SUNNY MONDAY

 It's a new week and the sun is out. Here's our thoughts.

Need a continuance in federal court? Here's a quick out. Become of counsel to one of those firms that the Idiot has attacked. Part of his executive order bars their employees from entering federal buildings. 

"Dear Judge Altonaga- I must inform you that I cannot try the case set next week. The President has barred employees from Wilmer Hale from entering the premises of federal buildings, and I recently became of counsel to Wilmer Hale. I'd be happy to see if Judge Sayfie can lend us one of the State Courtrooms for this case."

El Herald reports that Canadians are canceling their vacation plans to South Florida. Guess MAGA doesn't mean MFLGA. 

Meanwhile the SAO just keeps trying to hide from their malfeasance: "if we ignore it, it will go away"  which is not far removed from George Costanza's famous idiom "It's not a lie Jerry if you believe it".  No real remedial actions. They've done NOTHING to restore the Bench and Bar's confidence in their office. So call them out on it. If they make a promise in Court, remind the Judge what they have done and why you cannot take them at their word.

How's the economy treating you? Price of eggs dropped? Price of new cars dropped.? How's your 401K doing? Market have any confidence in The Idiot? Just asking. 

As for that third term? Just look at what Putin did and you'll understand what is in his feeble mind. 

Watch the special election for the seat vacated by ace National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in Florida's Sixth. A reliably R seat, the Dem has raised ten million and is making it a competitive race in a district The Idiot won by 30. It's a mostly older district. Hope they are enjoying themselves if they need to contact social security. Things are so bad at the agency the Idiot's henchman is gutting that supervisors are answering the receptionist's phones. The website was down four of the last ten days. MAGA so long as you're not a retiree who has paid their money into the system and now is a victim of a Government sponsored "Rug Pull". If you don't know what a RP is, Google it- or ask a 20 something.  

Meanwhile, it turns out Waltz friended a bunch of North Korean spies on Facebook and added them on his Snap and Tik Tok accounts. His Tik Tok is racking up some serious views as he posts our attack plans before they occur. The Idiot has mused about paying for military strikes by posting them first on Tik Tok and monetarizing social media to pay for the military. Can't argue with that reasoning. 

*NB: When we refer to him as The Idiot, it is an ironic play on the novel by Dostoevsky- a book we assure you he has never read.  

*NB is latin for Note Bene which means "note well" or "take note". 

NB our country is being run by amateurish fools. 

RAINY SUNDAY

 Let's talk about something different. 

We contend there are no more poetic words in any rock song than these from Thunder Road: 

So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright
Oh, and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets

Well now, I'm no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey, what else can we do now?

Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well, the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks

DUMB AND DUMBER

 Hillary Clinton called Trump dumb and his administration dumber in an op ed piece for the NY Times here. 

The Trump administration wanted to reply, but no one in the administration reads the Times. 

This was the opening line: 

It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity. 

Then it got worse.

Firing hundreds of federal workers charged with protecting our nation’s nuclear weapons is also dumb. So is shutting down efforts to fight pandemics just as a deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading in Africa. It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats and spies at a time when rivals like China and Russia are trying to expand their global reach.

And then this: 

The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless.

And this: 

Does anyone really think deleting tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen makes us more safe? The Trump Pentagon purged images of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb that ended World War II because its name is the Enola Gay. Dumb

(The answer is yes. The idiots Trump appointed to run the Pentagon think its more important to remove pictures of the Enola Gay then keep tight security on impending military action) 

All of this is both dumb and dangerous. And I haven’t even gotten to the damage Mr. Trump is doing by cozying up to dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, blowing up our alliances — force multipliers that extend our reach and share our burdens — and trashing our moral influence by undermining the rule of law at home. 

And this gem: 

Diplomacy is cost-effective, especially compared with military action. Preventing wars is cheaper than fighting them. Mr. Trump’s own former secretary of defense Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps four-star general, told Congress, “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.”

And she ended with this:

If America is ruled like a banana republic, with flagrant corruption and a leader who puts himself above the law, we lose that argument. We also lose the qualities that have made America exceptional and indispensable.

