reject the fundamental, core principle of protecting life. Some have chosen instead to jump on the bandwagon to legalize unrestricted abortions for the first 15 weeks of pregnancy —a position that would permit 95% of all existing abortions to continue. This is unacceptable, morally wrong, and abrasively out of step with the central tenants of the Republican Party Platform and Republican voters.
The second paragraph quoted above attacks Republicans who are “rejecting” the core Republican position on abortion—a fundamentalist criticism that applies to Donald Trump, who said on Wednesday that he would not sign a national abortion ban. See NPR, Trump backed a federal abortion ban as president. Now, he says he wouldn't sign one.
Trump is playing word games with the fundamental rights of women. If elected, Trump doesn’t need to “sign” a national abortion ban to enforce a national abortion ban. How can that be?
Project 2025 is a plan being prepared by Trump's reactionary advisors to implement an authoritarian regime under Trump if he is reelected. One prong of Project 2025 is to use the 1873 federal law known as the Comstock Act to effectuate a national ban. See Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, Arizona’s abortion ban is back. It’s every state’s future if Trump wins. (slate.com)
Like the 1864 Arizona law, the Comstock Act is a moribund law that has been overtaken by newer statutes—but it has not been repealed. A Trump-appointed Attorney General could simply start enforcing a federal law that has been on the books since 1873 and claim that there is no “ban” signed by Trump. The national “ban” on abortion was signed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1873—and would be enforced as an existing law by his Attorney General (Kash Patel?).
Indictments under the Comstock Act would be challenged in federal court, which would place the ongoing validity of the Comstock Act on the US Supreme Court’s docket. It is reasonable to assume that the reactionary majority on the US Supreme Court will rule in the same way as the Republicans on the Arizona Supreme Court.
In short, don’t fall for Trump's “I won’t sign a national ban” lies. He will instruct his Attorney General to enforce the Comstock Act—and claim that he kept his promise.
Trump's other attempts to moderate his stance on reproductive freedom amount to incoherent flailing. He said on Wednesday that abortion is an issue of “states’ rights,” a formulation that omits women from the legal considerations of an act that can only be performed by them. To date, none of the fifty states has ever become pregnant—and none ever will.
Trump went further, confirming states should be free to jail doctors if they provide abortion healthcare.
But the privileged arrogance of conservative men denying reproductive liberty reached its apogee on Fox News. On Wednesday, a male Fox News commentator (Steve Moore) said that “having to get a bus ticket” to see a gynecologist “isn’t the worst thing in the world.” Beyond Moore’s unbounded arrogance lies profound ignorance.
Women frequently need abortion healthcare on an emergency basis—because they are hemorrhaging or spiraling into sepsis. “Buying a bus ticket” under such circumstances may be a death sentence for the woman. And depending on where the woman lives, the “bus ride” may be a thousand miles to secure healthcare that was a federal constitutional right for the last half century—before Dobbs.
The continued assault on women’s fundamental rights by the Republican Party—combined with the arrogance and ignorance of the men leading the charge—will have far-reaching ramifications in November 2024 and beyond. Every voter who cares about women should be motivated as never before to vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in 2024. Republicans are making that point clearer every day.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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95 SENSES:
Old man’s monologue
Life of senses and regrets
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Reviews of the Films in the Oscar Best Animated Short Category 2024
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It’s the Oscars tonight and I’ve been trying to watch all of the Animated Short Films before the awards get given out. Here are my reviews of the films – all but one – that I did get to watch. The nominees: LETTER TO A PIG – Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter NINETY-FIVE SENSES – Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess OUR UNIFORM – Yegane Moghaddam PACHYDERME – Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius WAR IS…
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Based on the short story by Stephen King, 20th Century Studios and 21 Laps’ The Boogeyman follows the Harper family. “High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims.” (20th Century Studios)
The Boogeyman stars Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivian Lyra Blair, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu, LisaGay Hamilton, and David Dastmalchian. Rob Savage directs from a screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, and Mark Heyman.
The Boogeyman releases to theaters on June 2, 2023.
