Tuesday: Hili dialogue

June 13, 2023 • 6:52 am

Good morning on The Cruelest Day of the week: it’s Tuesday, June 13, 2023, and National Cupcake Lover’s Day. Given the position of the apostrophe, is only one one cupcake lover being honored here?

Here’s a fancy duck-in-a-pond cupcake to celebrate the day, although Botany Pond is still duckless:

There will be no readers’ wildlife post today as I am down to only a few contributions and must dole them out sparingly.

It’s also Call Your Doctor Day, Weed Your Garden Day,  World Pet Memorial Day, World Softball Day, and International Albinism Awareness Day.

Here is my memorial to Teddy, my beloved cat and the last cat I had. A three-year-old feral street cat, he came in through the cat door and never went out again:

Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this by consulting the June 13 Wikipedia page.

Wine of the Day:  This puppy below, priced at $26, is a 2020 Rioja, made from 100% garnacha grapes, And it’s named after a cat. How could I not buy it?  I drank the first half it two days ago with my weekly T-bone, which in this case was a fat strip steak—well marbled and even tastier than a T-bone.

The wine was medium-bodied (on the full side) but delicious, redolent of roses and of raspberries. I know this because that very morning I’d had toast with seedless raspberry jam on it. There aren’t many reviews online, but here’s one from the store where I bought it:

“This stylish Garnacha hails from a vineyard that was planted in 1917 and occupies an amphitheatre at 650 meters. The red soils give this some ferrous grip, with subtle reduction, fine tannins, deftly handled new wood and a long, mineral etched finish. 2024-2030.” – 94 Points, Tim Atkin (2022)

The wine store adds this:

The “Peña El Gato” comes from a single, tiny .5-hectare vineyard of organically-farmed, low-yielding, hand-harvested 100-year old Garnacha vines planted at a high elevation of 2100 feet on limestone/clay soils. This special parcel, which he inherited from his grandfather, yields a mere 1200 bottles of wine! That is only 100 cases!

It’s not often I buy a wine that was made in only a 100-case lot.   I finished it off last night with roast chicken, and it had improved in the bottle. After all, a three-year-old Rioja from a good estate will improve for some years and some aeration. (Sadly, I have only one bottle.) As for the value, I’d say this was worth at least 1.5X more than I paid for it. And, as always, I recommend that, if you want a good red at a price that won’t break the bank, ask your wine merchant to recommend a good Rioja. Or, better yet, check the reviews online.

Da Nooz:

*Obituaries first. Silvio Berlesconi, Italian media mogul and then controversial Prime Minister, died of leukemia yesterday morning in Milan. He was 86.

His victory demoralized a generation of the left. Opponents were both obsessed with Mr. Berlusconi and utterly vexed by him, a politician who seemed to be made of electoral Teflon despite a raft of international faux pas, failures to deliver on pie-in-the-sky promises and the tanking of the Italian economy.

Liberal politicians, and the prosecutors he demonized as their judicial wing, watched in dismay as he used appeals and statutes of limitations to avoid punishment despite being convicted of false accounting, bribing judges and illegal political party financing.

His governments spent an inordinate amount of time on laws that seemed tailor-made to protect him from decades of corruption trials, a goal that some of his closest advisers acknowledged was why he had entered politics in the first place.

*Trump will be arraigned today. The NYT tells us what to expect.

Mr. Trump has said the hearing will be at 3 p.m. His team has been discussing security arrangements and procedures for the event with the authorities, and it is not yet clear how certain details will be handled.

Criminal defendants who are taken into custody before an initial court appearance are often handcuffed, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot. In April, however, authorities in New York only took Mr. Trump’s fingerprints and did not handcuff or photograph him.

It is also not yet clear which judge will oversee the hearing.

Mr. Trump’s case has been assigned to Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who earlier handled a lawsuit he filed challenging the F.B.I.’s court-authorized search of his Florida estate and club, Mar-a-Lago. That search came in August, after Mr. Trump had not fully cooperated with a subpoena requiring him to give back all the documents with classification markings that he still had.

Mr. Trump never appeared before Judge Cannon during the earlier lawsuit, so if she handles Tuesday’s hearing, it would bring them face to face. But such hearings are often instead overseen by a magistrate judge. On Tuesday, that could be the magistrate who works with Judge Cannon, Bruce Reinhart — who signed the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago — or it could be whatever magistrate judge is on duty at the Miami courthouse.

