ICYMU: This Week in Gnuville
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WineRev’s Good and Goofy Notes
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WineRev, last Sunday:
So now comes Sunday, THE Trial Eve Sunday, and 2thanks has gotten things rolling for the Good News Roundup. Of course, Donald Trump actually, for real, no stopping now, 24 hours away and counting down, going under the Bar of Justice in CRIMINAL COURT on Felony charges----well that is a whole, rolling-thunder Good News event. The relief among all the rest of us in the world who are not authoritarians or MAGAs is palpable. (And the definition of Moral Schadenfreude at the end of the diary is Spot On!)
[The definition WineRev referred to, from my diary last week, the third type of schadenfreude: ‘Justice-based schadenfreude comes from seeing that behavior seen as immoral or "bad" is punished. It is the pleasure associated with seeing a "bad" person being harmed or receiving retribution. Schadenfreude is experienced here because it makes people feel that fairness has been restored for a previously unpunished wrong, and is a type of moral emotion.’ (Wikipedia) ~2thanks]
[Back to WineRev] So with all that going on, the Gnuville Breakfast Brunch has been gaveled open with sound effects from the “Law & Order” franchise. All the staff are moving around in judicial robes or bailiff uniforms. The Morning Beverage Station has servers set up as Court Reporters, serving up Stenographic Coffee (all focused and to the point; Gk. “Steno”-narrow, “graphos”- writing), Staccato Tea, or Joe Friday Mocha-Cocoa (“Just the facts, ma’am”), while the Mimosa bar has a special on Ratt-a-Tat Raspberry Right Now in a fluted glass.
Breakfast food is for ordering too: Stipulated Eggs, Pancakes or Toast ‘In Limine’, Toasted Testimony of various flavors, and Sustained Cereals alternating with Over-ruled Orange juice.
The Courtroom Lounge has pixel streams streaming everywhere, gallery seating (with sketch pads and sketch artists for hire) NOT in oak chairs or benches but recliners, wing backs and sofas. The Witness Wi-Fi channels allow for comments, recs, links, instant legal references and precedents, and the Affable Affidavit Staffers handle technical issues while refilling drinks and plates. Thank you for getting our Sunday launched, 2thanks. And that thanks from all of us is So Moved and So Ordered. (Cue gavel thwack…..)
I should have known, since WineRev has done this to me before, but last week he caught me by surprise again and made me laugh delight — long, lots, and repeatedly. Made me, I say. [Yes, I used laugh transitively, from Late Latin transitivus "transitive," literally "passing over (to another person)," from transire "cross over, go over, pass over, hasten over, pass away," from trans "across, beyond" (see trans-) + ire "to go".]
I bet WineRev gives great sermons both extemporaneously and temporaneously. Let’s all surprise him the next time he gets behind his Lutheran pulpit of a Sunday morning. What would he say if he looked out across attentive congregational faces to see scores or tens or fives of Gnuville Township totalers and teatotalers and coffeetotalers, each of us contemporaneously lifting a cheer-full cup of Steno Coffee, Staccato Tea, or Joe-Friday Mocha-Cocoa (with or without a fluffy dollop of Happy-Slurp Whipped Cream), or a glass of Ratt-a-Tat-Raspberry Right-Now Mimosa in a fluted glass, totally full?
What would WineRev say?
Science
Another do-not-miss edition of the …
Rise above the swamp, member of Daily Kos:
- Testing urine for prostate cancer
- “Fool’s Gold” may fuel our future
- The “new” science of menstruation
- Geothermal, ‘a limitless supply beneath our feet’
- Strategies for helping the homeless
- Mud house construction techniques
- And much more …
Please share good science news with us! (Especially JSWT, health, environment.)
A good place to look for science news if you are waiting for the Sunday Roundup is the archive of Overnight News Digest. On Saturdays, the OND always focuses on science, though not all of it is devoted to what I would call Good Science News.
Need more good news?
… arhpdx posted a list of good news sites toward the top of a recent Roundup, or you can find that same list in my comment: Good News Sources. Thank you, arhpdx and Mokurai!
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Where Ever is Herd
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A Little Bit About Me: A Fun Fact
As I mentioned once before, The Guardian amended an article on January 1, 2024, based on my correction of the renowned historian, Eric Foner.
[“According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author in college syllabi for history courses.[1] According to historian Timothy Snyder, Foner was the first to associate the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 with section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.[2] “ (Wikipedia)]
Dear [2thanks],
Belated thanks for your email.
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you, but the article [Searching for the perfect republic: Eric Foner on the 14th amendment, and if it might stop Trump] has now been amended to name Jacob Howard [instead of James Howard], and a footnote added to explain the change.
Best wishes,
Guardian readers' editor's office
The Guardian added the following footnote: “This article was amended on 1 January 2024 because an earlier version quoted Foner as saying: “We don’t remember James Howard, from Michigan, who got [the 14th amendment] through the Senate”. That meant to refer to the Michigan senator Jacob Howard.”
Please give me my 15 minutes of fame now. 😉
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2thanks (he, him)