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I've Got Batman in My Basement Directed by: Frank Paur Story by: Sam Graham & Chris Hubbell Airdate: September 30, 1992 Batman: The Animated Series (1992 - 1995)
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1.03b Children’s Zoo
Director: Robert Downey
Writer: Chris Hubbell & Gerrit Graham
Cinematographer: Bradford May
Summary:
A little girl (Jaclyn Bernstein) purposefully tidies her room to the soundtrack of her parents (Lorna Luft & Steven Keats) having a shouting match elsewhere in the house. She removes a scroll from her dresser drawer—it’s a very exclusive invitation to the Children’s Zoo. She takes the scroll and her favorite teddy bear in hand and makes one last appraisal of her room. Above her dresser is a banner with “Welcome” written in large capital letters.
She enters the kitchen where her parents continue to argue crudely about seemingly anything and everything. She interrupts them and hands her mother the invitation. As one might expect, they now argue about the invitation and its stipulation that both parents must accompany the child.
They load into their station wagon and arrive at a brightly-colored facade—the exhibits are all indoors. The girl enters through a child-sized door on her own, meanwhile the parents do not cease their quarreling at any moment. The woman running the zoo herds the parents to their special Parents’ “waiting room.”
The girl heads down a darkened hallway toward the first exhibit. Behind a large, circular glass window is a haggard looking man and woman. They beg the girl desperately to free them.
At the next exhibit, she finds a couple anxiously trying to find an escape from their room. When the girl activates the intercom, the man (Wes Craven) spouts off threats at her.
The next is a couple sleeping. This is followed by a couple ready to bargain with her like used-car salesmen desperate to drop a lemon. They promise her all the cookies and ice cream and delayed bedtimes her heart desires. She moves on.
Finally, the girl reaches an exhibit with a couple that speak to her calmly and explain that they’ve learned their lesson and speak with regret of their seven-year-old son who dropped them off there. The girl has made her choice.
The girl leaves the zoo with her new parents, as her discarded parents look on in dismay and shout for her to come back.
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Children’s Zoo was written by the team of Chris Hubbell and Gerrit Graham. For both writers, TZ ‘85 is their first screenwriting credit.
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Yes, this Gerrit Graham.
They would go on to write two more stories for TZ ‘85 and also do some work for Disney films later. Hubbell also did some writing for children’s television in the 1990s. 
Here’s the thing: Children’s Zoo is the best segment of the three scripted by Hubbell and Graham. One, Opening Day (1.10c), is easily one of the worst segments from TZ ‘85 and the other, Still Life (1.14a) is also pretty rough. Not a great track record, but I’ll talk about the other stories more as I work through the series chronologically. For this episode, I don’t have much behind-the-scenes material to report on, so I can’t say for certain why this story was bought or commissioned. 
It’s not an especially strong script or story, but Children’s Zoo has two saving graces: it’s a shorter segment and it’s directed by Robert Downey. 
Downey clearly envisioned an appropriate level of absurdity for the concept and had the skill as a director to execute it with enough style to make Children’s Zoo just over the top enough and still be coherent. While it isn’t as humorous as it might be, the soundtrack of arguing was very effective, and I think Luft and Keats do a good job of crafting cartoonishly bad parent characters in a very short span of time.
As for the short runtime, this is another instance of the final presentation of a story benefitting from the flexibility the showrunners had in regard to length of segments. 
(As a refresher, the team was able to produce all of the segments for this season and then arrange the segments to fill an hour time slot, before the show went to air. It’s very uncommon to be given this much time in TV production btw.) 
The short runtime may have helped Children’s Zoo as a standalone story, it doesn’t really jive with the other stories in this episode in any meaningful way. I’m speaking in comparison to the previous episode’s short, Dreams for Sale (1.02b), which created a nice thematic and tonal bridge between the two longer segments. Children’s Zoo however feels more like the non-sequitur-esque shorts of Night Gallery (1969). Even though I personally enjoy some of the humorous padding segments in Night Gallery, that’s not a compliment here. 