BASEBALL OPENING DAY 2025

March 27, 2025 Legal Update: 

David O Markus. Lauren Krasnoff. Month plus trial. 

Wait for it....

NOT GUILTY!!!!  Congrats!!! 

IT'S OPENING DAY!
For legions of die-hard fans who closed out the fall of last year stating "wait till next year!", next year is here. 

Just to hit the ball and touch 'em all –
a moment in the sun; It's gone and you can tell that one goodbye!
John Fogerty, Centerfield.
  
This is a blog tradition. We run this post most years. Baseball is important to us.

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Ohhh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. Terrance Mann, Field Of Dreams.



Baseball follows no time. It has a rhythm of it’s own. It’s the only major sport without a time clock.  But now it has a pitch clock and we are not a fan. The strategy is to control the man. Control the match-up.

No matter how you play it, its 3 men up and three men down for nine innings.

It’s a game of statistics- do you bring in your right-handed reliever to face the other teams big right-handed hitter? The stats say yes. And yet…

it’s a game of hunches. When Tommy Lasorda called an injured Kirk Gibson off the bench in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series in the 9th inning, one on, two out, the Dodgers behind 4-3, and the future Hall of Fame Pitcher Dennis Eckersley on the mound , he did so on a hunch. Announcer Jack Buck called the home run, and was moved to exclaim “I don’t believe what I just saw.”

It’s a game of senses.

The glimpse of the green grass in Centerfield when you first walk into Yankee Stadium.
The smell of cut grass and fresh dirt.
The sting of a foul ball off a wood bat on a cold March morning.
The sound of the pop of the ball in the catcher's glove.

Little boys and girls  learn that when they hurt themselves in the game, to rub some dirt on it. Is there any more valuable lesson in life?

The moments are magical, yet simple. It's why memories remain so clear in the rheumy eyes of old men who once played the game.

To take the wide turn past second, stretch a double into a triple, dive in head first, stand up, and dust yourself off.

To move to your own rhythm while you crouch with your glove off of third base, (the hot corner) each hand on a knee, eyes wide as the ball comes off the bat. You scoop up the one hopper and make the throw to first.

Roberto Clemente in game 7 against the Orioles catching the ball in deep right field, whirling and firing a strike to third base- the best throw in the history of the game. 

Willie Mays stalking center field, gliding under a fly ball. 

Hammerin Hank Aaron hitting another one out.

Pudge Fisk hopping and jumping and waving that ball fair.

Mets/ Red Sox. Game six, 1986. Do we need to say anything more?

October 13, 1960. A fading fall light in Pittsburgh. Seventh game of the world series. Ralph Terry on the mound for the Yanks for the bottom of the ninth. The game impossibly tied at 9-9. Bill Mazeroski, the Bucs light-hitting second baseman  takes the first pitch for a ball. The second pitch sails over a dejected Yogi Berra in left field as the city explodes and Maz dances around the bases in the only seventh game-9th inning walk off home run.

Young Dwight Gooden throwing heat, and then snapping off a curve (uncle Charlie, or Lord Charles) for a called third strike. Close your eyes and you can almost see Bob Gibson, standing on the mound in 1968, glaring, before throwing a hard high one inside.

Reggie hitting one out with his first swing on a cold October evening against the Dodgers in the 77 Series. And then another one with his first swing. And then, impossibly, another one with his first swing. Three swings, three home runs. In the World Series. 

Cleon Jones waiting under a fly ball hovering in an ice-blue New York October sky. The ball lands softly into his glove, and Jones falls to one knee for a minute as a man, and stands up as an immortal member of the 1969 Miracle Mets- the fly ball being the last out in the world series that the improbable Mets won. 

Any three guys turning a 4-6-3  double play, but Tinkers to Evans to Chance being the best.

There comes a time in a boy’s life when he stands there at home plate. It's hardball in an organized league. His first real “at bat.” The pitcher is a year older, and maybe thirty pounds heavier. The first pitch comes in so fast he can barely see it. It’s hard to believe anyone can throw that hard. And yet the boy stands there, rubbing some dirt on his hands as he re-grips his bat, kicks his cleats into the ground, and waves his bat. Hopefully menacingly. Just like he's seen it done on TV.

