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Off my deck just now:

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Not following it much at all. Life is too short.

The NY Times has far better recipes.

An excellent article in the NYT today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/opinion/campus-protests-gaza.html

A solid letter from Jewish students at Columbia:

https://tinyurl.com/mudd6nsj

I leave my yard in forest, though I do remove lower ladder fuels to reduce wildland fire issues.

I think I mentioned, and perhaps shared a photo, of a protest that shut down several blocks of the middle of Cambridge last October when I was over there. The energy put off by the crowd, and the...

I enjoyed it.

Well, politics is going to the dogs, so it seems oddly appropriate :-)

My sister and her husband spent $6k on a "doodle" puppy a few years ago. They both work during the day. It is a very high-drive dog, and they treat it as if it were their child. It has never...

I enjoy large dogs, and had always hoped to have a Cane Corso, but once a dog becomes "trendy", problems appear. Wow - I just looked, they are #18 on the list of breed popularity in the USA!

I...

LWV Report from the County Council meeting this week:

I think that's how I end up with them. They look so cute, especially as puppies, that people get them as pets and don't realize what they are getting into. I had Bassets for years and years, nearly...

For decades now, I have adopted "troublesome" dogs. Usually large scent hounds that some halfwit purchased, who had no idea how to properly train and work such animals. Generally with focused...

I think Israel's "right to exist" was established in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when there was a concerted attempt to drive the Jewish people into the sea. Israel has re-asserted that right when...

The ACLU:

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_v._Community_for_Creative_Non-Violence

Trespassing, free speech, time/place/manner restrictions and the 1st Amendment. Can be tricky determining how things work in not-quite-public spaces.

Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S....

I theorize that these protests are increasing the likelihood of a Trump victory in the coming election.

Two interesting articles I came across yesterday:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/opinions/campus-protests-university-of-texas-israel-gaza-suri/index.html
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I'm still paying off my daughter's student loans from Princeton, and she graduated in 2018. I'm down to about $25k from the original ~$260k. She received a fine education there, though there were...

Wonderful story:

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1954-04/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater

Welcome to the Industrial Revolution.

Meanwhile, in Finland:

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-international-philanthropic-071123.html

I recently worked out that if I sold my current home I could stay at an AirBnB every day for the rest of my life with the proceeds, and never run out of cash. The temptation to insanely simplify...