Tuesday

Miscellaneous Rambling

I find out later today whether Tess' flowers survived the freeze. We have hundreds of flowers in the field. I brought in a handful last night so they wouldn't go to waste, but I fear this morning's freeze might destroy the many I couldn't bring inside. I'll inspect them when I get home from work tonight.

Wow: Judge Dismisses Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Against Trump, Orders Her to Pay His Legal Fees. It's rare that a party is ordered to pay another party's legal fees. Unless there's a statute that requires it, a judge, in order to award fees, pretty much has to conclude that the lawsuit was fraudulent: filed in bad faith, no basis in fact, etc. The rules could be different in California in this regard, but I doubt it. The principle that "each side pays his own fees" is known as the "American rule" (the English rule says, "Losing party pays the other side's fees).

Modern Studies Corroborate Christian Tradition, Episode 1,982,009: Just 7 Days of Small Acts of Kindness Will Make You Happier, Oxford Research Proves.

For the record, I, too, am 1/32nd American Indian . . . or maybe it's 1/64th. Either way, I definitely have American Indian blood. My g-g-g-g-? grandfather on my mother's side in the 19th century was an Indian. No joke. It helped not a jot when I applied to Harvard.

WATCH: Hilarious video of Elizabeth Warren describing about how hard it was for her "oppressed" parents to get married because her Mom was a "Cherokee Indian."
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