The pitch comes, and suddenly it's in slow motion. He can see the seams on the ball rotating. He can almost smell the ball as he swings. The bat glides across his hips and the plate. It all seems so simple, as a line drive bounces safely in the alley. He turns at first, saunters back, takes off his batting helmet and glove, and puts his foot on the bag, feeling it crunch beneath his foot. He may not know it, but his father is crying in the stands, and he has given himself a memory for life.

Young boys grow up and then grow old. They do their life's work and the game begins to fade away.
But every now and then, right around this time of year, they rummage through their closet and pull out a glove. Or maybe they go to the sporting goods store and buy one for themselves and one for their son or daughter. Then they sit  with their new glove that first night, showing their kid how to oil it up and put a ball in the pocket. And maybe it’s a family tradition to fold that oiled glove over a ball in the pocket and put that glove under your pillow.

And you smell the oil, and the rawhide, and you dream.

Just to hit the ball.
And touch them all.
A moment in sun.
It’s gone and you can kiss that one goodbye.

This is our favoutire post. 

WHERE WERE YOU?

UPDATE BELOW on the professionalism of our new Pentagon and Sec Of Defense 

By now you all have seen the White House memo weaponizing the Department of Justice to go after attorneys who oppose the DOJ and White House in court.  If not, click here. 

The threat is real. Lawyers and Courts represent perhaps the last line of defense against a president bent on destroying the Constitution. The President knows this which is why he is attacking law firms and pulling contracts from them and revoking security clearances of lawyers.  The  latest to buckle under the threat was the NY super firm of Paul Weiss which bowed down to the president on their knees and kissed his ring to secure hundreds of million of dollars in fees. The NY Times reported about the Vichy-French-like surrender here.  

The name Vidkun Quisling comes to mind. 

DOM covers it here as well. 

So what are you going to do? 

"Where were you when the Nazis came for your neighbors?" a generation of German children asked their parents. 

Now it is our time. 

"Where were you when the president threatened lawyers and judges as he dismantled the Constitution, ordered the arrest of those who opposed him, and sent them to prisons in El Salvador?"

If you do not think the El Salvador threat for lawyers and judges is not real, we bet you didn't think the president didn't have a chance to win, and if he won he wouldn't defund most of the government, shut down the department of education, defy federal judges, make universities bow to his will, and deport those who oppose him. 

UPDATE: 

As you know, we are all now much safer since the ridiculous Biden Sec of Defense Four-star General Lloyd Austin was replaced by a Fox TV host who beats women. Who would you rather have as a Secretary of Defense- a former general who devoted his life to the defense of this country, or a failed TV host with an alcohol and anger problem?  

The TV host duh! 

Which is why the NY Times is breaking the story Monday afternoon that our current Sec Of Defense texted on a Signal Group chat with journalists including the editor of the Atlantic that the US Military was planning strikes on Yemen  before they occurred last week. 

Yup, Let that sink in. The current "professionals" put the lives of US pilots at risk by texting an upcoming military strike in a group chat. 

Sec Of Defense: "Yo. Dude like OMG guess what we fixin to do? Launch F18s off a carrier to strike those simps in Yemen. Like Dude in like four hours. They won't know what him them LMFAO!"  

Random Journalist: "OMG No f'ing way dude! Like so f'ing cool. LMFAO when those bombs hit those dudes. Like can u tell me the coordinates and stuff?" 

MAGA! - via Signal group chats baby. 

DOWN GOES FOREMAN

UPDATE: The White House threatened us, so like the law firm Paul Weiss (and Vichy France in 1940)  we capitulated and removed the prior post. Life under occupation 2025.  

In the 1970s three of the coolest guys on the planet were Muhammed Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Throw in Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee, and it's all 70's cool all the time. 

Ali, Fraser and Foreman were inextricably intertwined with each other. (This is still a legal blog in some ways). There would be no Ali without Frazier and Foreman, No Foreman without his destruction of the heavyweight Champ Joe Frazier. And no smokin Joe Frazier without his three epic battles with Ali. 