. . . At the hearing, Mr. Trump is likely to stand quietly next to his lawyer until the judge gives him permission to speak. It is also not yet clear whether Mr. Trump will return for an arraignment later or enter his expected plea of not guilty on Tuesday to eliminate a need to come back for that step.

AN UPDATE:  Mr. Trump was expected to be arrested on Tuesday, but it was unclear whether U.S. marshals would take his fingerprints or photograph him. Those measures are normally used to help identify defendants, but when Mr. Trump was arraigned on unrelated state charges in New York in April, officials felt they were unnecessary given the former president’s level of fame.

Still, it was possible they could happen on Tuesday. Mr. Trump also could have to surrender his passport.

It was also unclear whether the public would get a glimpse of Mr. Trump as he arrived at the courthouse. The former president was expected to enter and exit through an underground garage. In the federal court system, there are no photographs or cameras allowed in the courtroom.

No perp walk; at least not one that we’ll see. Apparently The Donald will enter the courthouse through an underground tunnel, so we don’t get to see him in cuffs with his arms held by the feds.  And I’m upset that, even if he’s convicted, he may not spend a day in prison.

h/t: Dom

*Yesterday’s poll on whether Trump will wind up in jail gave a depressing results: most people (56%) think that Donald Trump will never go to jail (and remember, he’s already indicted and has three more investigations going, and less than half that (26%) think he’ll ever see the inside of a cell.  The rest don’t know, and of course that’s the wisest choice, but it’s no fun. Given that his own attorney general, William Barr, thinks that the evidence in the Miami trial is so strong that Trump is “toast”, I guess these folks think he’ll be convicted and then sentenced to house arrest—at Mar-A-Lago.  And what if he’s convicted several more times?  What this shows is that our readers don’t believe in “equal justice under the law”, with the rich getting off easier.

Chat GPT is in the last column:

As an AI language model, I cannot predict the future, so I cannot say for certain whether Donald Trump will go to jail or not. The question of whether someone goes to jail depends on various factors, including legal proceedings, evidence, and the decision of a court. As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, Donald Trump had not been convicted of any crimes that would result in his imprisonment. However, political and legal situations can change over time, so it is advisable to follow the news and consult reliable sources for the most up-to-date information on any ongoing investigations or legal proceedings involving Donald Trump.

*You’ve surely read about the small-plane crash in a Colombian jungle that killed three people and the mother of four children, who were also aboard. (The father wasn’t on the flight and is still here to take care of the children.)  The remarkable thing is that the children, seated in the rear of the plane, all survived—for more than five weeks in the jungle. The WaPo gives some details:

The four children found alive after surviving for 40 days in a Colombian jungle were told by their mother to leave the site of a plane crash and seek help, their father said. According to the oldest child, their mother lived for about four days after surviving the impact of the crash that left the group stranded in the wilderness, their father, Manuel Ranoque, told reporters Sunday.

Rescuers found the siblings, ages 13, 9, 4 and 1, on Friday, after combing the remote area of Amazon wilderness for five weeks, tracking scattered signs of their survival that included a makeshift shelter and half-eaten fruit. The children are recovering in a hospital.

Last month, searchers found the wreckage and the bodies of three adults, including the children’s mother, but the siblings — who are members of the Huitoto Indigenous group — had left the crash site. Details are slowly emerging about how they managed to survive for 40 days.

I would have thought that in this circumstance—a crash in a very remote area—it would have been best to stay with the plane, but what do I know? It goes on:

Fidencio Valencia, an uncle, told reporters over the weekend that the siblings initially sustained themselves on cassava flour known as fariña, which was being transported aboard the aircraft, according to the Associated Press. The flour is a common source of carbohydrates in the Amazon region. “When the plane crashed, they took out a fariña, and with that, they survived,” Valencia said. “After the fariña ran out, they began to eat seeds.”

In an interview with El Tiempo newspaper, rescuer Henry Guerrero said the children also found one of 100 emergency supply kits scattered by the military — as well as wild fruits and plants in the jungle.

On Sunday, Colombia’s military released images of two colorful drawings produced by the two eldest children from their hospital. “This drawing represents the hope of an entire country,” military officials tweeted.

It’s amazing that the children, including the youngest, survived, but very sad that their mother died after about four days at the crash site. Here are their two drawings; the first one has a cat! (Click drawing to see. Could it be Ceiling Cat, who may have wrought this miracle?)

