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RIP. Carl Weathers dies aged 76
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68188746

Cloud described as "Stoned Bear Waving"
 

You're absolutely right.
 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/us/politics/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R00.nEdD.uJpCOBtclluJ&bgrp=a&smid=url-share

You're absolutely right.
 

I have to say, I find this particular insight pretty compelling.
 
 

Pretty decent legal summary on the whole Texas border thing.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/27/politics/texas-border-supreme-court-what-matters/index.html
 
It’ll likely keep going on in one way or another for a bit yet.

Hadn't listened to this album in a while.  It still holds up
 
 

I've served on two juries, a criminal trial, and a civil trial. The criminal trial resulted in a not guilty verdict.
 
I was surprised to be selected for the civil trial. It was a minor fender-bender, but the plaintiff was claiming severe back injuries. I figured that the plaintiff's attorneys would reject me, but that didn't happen. When they asked if I would have any issues with a large judgement, I briefly included the words "tort reform" in my answer, which got a smile from the defendant's attorney, but only a slight look of confusion on the plaintiff's attorney's face.
 
Talking after the trial to the defense attorney, he assumed that jury foreman was either going to be me or the high school science teacher. In deliberations, I had turned it down, and the science teacher became foreman. The case involved a medical component,and I was also surprised that they left a retired nurse on the jury. Plaintiff was asking $12.5 million, we deliberated over initial medical costs (a little less than $8000), or nothing. We went with nothing.
 
The plaintiff's attorneys were far from the smartest in the room. I found out that they were the seventh legal team on the case, and that they turned down a half a million from the defendant's insurance. The original medical bills had already been paid,and if we had chosen that, the plaintiff's lawyers would have been able to get their legal fees paid by the defense.

Went to a city park here in Seattle, one that abuts the elementary/middle school my kids went to.   I hadn't been there in several years, but my daughter goes there often (a friend lives nearby).  It seems a beaver or two has taken up residence there, no more than 20 yards from where a creek flows through a culvert and under the railroad into the Sound.  They've got a dam in place which we saw (though we saw no beavers), a pond building up behind it, and the area around is transforming into more of a meadow.  Would be a fascinating place to do ecological monitoring as the invertebrate species shift with the changing environment.

My uncle in Toronto is in the hospital for pneumonia. It's pretty bad.

Journal of the American Medical Association: Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans
 
 
For those of you who are related to at least one woman.

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
 
 

Songs from the Wood (40th Anniversary edition - The Country Set) by Jethro Tull. (Playing the Steven Wilson Surround mix)
 
 
 
 

From the late great Terry Pratchett
 
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad. (LL)

RIP Peter Schickele
 
‘PDQ Bach’ musical satirist has died
 
His musical comedy was remarkable in that the more you know about classical music, the funnier it is. I will miss him.

Certainly the right spirit, though for real accuracy I think the word "speculation" ought to be replaced with "making s--t up".

He's at the opposite end of the campus from the Math, Science, and Engineering buildings, so it's not a surprise for me.
 
The Flora Dungan Humanities building is visible over the interviewers shoulder in some scenes.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
 

Faster than expected. 
 

I still remember this from the 80s:
"The Moral Majority is neither."

I still remember this from the 80s:
"The Moral Majority is neither."