It started with Ali/Frazier at Madison Square Garden with the fight of century on March 8, 1971. Ali was the linear champion. He lost the title when he refused to be drafted. Joe Frazier was the actual champion but he knew he would never be recognized as such until he fought and beat Ali. 

There may never be a sporting event like this again in our lifetimes. Just about every celebrity in the world who was anyone was there as a spectator (Norman Mailer and Woody Allen), photographer (Frank Sinatra couldn't get a ticket so he got in as a photographer for Life Magazine), or announcer - the actor Bert Lancaster who had never called any sporting event before.

    Frazier beat Ali in a 15 round decision, dropping him with a sweet left hook in the 14th. 

    Meanwhile George Foreman was stalking them both. A glowering 6'4 and 230 pounds of menace and muscle, he was best known for waving the American Flag when he won the gold medal in the same 1968 Olympics that Juan Carlos and Tommie Smith gave a raised fist salute. 

    After Frazier beat Ali, Foreman was looming. He was beating every single opponent by knockout- usually in the first three rounds. He did not have a bout go past the eighth round when he finally met Joe Frazier on January 22, 1973, less than two years after Frazier beat Ali. 

Joe Frazier was the favourite. He was a relentless fighter who kept moving forward, bobbing and weaving to make his opponent miss while he measured him with sharp jabs to set up one of the best left hooks ever seen. Frazier was not just good. He was great. He still stands today as a top five heavyweight champion.  He had no quit in him. He had the heart of a lion. When he fought Ali in Manilla for their third match and was prevented by his corner from answering the bell in the 15th round, Ali fainted. He later said it was as close to death as he ever felt. 

Which puts into context two things. First the utter destruction of Joe Frazier by George Foreman when they met. Foreman knocked Frazier down SIX TIMES in two rounds- the first knock down famously recorded by Howard Cosell who shouted DOWN GOES FRAZIER DOWN GOES FRAZIER DOWN GOES FRAZIER. The knockdown of the heavyweight champion was that shocking and unexpected. The video is below. You just did not do to Joe Frazier what Foreman did to him. And that sets up for a discussion at another time Ali's shocking eighth round knockout of George Foreman with what we contend was the best right hand punch landed in the history of boxing. 

The three of them made each other the stars they were. Ali. Frazier. Foreman. None of them would have been who they were without the other two.  And Cosell calling their bouts made it that much better. And our thoughts about Howard we shall also save for another slow day. 

George Foreman went on to reinvent himself, winning the heavyweight championship as an aging and jolly 45-year-old and then becoming one of America's favourite pitchman with his George Foreman grill (we had one; who didn't?). 

George Foreman was a great champion. And here was his greatest moment. You just did not do to Joe Frazier- one of the greatest fighters in history- what Foreman did to him. Enjoy. And rest in peace Champ. 

Roberts

Wednesday update  

Justice Potter Stewart weighs in 

In 1967, in   Walker v. City of Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307 (1967)
involving the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the claim that he and several colleagues were not entitled to test the constitutionality of a legally questionable court order barring them from demonstrating by marching in Birmingham, Ala.

 Justice Potter Stewart wrote for the majority: 

These precedents clearly put the petitioners on notice that they could not bypass orderly judicial review of the injunction before disobeying it. Any claim that they were entrapped or misled is wholly unfounded, a conclusion confirmed by evidence in the record showing that, when the petitioners deliberately violated the injunction, they expected to go to jail.

The rule of law that Alabama followed in this case reflects a belief that, in the fair administration of justice, no man can be judge in his own case, however exaltedhis station, however righteous his motives, and irrespective of his race, color, politics, or religion.  This Court cannot hold that the petitioners were constitutionally free to ignore all the procedures of the law and carry their battle to the streets. One may sympathize with the petitioners' impatient commitment to their cause. But respect for judicial process is a small price to pay for the civilizing hand of law, which alone can give abiding meaning to constitutional freedom.

Affirmed.