 

*Once again we have social media canceling the publication of an already-reviewed and published scientific paper—on ideological grounds. As is reported widely (as summarized here by Leor Sair and Colin Wright, and there’s a long explanation here), From the first link:

A case in point: Springer, an academic publishing giant, has decided to retract an article that appeared last month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. The retraction is expected to take effect June 12.

The article’s authors are listed as Michael Bailey and Suzanna Diaz. Mr. Bailey is a well-respected scientist, with dozens of publications to his name. The other author writes under a pseudonym to protect the privacy of her daughter, who suffers from gender dysphoria.

Their new paper is based on survey responses from more than 1,600 parents who reported that their children, who were previously comfortable in their bodies, suddenly declared a transgender identity after extensive exposure to social media and peer influence. Mr. Bailey’s and Ms. Diaz’s sin was to analyze rapid onset gender dysphoria, or ROGD. Gender activists hate any suggestion that transgender identities are anything but innate and immutable. Even mentioning the possibility that trans identity is socially influenced or a phase threatens their claims that children can know early in life they have a permanent transgender identity and therefore that they should have broad access to permanent body-modifying and sterilizing procedures.

Within days of publication, a group of activists wrote a public letter condemning the article and calling for the termination of the journal’s editor. Among the letter’s signatories is Marci Bowers, a prominent genital surgeon and president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, an advocacy organization that promotes sex changes for minors.

The social-media mob, who doesn’t like the idea—surely correct in some instances—that people can become transsexual in part because of social-media pressure, swung into action:

Nearly 2,000 researchers and academics signed a counter letter in support of the article. Springer nonetheless decided to retract the paper without disciplining its editor. Springer initially asserted that the study needed approval from an institutional review board. But it quickly abandoned that rationale, which was false.

The publisher now maintains that the retraction is due to improper participant consent. While the respondents consented to the publication of the survey’s results, Springer insists they didn’t specifically agree to publication in a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal. That’s a strange and retrospective requirement, especially considering that Springer and other major publishers have published thousands of survey papers without this type of consent.

Anyone familiar with the controversy over transgender medicine knows what is going on. Activists put pressure on Springer to retract an article with conclusions they didn’t like, and Springer caved in. We’ve become accustomed to seeing these capitulations in academia, media and the corporate world, but it is especially disturbing to see in a respected medical journal.

The publisher’s excuse is thing gruel: the participants agreed to have the data published (it’s anonymous, of course), but Springer argues, “well, they didn’t agree to have it published in our journsl.”  That is pathetic; it’s crystal clear that the paper was retracted simply because it was ideologically offensive to gender activists.

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili wants to dine al fresco:

Hili: It’s time for a little something.
Szaron: That’s right, but I’m going to the kitchen.
In Polish:
Hili: Pora na małe co nieco.
Szaron: Zgoda, ale ja idę do kuchni.

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From Nicole:

From Pet Jokes & Puns:

From Jesus of the Day:

From Masih, another tweet on the latest murder of an Iranian protestor:

From Barry: the owl binary:

From Malcolm, what a rainbow looks like from above:

 

An eloquent 6-minute speech by a woman arguing for “women’s spaces”. Reader Rosemary adds that “This ‘speech’ was made during Posie Parker’s LetWomenSpeak event in Vienna on June 10.” (This isn’t Posie Parker.)

From the Auschwitz Memorial, a 7-year-old girl gassed on arrival. Look at that smile!

Tweets from Dr. Cobb. The first one shows an American enchanted by the Brit habit of sharing a packet of crisps (potato chips) in pubs.  There aren’t many chips in those pub bags, either!

I know a lot of people who dance like this:

This is apparently real, as recounted by the CBC. Nobody was swallowed, though.

21 thoughts on “Tuesday: Hili dialogue”

  1. On this day:
    313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. [I wonder how different world history would be if this had stuck?]

    1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

    1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

    1895 – Émile Levassor wins the world’s first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 miles per hour (24 km/h).

    1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

    1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.

    1944 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank. [Here’s hoping that Ukraine have a few tank aces up their sleeve, although they’ve already done pretty well at destroying Russian armoured vehicles so far.]

    1944 – World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

    1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as “Mirandizing”).

    1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

    1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

    1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

    2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

    2005 – The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.

    2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.

    2018 – Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal. [I don’t believe that European consumers got an equivalent compensation deal to those in the US?]

    Births:
    1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829). [Made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone.]

    1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879).

    1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939).

