While Republicans have been demanding to know why Attorney General Merrick Garland has not devoted his entire career to seeing that Hunter Biden is locked up, a few other things have been going on.

Namely, the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York and huge climate protests around the world after a summer of record-breaking climate calamity.

Whoda’ thunk right-wing Supreme Court rulings could look even more hypocritical?

The Court finished its term with a distinctly pull-up-your-bootstraps message. Affirmative action in higher education? Nope. Student loan forgiveness? Nope. After all, America is all about being a self-made success story, just ask Justice Clarence Thomas and his pals in the Horatio Alger Association.

Judging by the lives of right-wing Supreme Court justices like Thomas and Samuel Alito, being successful and living life to the fullest is a lot easier if you have a billionaire patron.