Sorry for your loss. That sucks.

Does Florida give the governor the legal right to dictate what local governments can celebrate? Seems sketchy, but Florida is awash in sketchy, so I have no idea.

I need someone who understands law better than myself to clarify here – not only did the prosecutor call a witness not on the list, but that witness was the spouse of the defendant?? I realize this is Alabama, and I may be a caveman lawyer (#notalawyer #notyourlawyer), but isn’t this wildly inadmissable? If this story is true, shouldn’t Cracker Jack lose their legal degree accreditation, because that seems to be where these participants got theirs? Or do l need to return to my cave?

Multiplane camera

Since you brought up chess, I’ve always found chess boxing as an interesting concept.

Hey, I get that reference!

Home battery backup was my first thought here. First I’ve thought about it. I wonder how much it would cost vs comparable commercial solution.

Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where she’s in and out of a coma between the normal world and the world with vampires.

If this is what I think it is, that episode still makes me think about the nature of reality whenever I think about it, which is a lot more often than it should for a show that old.

I have a twist for you – how do you know that time isn’t running backwards?

Wait, weren’t we talking about spoons?

The last live theater I saw was Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Amazingly good. That Cornley theater knows how to put on a great show.

Learning this pleases me. Thank you. The idea that the victims’ families, at least, have not lost those lessons gives me some satisfaction that humanity hasn’t gone full on stupid.

I saw this and thought, “pretty sure that’s from that documentary I saw a long, long time ago.” Then I saw your comment, and felt vindicated.

I loved the idea of a place to keep the memories of the horror of the Holocaust alive so it wouldn’t happen again. And then it happened again, quite publicly, and directly perpetrated by people who were the descendants of those victims and keepers of those memories. I still love the mission, but I fear that at least for now, it is a failure.

Edit: see the response to my post for an insightful comment

I’m too lazy to make the meme, myself, so imagine an image of Zack Morris looking confused, and the text, “I thought it came from boxing?”

This has to be AI generated, right? Right??

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

I expected the rickroll, what threw me was the “gonna”

John Oliver threatened something like that once (but for politicians). Not sure what happened after that, though I have occasionally wondered.