    1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961).

    1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967).

    1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957).

    1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978).

    1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association (d. 2001).

    1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015).

    1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer.

    1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations.

    1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor.

    1953 – Tim Allen, American actor, comedian, and producer.

    1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright.

    1968 – David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

    “Come on, Mr Spangler, you don’t want me to get into trouble, do you?” said the hangman, patting him on the shoulder. “Just a few words, and then we can all get on with our lives. Present company excepted, obviously.”
    1550 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (b. 1485).

    1762 – Dorothea Erxleben, first German female doctor (b. 1715).

    1861 – Henry Gray, English anatomist and surgeon (b. 1827).

    1886 – Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (b. 1845). [Also called the Swan King or der Märchenkönig (“the Fairy Tale King”), he was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. Outside Germany, he is more commonly called “the Mad King” or “Mad King Ludwig”.]

    1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909).

    1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924).

    2021 – Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937).

  2. Or, more likely, our readers do believe IN equal justice under the law, but do not believe that currently in the US, there IS equal justice under the law. We need to make an is out of an ought.

    1. Absolutely, Jim – I was going to make a similar point but you’ve beaten me to it.

    2. I see it as a practical issue: I have no doubt there would be people in prison that would like to hurt or kill Trump. How do you protect him from that? If not house arrest, I think you’d need to build a custom prison just for him but you would have to give him some options for interacting with other people (permanent solitary would undoubtedly be considered cruel and unusual punishment). House arrest seems more likely to me.

      I’ll be happy if he is convicted, faces at least some consequences, and most importantly, doesn’t get back in office. I’m not convinced the country can survive him getting back in office.

      1. If Trump is ever sent to prison, it will certainly be a minimum security one. It’s highly unlikely that he would be shivved there.

      2. Trump’s imprisonment would likely be done by confining him to his Florida estate. This is bc regular prison would be unsafe and also very difficult and onerous for a secret service detail to do their job in even a minimal security prison.
        But while confined to his Florida mansion (gag), it should be the case that he is managed as if it were prison in some ways. I don’t think that prisoners can have much of a presence on social media, for example.

        He should also be taught a useful skill while confined.

  4. The poll numbers is disappointing. Maybe they couldn’t find the link. I had to go to your other site as I couldn’t find in on WordPress. There are most likely a lot of trumpers who voted. Trump is going to jail. GROG

  5. If I may include a version of my comment from yesterday:

    There have been other children that survived long periods in the jungle after a plane crash. The most famous was Juliane Koepcke, daughter of famous ornithologist Maria Koepcke. They were both passengers in a plane that broke up in mid-air over the Amazon and crashed. Maria was killed but Juliane was thrown from the plane (still in her seat) and fell ten thousand feet to hit the jungle below. Incredibly she survived the fall. She remembers seeing the forest from above; she said it looked like broccoli. She was hurt and almost without food and it took her eleven days to walk out to civilization.

    Here is a nice account, with quotes from Juliane:
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-02/the-girl-who-fell-3km-into-the-amazon-and-survived/101413154

    1. I recommend this documentary by famous filmmaker Werner Herzog:

      Wings of Hope is a 1998 made-for-TV documentary directed by Werner Herzog. The film explores the story of Juliane Koepcke, a German Peruvian woman who was the sole survivor of Peruvian flight LANSA Flight 508 following its mid-air disintegration after a lightning strike in 1971. Herzog was inspired to make this film since he had narrowly avoided taking the same flight while he was location scouting for Aguirre, Wrath of God; his reservation had been canceled due to a last minute change in itinerary.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Hope_(film)

      You can find it on YouTube, dubbed in English.

      Here’s a recent New York Times article (June 2021):
      PROFILES IN SCIENCE
      The Biologist Who Fell to Earth
      At 17, Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.
      https://archive.is/R18Fr

      I also like this:
      Juliane Koepcke: When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman’s Miraculous Survival. 2011
      https://www.amazon.com/When-Fell-Sky-Miraculous-Survival/dp/185788583X

      1. Thanks for adding these links. It truly is one of the most amazing survival stories ever.

  6. … Silvio Berlesconi, Italian media mogul and then controversial Prime Minister, died of leukemia yesterday morning in Milan.

