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 Friday, October 14, 2022

In bed at 9:30, awake at 3:30, unable to sleep, got up sometime after 4, 5 pss, 2 glasses of red.  38 degrees outside, high of 50 is expected.

January 6

We watched the entire January 6 committee hearing in the afternoon, in large measure repetitive of presentations at earlier hearings, but adding some new inculpatory material and raising serious questions about the involvement of the Secret Service and cover-up destruction of text messages on 1/5 and 1/6.  News reports had it that the Secret Service was at last 'cooperating' with the committee by turning over a million or 1 and 1/2 million records, largely emails it seems.  Experienced litigators know this is not 'cooperation'; it is the practice of frustrating discovery by burying the diamonds in the dung heap, the needles in the haystack.  Quaere: was the Secret Service corrupt, or at least corruptible, before Trump or is this just another example of the truth of the title of Rick Wilson's book: "Everything Trump Touches Dies"? Spent much of the evening catching the rehash of the hearings on CNN and MSNBC, much attention is given to the decision to issue a subpoena to Trump, even though everyone knows he will never appear or testify.

The highlight of the day was Nancy Pelosi reacting when told that Trump might be coming to the Capitol on 1/6: “I hope he comes, I’m gonna punch him out… I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m gonna punch him out, I’m gonna go to jail, and I’m gonna be happy.”

Dick Cheney, August 4, 2022

"In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."

Jamie Raskin Insight

"The six most frightening words on January 6 were "I'm not getting into that car."

My Country T'is of Thee

A gunman opened fire in an eastern Raleigh, N.C., neighborhood Thursday afternoon, killing at least five people and leaving multiple people injured, authorities said.

A suspect was taken into custody nearly five hours after the shooting began, Raleigh Police said on Twitter. The suspect is a juvenile, Lt. Jason Borneo, a police spokesman, told reporters. Borneo declined to comment on the suspect’s motivations or confirm the age, saying the incident was still “an active investigation.”

There have been 530 mass shooting incidents so far this year, according to Gun Violence Archive. North Carolina logged 1,699 deaths — or about 16 for every 100,000 people— from firearms in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty states had higher death rates.

Michel de Montaigne

 “[I]n truth, what are these things I scribble, other than grotesques and monstrous bodies, made of various parts, without any certain figure, or any other than accidental order, coherence, or proportion?”

“I would have preferred to publish my whimsies as letters if I had had anyone to write to.” Or to text to.

Algorithms Have Limits

My iPhone reminded me that today is Bill Guis's birthday and that I should wish him a happy birthday.  Bill died several years ago.

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An unproductive day, no drawing, no painting, little reading.  Maybe because of too little sleep.  Maybe not.