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 Wednesday, November 16, 2022

In bed around 9:30, up at 4:45, no vino.  32 cloudy degrees, high of 38 expected, cloudy all day

Favorite Rhinestone from Trump Announcement Speech

“I’ve gone decades — decades — without a war, the first president to do it that long.”

Nowhere Man

He's a real nowhere man

Sitting in his nowhere land

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn't have a point of view

Knows not where he's going to

Isn't he a bit like you and me?

He's as blind as he can be

Just sees what he wants to see

Nowhere man, can you see me at all?

Nowhere man, don't worry

Take your time, don't hurry

Leave it all 'till somebody else lends you a hand

He's a real nowhere man

Sitting in his nowhere land

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Robin Vos says he's willing to make filing a police report a requirement to prove rape or incest for obtaining an abortion

The vast majority − 77% − of sexual assaults are not reported to police, according to 2020 data from the U.S. Department of Justice.  "If the only way to access abortion is for a victim of sexual violence to report to law enforcement, they're going to have to engage with a system that most survivors don't want to engage with," said Ian Henderson, policy and systems director of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

Poetic Outlaws

 "We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink."~ Patti Smith

Two Kinds of People in the World, Those Who Like Squirrels . . .

My increasingly reductionist mind enjoys dichotomies like 'the world is divided into Nazis and Jews' and '2 kinds of people in the world, those who go out of their way to avoid running over a squirrel in the road and those who go out of their way to run over a squirrel in the road.'  My beloved wife would never purposefully run over any animal in the road.  On the other hand, she has no tolerance for squirrels climbing up the bird feeders and noshing on food intended for the birds.  I on the other hand love watching their resourcefulness and agility.  C'est la vie and vive la difference.

Diabetes

Video conference with Jill Hanson at Zablocki VAMC today.  A1c is 6.6.  Great news.  Jardiance and Trulicity, both expensive medications provided to me gratis by the VA, along with all my other medications, 8 pills every morning, 7 more in the afternoon, another 1 in the evening.

Yale and Harvard Law Schools Abandon U.S. News Rankings

A disservice to those who relied on them from the get-go.  A cause of anxiety for all law schools except the wealthiest which serve the wealthiest client-class, i.e., schools like Yale and Harvard.  A pander to Americans foolish infatuation with rank-ordering lists.

Washington Trip

Geri reserved seats on Southwest for December 16 - December 19.  Report from Katherine today: Jimmy more confused than ever.