    There was a pretty good 2018 Italian film by Paolo Sorrentino based loosely on the life and times of Silvio Berlesconi entitled Loro. Think Fellini meets Wolfe of Wall Street meets American Hustle:

  7. The editor of Springer Nature that the TRAs failed to get fired is Ken Zucker, a guy with lots of experience of cancellation. He was in charge of the gender unit at CAMH in Toronto, and has the best long term follow up information about what happens with watch and wait – every time you see the “80-90% will desist and become happily gay” datum, that’s his work. He got dismissed over a trumped up charge of conversion therapy (apparently that’s what watch and wait is to the ‘Rainbow Health Coalition’), so he sued CAMH and won an apology and half a million dollars.

  8. It is also not yet clear which judge will oversee [Trump’s] hearing.

    It’s standard practice in the Southern District of Florida for initial appearances and arraignments to be handled by the weekly “duty magistrate.” It’s my understanding that the duty magistrate this week in the Miami Division of the SD Fla is Mag. Jonathan Goodman. (Magistrate-judges are sort of junior members of the federal judiciary; they are not appointed for life by the president, but for a term of years by the local district court judges. They are, thus, not “Article III” judges under the US constitution and cannot preside at trials or decide dispositive motions.)

    Trump will definitely make his initial appearance this afternoon (at which he will be advised of the charges against him and the conditions of his release will be set). Under the Local Rules of the Southern District of Florida, the court will be able to proceed with Trump’s arraignment — the initiation of formal adversarial judicial proceedings, at which the defendant enters a plea — only if at least one member of his legal defense team is a member of both the Florida Bar and the trial bar of the Southern District of Florida. That local lawyer can then move to have any out-of-state lawyers on the legal team admitted pro hac vice.

  10. Hi PCCE,

    You always make fun of the singular possessive day, like “Cupcake Lover’s Day.” But I think it makes sense. It’s the singular that stands for the universal. It says, “Are you a cupcake lover? Then today is for you.” Regardless of how many other cupcake lovers there may be.

    I guess I find it natural because that’s how it is in Polish, my first language. We say “Dzien Matki” (Mother’s Day), not “Dzien Matek” (Mothers’ Day).

    It’s like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Nobody says, “Well, which unknown soldier is it? There were millions of unknown soldiers!” It’s understood that the Unknown Soldier (singular) stands for *all* the soldiers who fought and died and rest in unmarked graves.

  11. “And I’m upset that, even if he’s convicted, he may not spend a day in prison.”

    The reason I’m seeing touted for this is that, as an ex president Trump is assigned secret service protection for life and he can not be protected by them if he’s in prison.

    This raises the obvious question: What? Does that mean Trump can do ANYTHING and not go to prison? Can he murder someone and not spend a moment in prison?
    And if there is a crime for which he would actually go to prison…why not this one?

    I’d really like to see answers for this.

    1. Vaal,

      As a great philosopher once said:
      “Patriotism is the last refuge
      to which a scoundrel clings
      Steal a little and they put you in jail
      Steal a lot and they make you king”
      (Bob Dylan)

    2. Aren’t you getting a little ahead of yourself? Why not wait to see if he is convicted of this one first?

      Would house arrest adequately protect society from recidivism? In Trump’s case, surely yes because he will not again have access to the documents he is accused of purloining and obstructing justice over. For that matter he could be set free, for all the risk he poses now, provided he doesn’t get re-elected of course. Gleeful calls to imprison him speak of nothing but retribution, which is irrational under determinism. What about the value of deterrence of a singular crime of 250 years of the Republic? The particles in the brains of subsequent presidents are unlikely to need the further instruction offered by this one losing his Secret Service protection so he could go to prison. But I could be persuaded otherwise.

      1. Leslie I think you’ve taken things on a tangent away from the original concern.
        I don’t want anyone who isn’t guilty to be imprisoned, so obviously we wait for the outcome of a trial.

        The point is, what is the *law,* in it’s practical application, in terms of how it applies to a President committing crimes vs a regular citizen?

        How far does the proposition “We can’t put him in prison because secret service couldn’t protect him” actually go?

        I presume you don’t think the prisons should be totally emptied, and that there is justification for imprisoning people for certain crimes. Pick one of those, as you wish – pick the “worst” one – and then we ask “does it make sense a regular person would be imprisoned, but not Trump?”

  12. The marvels of nature: “Lichens are fungi that have discovered agriculture” (Trevor Goward). Until yesterday (when I saw the following video on the fantastic biology YouTube channel “Journey to the Microcosmos”) I didn’t know that lichens aren’t one kind of organism but two kinds of organisms living in symbiosis:

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