Some of that bears repeating  

In the fair administration of justice, no man can be judge in his own case, however exalted his station, however righteous his motives.

Tuesday update 

You want to know how bad things are for the president? 

A federal judge just ordered the two astronauts returned to space! 

Rumpole update below. 

 For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts said.

Attempts to intimidate judges for their rulings in cases are inappropriate and should be vigorously opposed,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “Public officials certainly have a right to criticize the work of the judiciary, but they should be mindful that intemperance in their statements when it comes to judges may prompt dangerous reactions by others.”

Rumpole  is preoccupied. He asked me to post statements made by chief justice Roberts. The first is a statement made today in response to a statement made by the president that the DC Judge who ruled against him should be impeached. 

The second is a statement the chief judge made in 2018 in response to the same president criticizing a judge as “an Obama Judge”. 

Blog intern. 

Rumpole says: Make no mistake, the MAGA thugs know what they are doing in attacking every judge that rules against the President. It is a campaign of jack-boot intimidation designed to break the American concept of an independent judiciary. Don't let it work. Support those judges who come under attack from the right wing thugs who cannot win an argument on the merits and must resort to intimidation. 

Someday someone is going to ask you where you were and what you did when they tried to destroy the Republic by breaking the Constitution. What will you say? 

A TALE OF TWO SPEECHES

 It was the best of times (April 1, 1940), and the worst of times (March 14, 2025). 

Two speeches to the Department of Justice in the Great Hall of Justice. 

The first speech was given by Robert Jackson on April 1, 1940. The chief prosecutor at the Neurenberg Germany war crimes trials. Jackson was also Attorney General of the United States before serving as a Supreme Court justice where he remains one of the best writers ever to serve on the Court. 

Jackson's April 1, 1940 speech was called The Federal Prosecutor. 

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and simply have a citizen’s friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests, present cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his one-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and held for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense never has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he obtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to sentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended sentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for parole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst.

...

In times of fear or hysteria political, racial, religious, social, and economic groups, often from the best of motives, cry for the scalps of individuals or groups because they do not like their views. Particularly do we need to be dispassionate and courageous in those cases which deal with so-called “subversive activities.” They are dangerous to civil liberty because the prosecutor has no definite standards to determine what constitutes a “subversive activity,” such as we have for murder or larceny. Activities which seem benevolent and helpful to wage earners, persons on relief, or those who are disadvantaged in the struggle for existence may be regarded as “subversive” by those whose property interests might be burdened or affected thereby. Those who are in office are apt to regard as “subversive” the activities of any of those who would bring about a change of administration. Some of our soundest constitutional doctrines were once punished as subversive. We must not forget that it was not so long ago that both the term “Republican” and the term “Democrat” were epithets with sinister meaning to denote persons of radical tendencies that were “subversive” of the order of things then dominant.

And then we have the ignorant fool-thug who addressed the prosecutors at the Department of Justice last week, and in what is becoming a normal, tyrannical screed, cursed his predecessors and those who obtained multiple criminal indictments against him- and in one case a criminal conviction. He threatened lawyers who opposed him in court, and the lawyers who prosecuted him, and promised to see them punished for doing their jobs in the manner that Attorney General Jackson said they should.  And as he did this his Attorney General lackey stood by and nodded, calling the United States of America's Justice Department the justice department of our deranged president. She and the current director of the FBI are Quislings in the finest example of that derogatory term. 

It was the best of times. 

It is now the worst of times. 

Speedy Pi

Friday is Pi day. For the less mathematically inclined readers (or those who wear black robes at work) Pi is 3.14159  et. sequ. and Friday  is 3.14, so nerd out. 

Here is what we love about Pi. 

Pi is an irrational number, which means it cannot be exactly expressed. The ratio that produces Pi goes on and on, generating digits and never repeating a pattern nor ending -  like the new speedy trial rule in Florida. 

 Yes folks, unless you have been under a rock picking our your brackets, the Florida Supreme Court amended the Speedy Trial rule which now states that upon expiration of speedy trial the defendant may redeem their speedy trial expiration for a half price six-inch Subway sub at all participating Tallahassee Subway retailers. 

