One of my cousins is a high school history teacher, they solve the AI problem by making the students hand write everything. :)

Slipped in standing water and mashed the meniscus in my left knee, it swole up to the size of a pumpkin. Never been right since.

Top half of my leg went like this: ↩️
Bottom half of my leg went like this: ↪️

Had my first major injury at 27, that’s how it starts…

Quite a lot of folk hymnals absolutely slap.

Check the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou?

https://youtu.be/FbwUSOw_7qU

Hiring a relative = nepotisim.

Getting hired because you know somebody = networking.

Definitely a thing.

https://time.com/6992138/pretty-privilege-essay/

As a dude, I’m tall. 6’2". That alone has opened doors for me.

Revenge of the Nerds.

Return of the Jedi and Return of the King are subtitles, not titles. :)

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (6 words)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (8 words)

“Your heart did WHAT??!?!?”

I can’t really think of anything I need that will be problematic when the tariffs drop. I do have a hankering for French cookware, but at the same time, I don’t NEED more French cookware. ;)

https://www.lecreuset.com/

Plan is the same as before Trump’s stupidity… pay off debt. Plan to be out of debt (except for the mortgage) by end of year.

Problem: The US Marshals work for the Executive branch. :(

And Judicial term limits…

Judiciary has no enforcement arm. Remove the DOJ from the executive branch and place it under the Judicial branch.

Now you no longer have reason to go “We don’t prosecute sitting Presidents.” ;)

This has always been a problem with the court system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia

“In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”[7][8]”

As long as we’re talking pie in the sky and checks and balances and such… there needs to be an easier way to over-ride bad Supreme Court decisions than simply ignoring them.

As kids, we’re all taught that Executive/Legislative/Judicial are like Rock/Paper/Scissors.

Legislative passes laws, Executive signs or vetoes them, Judicial states if they’re constitutional.

But while the Legislative can over-ride a veto with a 2/3rds majority, if the Supreme Court makes a bad ruling, the only way of reversing them STARTS with a 2/3rds majority in the House AND Senate, and then requires a 3/4 majority of states.

That bar seems entirely too high. Perhaps add an over-ride by 2/3rds of Circuit courts. There are 13 circuit courts, so 9? You get 9 / 13 courts saying “No, that’s a shitty decision.” Should be good enough to vacate.

I should have said “modern fantasy genre”. It didn’t really exist before Tolkien. Closest is probably Robert E. Howard (1925-1936) who is roughly contemporaneous with Tolkien (the Hobbit was published in 1937, though it had been completed in 1932).

Well, considering the alternative… but it was a hell of an experience and the post operative complications continue 6-7 years later.

I’m mixed.

Chronicles of Riddick was Macbeth.

Tolkien. Copied over and over again. Essentially invented the fantasy genre.

Easier to say which books I WOULDN’T read again.

The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just interminable.

There was another book, I can’t recall the name of it unfortunately. It was about ethical non-monogamy but went into such blatantly STUPID territory that I classed it as “should not be set aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.”

One of the more stupid statements was about how gangbang porn is prevalent (multiple men, one woman), but the inverse doesn’t exist. I was like “Fuck off, you aren’t looking very hard then…”

Edit My wife assures me it was “Sex at Dawn”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Dawn

10" chest scar from open heart surgery. Some days I wake up, forget its there, then see it in the bathroom mirror.

“Ooooh… riiiight… that was a whole thing.”

All of the above.