Re: Illegal Venezuela deportations. Judge Boasberg is moving steadily in the direction of contempt for the Officials who prevented his "turn the planes round" Order from being obeyed. https… (View Post)

Did we do the Carl Sagan quote from 1995? He tended to be a bit more subtle than Asimov, imo - but not *that* much. Here he's quite close. https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1907130858491793556 (View Post)

Cheers. The next step is to continue improving the exercise, and lose a bit of weight. The initial target is 5000-6000 steps per day, or an equivalent cycle trip. That's on track so far, so we&#… (View Post)

My view is still that - assuming the Constitutional Republic continues to exist - it will really need a bout of constutional reform as happened in the 1860s after the Civil War, and the 1950s-1960s (… (View Post)

Thanks (and to the likers). Apparently the Hairy Bone Marrow cells * are down to a whisker - under 1%, so it should be a few years before it comes out of remission significantly. * Not quite right - … (View Post)