Something that concerned me—both when watching this series for the first time but also when researching the production—was that it seemed too informed by Night Gallery. Not only is it a very different show than the TZ ‘59, it also wasn’t nearly as well-received. Additionally, Rod Serling did not have much creative control over Night Gallery, and he disliked the shorts, but didn’t have the authority to nix them. All that is to say that Night Gallery is not a particularly smart place to pull inspiration from for a revival of The Twilight Zone. Additionally, Night Gallery had been canceled for low ratings only ten years before TZ ‘85’s initial production was launched. I suppose network executives have short memories. 
Considering Night Gallery’s influence on this show, it’s strange that Philip DeGuere, the showrunner for the first season of TZ ‘85, gave as a reason for the show’s failure (in the ratings) that people weren’t attuned to anthology shows anymore and didn’t get the format. Again, Night Gallery went off the air in ‘73. Also, the very successful Tales from the Darkside premiered in 1983 (although with a more economical budget/production model) and that was created in the wake of the popularity of Creepshow (1982), which was an anthology film. In short, that’s a cockamamie reason for TZ ‘85 not performing to expectations. 
Apologies for the slight tangent! The most obvious original TZ episode that comes to mind to pair with Children’s Zoo is The Bewitchin’ Pool (5.36). Of course, there’s a dash of I Sing the Body Electric (3.35) in there too. [If Children’s Zoo had a stronger script it might have been great to include the emotional resonance of either of those TZ ‘59 stories. But, I stand by the fact that Downey’s absurdist take was likely the right call for the script he was working from.]
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DCAU Rewatch: Batman the Animated Series 13: I’ve Got Batman in my Basement
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Batman is helpless after exposure to a deadly gas by the Penguin. It is up to a few suburban child detectives to keep him safe.
Written by Sam Graham & Chris Hubbell
Directed by Frank Paur
Music by Shirley Walker
Animation Services by Dong Yang Animation Co., LTD.
This episode is probably the most widely reviled episode of not just Batman the Animated Series but the DCAU at large. It’s understandable. The script is basically from an entirely different show. Even from the very beginning with the bizarre heist with the absurdly long claw contraption, glowing egg,  and vulture attack. It is emblematic of the production struggles of these early episodes. For all of the valid criticisms there are to be had of this episode, it is not completely at odds with some of the weaker moments we’ve seen from some of these early episodes.
You know this episode has gone off the rails, though, as soon as we see a quiet suburb and a bunch of kids. The way it’s structured to follow these children undermines almost everything about the show and its attempt to ground Batman and his world in genuine drama and gravitas. Then we get a whole bunch of gags with the Batmobile.
I don’t hate the idea of a couple of kids helping Batman escape and recuperate. Handled with some real thought it could be a compelling story about the way Batman inspires the city and brings hope to even the most vulnerable. I mean, that’s not what we get at all but there’s a way to do something like this and make something genuinely good.
Instead, we get the kid from The Magic School Bus bumbling around for almost 20 minutes culminating with Penguin and his goons getting Home Alone’d.
Read the full entry on the most infamous episode of the entire DCAU on Patreon.
