No True Scotsman.

No. Not even close. It’s more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.

Russians used to go to the sea through Latvia, during the Czarist times. They often got sea sick. A case of any kind of gastric distress became a “trip to Riga.” (I learned this in a Russian language class. It may not be true, but I intend to believe it, regardless if it’s actual truth. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I’d like to know if I’m being unreasonable. It’s a sign of strength of character )

Who authorized maintenance for the big, fancy SC building? Can the Congress just decide to cut off funding? Can they eliminate pay for the justice, or for the staff? Can’t the Congress add more justices? My current thought is that a 65 member SC is the perfect size. That’s 5 justices for each circuit, not that circuits are terribly important as an organizing principle for the DC any more.

I exclusively use openscad. I can treat a project like software, with git and make.

Apparently the British say “Just enough blue to patch a Dutchman’s trousers.” Tom Lewis wrote a song with that title.