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Along the road, we passed a sign:
SCENIC
ALTERNATE
PHILLIPSVILLE
I wondered why Phillipsville needed a scenic alternate. Everyone laughed, and we moved on.
The law defines "social network Web site" as "any Internet Web site designed with the intent of allowing users to build networks or connect with other people and that provides means for users to interact over the Internet."
This definition is, unfortunately, completely unworkable.
[Some background: the case came to the Ninth Circuit as an appeal from a summary judgment - the district court had ruled that the prisoner simply had no case and that there was no need for a trial. The Ninth Circuit isn't saying that the prisoner wins and that the lockdowns are per se unconstitutional, it's just saying there's enough of a controversy to warrant a trial.]
A light read, perhaps, a diversion for bathtime, but nothing more.
So far so good.
Congress had reserved to itself, however, the right to overturn that suspension. By a bill passed by a bare majority of a single house, without presidential signature, it could direct the AG to undo the suspension of deportation of particular individuals.
How was that not a bill of attainder?
Oddly, though, a look back at a decade ago is easier.
I was therefore floored by The Windup Girl. It has joined Earth Abides and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind as one of my favorite post-apocalyptic novels.
MH is coming down from even further north, to let her show him San Francisco before she leaves.
Such events require a husimeet, to bid him hello, and her farewell.
for dinner tonight: garlic mashed potatos, fried kielbasa.
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