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Birthdays 6.22
Beer Birthdays
Michael Frenn (1958)
Jean Moeder (1977)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Paul Frees; voice actor (1920)
H. Rider Haggard; writer (1856)
Kris Kristofferson; country singer, actor (1933)
Todd Rundgren; rock singer, songwriter (1948)
Billy Wilder; film director (1906)
Famous Birthdays
Peter Asher; pop singer (1944)
Champ Bailey; Denver Broncos CB (1978)
Gary Beers; rock bassist (1957)
Bill Blass; fashion designer (1922)
Ed Bradley; television journalist (1941)
Erin Brockovich; environmental activist (1960)
Octavia E. Butler; writer (197)
Bruce Campbell; actor (1958)
Gower Champion; choreographer (1921)
Carson Daly; television broadcaster (1973)
Eumir Deodato; Brazilian pianist, composer (1943)
Katherine Dunham; dancer, choreographer (1910)
Dianne Feinstein; politician (1933)
Carl Hubbell; New York Giants P (1903)
Brit Hume; television broadcaster (1943)
Julien Huxley; English writer, biologist (1887)
Gwen John; Welsh artist (1876)
Howard Kaylan; rock musician (1947)
Cyndi Lauper; pop singer (1953)
Chris Lemmon; actor (1954)
Michael Lerner; actor (1941)
Mai Lin; porn actor (1953)
"Pistol" Pete Maravich; New Orleans Jazz G (1947)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh; aviator, writer (1906)
Giuseppe Mazzini; Genoan revolutionary (1805)
Eliades Ochoa; Cuban guitarist (1946)
Joseph Papp; theatre producer (1921)
William McGregor Paxton (1869)
Tracy Pollan; actor (1960)
Freddie Prinze; comedian, actor (1954)
Erich M. Remarque; German writer (1898)
Prunella Scales; actor (1932)
Meryl Streep; actor (1949)
Michael Todd; film producer (1909)
Wilhelm von Humboldt; German philosopher (1767)
Lindsay Wagner; actor (1949)
Kurt Warner; St. Louis Rams QB (1971)
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Tommy Tuberville (again) says white nationalists are not racists.
          Three months ago, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama made news by saying on a local radio show that he called white nationalists “Americans” who should be allowed to serve in the military. Earlier this week, CNN anchor Kaitlin Collins gave Senator Tuberville every opportunity to clarify and amend his remarks by asking him to admit that white nationalists are racists. Tuberville refused: See CNN, What Sen. Tommy Tuberville actually said about White nationalists.
          For several minutes, Tuberville defended white nationalists by saying repeatedly that they are “Americans”—refusing to acknowledge that the very definition of a white nationalist is someone who believes that the white race is superior to all others and should be afforded special status in America. See White nationalist Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster: “Militant white people who espouse white supremacy . . . and advocate enforced racial segregation.”
          After an uproar (even in the GOP) over Tuberville’s comments, he finally conceded what he was unwilling to say to Collins: “White nationalists are racists.” See CNN, Tommy Tuberville now says 'White nationalists are racists' after refusing to denounce them.
          So, is this controversy simply a “gotcha” moment in which journalists are trying to confuse or trip up politicians? Hardly. Tuberville himself raised the subject when he objected to the notion that the US military was seeking to prevent white nationalists from joining the military. See Rolling Stone, Tommy Tuberville Defends White Nationalists in the Military. It was not a “gotcha” moment, but a clearly stated belief. Tuberville’s first comment on the subject was,
“We are losing in the military so fast. Our readiness in terms of recruitment. And why? I’ll tell you why, because the Democrats are attacking our military, saying we need to get out the white extremists, the white nationalists . . . .”
          From the outset, Tuberville understood that “white extremists” and “white nationalists” were the same. Worse, Alabama has a deeply embedded history of racism that continues through the present. Until 2022, the following provisions continued to appear in the Alabama state constitution (even though the provisions violated the US Constitution):
“The Legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a Negro, or descendant of a negro.” "Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.”
          As a US Senator from Alabama—a former slave state in which 26% of its current population is Black—Senator Tuberville should be keenly aware of and sensitive to his state’s racist history. By defending “white extremists, white nationalists” (his words), he is signaling to his constituents that racism is alive and well in Republican leaders in Alabama. This isn’t about “gotcha.” This is about assuring all citizens of Alabama that they are equal in the eyes of the law—and in the eyes of their elected leaders.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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101 Dalmatians: The Series Season 1 Episode 10: The Dogs of De Vil/Dog's Best Friend
Directed by Rick Schneider
The Dogs of De Vil:
Written by Chris Hubbell & Sam Graham
Storyboard by Joey Banaszkiewicz, Sean Bishop, Kevin Davis, Julie Forte, David Knott, Aaron Rozenfeld & Charles Wester
Animation directed by Sung-Gu Won
Dog's Best Friend:
Written by Thomas Hart
Storyboard by James Fletcher
Animation directed by Young-Hwan Sang & Junggon Kim
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