When speedy trial expires, nothing more occurs. When you move to discharge you will be sanctioned for filing a frivolous motion.  You must read Barker v. Wingo and be prepared to meet a constitutional speedy trial threshold. 

So not only is Pi an irrational number because it never ends, but so is the right to a speedy trial in Florida. It is theoretical and never ends. 

If you get a speedy trial discharge henceforth you will automatically vault to the top of the against all odds award potential recipient, since it will be against all odds (including Pi) to get a speedy trial discharge. 

Pi is the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter.  

Speedy trial is the relationship between the time arrested and the time a trial begins. 

Both cannot be definitively fixed in time or space. They are, in a sense, Einsteinian in nature. Relative to the ratio of the two fixed items. 

You can fix a circle's circumference. You can fix its diameter. But you cannot definitively fix the ratio of the two. 

You can fix the date your client was arrested. You can fix the date of the trial. You cannot determine if a speedy trial violation occurred no matter the lapse of time and distance between point A (date of arrest) and point B (date of trial). Like spacetime, there is a curvature to the distance between A and B that cannot be seen but can be proved. 

Pi is a transcendental number, meaning it cannot be the solution of an algebraic equation involving finite sums, integers, products and powers. 

Speedy trial is a transcendental number/time period, meaning it cannot be a fixed time period, the expiration of which will set into motion a series of events resulting in the dismissal of the case. 

Pi is....Speed trial is.....we could go on and on and on and on.....3.14159265358979323846. 

Enjoy your weekend, which unlike Pi and speedy trial, is not never-ending. 

RON GURALNICK HAS PASSED AWAY

 He was the best dressed lawyer in the REGJB and probably Miami. Immaculate suit that cost more than our monthly income when we started out. Not a hair out of place. A Louis Vuitton briefcase. Alligator or snake skinned boots. Always tan. A million dollar smile and cold defense attorney eyes. 

And he handled big cases. He was one of THE lawyers the drug defendants in the 1970s and 1980s went to see when they were in trouble. He looked the part. He acted the part. He was the part. The quintessential Miami criminal defense attorney when there was no other better place in the country to be a criminal defense attorney. 

His wife -Carol Ann Guralnick was every bit a lawyer and personality as he was. She parked her Porsche in front of the REGJB every day, preferring to pay the ticket than park in the lot. She hired an interior decorator for her small state office. 

They were a power couple for sure. 

He was a friend and colleague and lived a hell of a life. 

Rest in peace. 

 

DIET TIPS

 Ozempic is ok. 

Mounjaro is better. 

Want to really kill your appetite? 

This is best

Lunch with a judge 

Dear FACDL-Miami Members,

Join us for an exclusive Lunch with the Judges on Friday, March 14, at 1:00 PM at REACTED FOR SAFETY  Miami. This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow members and engage in meaningful discussions with Judges D’Angelo, Denaro, Stuzin, and Williams.

Event Details:

  Date: Friday, March 14

  Time: 1:00 PM

  Location: REDACTED FOR SAFETY 

We feel confident that if you have paid your dues and ask FACDL they will tell you wear they are meeting. Hint: Not a great place for vegetarians. 

THE OLD DAYS WHEN SCIENCE MATTERED 

We came across this old article. Written at a time when the world believed scientists, and not the madness of how we treat science now. * 

"effects may be considerable in a few centuries" 

And they did this without computer modeling. But it was a time when scientists were listened to. 

* see e.g., the madness of the secretary of health. Your child may be exposed to measles? They could die? Try vitamin A instead of a vaccine used for 60 plus years  (but he won't tell you his own kids were vaccinated against measles). 

CHESTERON'S FENCE

 There are razors in logical thought. The most famous is Occam's Razor- familiar to most of you (who do not wear black robes at work). 

G.K. Chesteron created Chesteron's Fence which states 

"Do Not Remove A Fence Until You Know Why It Was Erected."

Query: Just why do you think that Razor is applicable today (Judges do not need to answer). 

Who remembers School House Rock ? 

Here is a new one. Enjoy. 

We will be posting more content today as time allows.