If global warming and evolution can be denied as simply matters of faith, why not heliocentrism? It's the next logical step in the regression of knowledge. hxxp://ping.fm/saj2m

It's Ride your Bicycle to Work Week, and I rode mine today. 8.39 miles.

At lunch 2 happy men were posing for Civil Union pix in front of County Bldg. Good for them. Don't feel like my marriage is threatened.

Mitt Romney says we're "inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy". According to this chart from the Heritage Foundation, then, the economically-less-free countries that must have already ceased to be free-market economies include Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the UK, Finland, Macau, Japan, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Taiwan, Belgium, South Korea and Israel. hxxp://ping.fm/nLwcU

Illinois Courts go electronic

The Illinois Supreme and Appellate Courts will no longer publish their opinions in bound volumes, ending a 180-year-old practice. Instead, they will be published electronically on the Court website. Not to criticize progress, but I can walk over to the law library and those cases from 1831 are right there on the shelf, waiting to be read. (And those old cases are still good law - I once cited a case that Lincoln had argued). Will the lawyers of 2191 have as easy access to http://www.state.il.us/court as we have to the dusty old law books?

http://www.state.il.us/court/Media/PressRel/2011/053111.pdf

Apropos today's opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, a classic John McPhee essay. hxxp://ping.fm/grO12

You think your dog does some good tricks? How about jumping out of a helicopter? hxxp://ping.fm/McKG0

County clerk suddenly finds enough uncounted votes to swing the election to her former boss and avoid a state-funded recount? Wisconsin = Cook County North. hxxp://ping.fm/3JtVV

Used the touch screen voting machine: 7 clicks to vote for the 1 race on the ballot that would have been 1 pen stroke on the paper ballot

Trying a CBA webcast for some continuing ed hours, hoping Fri aft will be a quiet time @ the office to get through it.

Denny's Baconalia Is A Festival Of Bacon, Includes Ice Cream Sundae - The Consumerist hxxp://ping.fm/leT53

Made a commitment today - signed up for a pass for the office's bldg bicycle parking room.

Hackers 1, NY Times 0

NY Times spends $50 million to build a paywall, hackers beat it already with 4 lines of javascript. http://bit.ly/hnztQ4

RIP Pinetop Perkins

Switched to playing piano after an angry woman swung a blade at him and cut the tendons in his arm and he couldn't play guitar no more. Played blues with Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, B.B. King. Ate cheeseburgers and smoked till the day he died at age 97.

Chicago Sun-Times obit

Chicago Tribune obit

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