Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/19

[SVPete]

Adulting 101: Behaving In Restaurants

https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/05/19/adulting-101-behaving-in-restaurants-n4953012

Remember the days when families dining out at nice restaurants behaved like, well, families dining out at nice restaurants? Remember when restaurants had dress codes? And even if they didn’t, their patrons were mature enough to feel shame at being the least-dressed-up person in the establishment?

The restaurants themselves remember, and a few are taking steps to reintroduce a bare minimum standard of what can be expected from customers. Ruth’s Chris Steak House had the audacity — the audacity, I tell you — to remind people of its long-existing dress code requiring that ball caps be removed upon entry to their dining rooms. For people who can’t fathom the thought of eating dinner without other diners seeing them in their Titleist hats, they have the option to sit at the bar.

Ruth’s Chris continued with their dress code requirements, stating, "The following attire is not permitted in our dining rooms: Gym wear, pool attire, tank tops, clothing with offensive graphics or language, revealing clothing or exposed undergarments.”

At which online commentators scoffed. They bit their lips, they furrowed their brows, they clutched their pearls. The injustice of it all! Like a teenage boy who obsesses over a girl but then calls her names the second she politely rejects him, all the spurned studs got right to work calling Ruth’s Chris the “Burger King of steak houses.”
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Other restaurant chains such as Capital Grille, Del Frisco’s, and Morton’s also enforce dress codes, mainly along the lines of banning gym wear, flip flops, and overly revealing clothing. And it isn’t only landlocked businesses that are stepping up their game.

Norwegian Cruise Line recently banned tank tops, caps, hats, hoodies, robes, shorts, jeans with holes, or clothing with offensive language or images from some of its onboard restaurants. ...

[SVPete]

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak in Congo, Uganda a Global Health Emergency

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/who-declares-ebola-outbreak-in-congo-uganda-a-global-health-emergency/

I guess the World Health Organization (WHO) discovered it couldn’t hype up the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship.

WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a global health emergency due to 300 cases and 88 deaths.

The majority are in Congo. Only two cases have appeared in Uganda.

However, the outbreak has not met the criteria of a pandemic.

How is an epidemic confined to two African countries a "Global Health Emergency". Restrict travel to central Africa A/R, send medical assistance, and that would be a proportional response.

Contrast this fear-mongering over-reaction with WHO's 2020 parroting of China's 3 weeks of denial that what came to be called Covid could be transmitted between humans, hindering the world's response to Covid.

[SVPete]

Pulliam: Supreme Court ‘Has to’ Take John Eastman Case to Stop ‘Tyrannical Oppression’

https://tennesseestar.com/news/pulliam-supreme-court-has-to-take-john-eastman-case-to-stop-tyrannical-oppression/khousler/2026/05/18/

Pulliam, during Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, criticized California’s attorney discipline system, calling it a “kangaroo court” and comparing the proceedings against Eastman to “Star Chamber” tactics and “the Spanish Inquisition.”

Eastman, a constitutional scholar and former dean of Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, was formally disbarred by the California Supreme Court last month following recommendations from the State Bar Court related to his legal advice to President Donald Trump after the 2020 election.

Pulliam began by emphasizing Eastman’s legal credentials and stature within conservative legal circles.

“John Eastman is a very distinguished legal scholar, went to the University of Chicago Law School, got a PhD from the Claremont Graduate School,” Pulliam said. “He founded the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and taught for many years at Chapman University Law… He was dean there… he’s participated in hundreds of Supreme Court cases, filing amicus briefs, et cetera. Very smart guy.”

Pulliam detailed how Eastman’s legal jeopardy stemmed from his role advising Trump on disputed election procedures and the constitutional authority of then-Vice President Mike Pence during the certification of electoral votes.

“John Eastman gave advice to the president and they were trying to influence Mike Pence as vice president to put a hold on the counting of the electoral votes until some of these issues had been resolved,” Pulliam said.

Pulliam argued that the constitutional and historical questions surrounding disputed electors were unsettled and not outside the bounds of legitimate legal debate.

The bottom line is that Eastman was disbarred for daring to advise Trump about possible actions related to the 2020 Presidential election. By way of contrast, Rs did not go after AlGore's lawyers for their grossly unconstitutional argument in an effort to steal the 2000 Presidential election.

[SVPete]

Civil War at the Times?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/civil-war-at-the-times.php

This story comes from the New York Post, which got it from something called Puck News:

A civil war has erupted inside the New York Times over Nicholas Kristof’s explosive column alleging widespread sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli prison guards.

Staffers at the newspaper are questioning whether some of the most incendiary claims, including an allegation that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian detainees, would have ever cleared the paper’s newsroom standards…

The Times has standards?

…according to Puck News.

The internal backlash has grown so intense that one Times journalist vented to Puck: “I am sick of being embarrassed by the Opinion section.”

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