dimland radio 7-6-19 show notes

More Talk About My California Trip

Yep. There were a few things that I didn't get to last show. I know, I know. But at least there will be less photos this week. That's something. Right?

Corrections

There were a couple misspeaks on my part last week. Placerville is east, not west, of Sacramento. And Robyn is Douglas's, not Michael's, girlfriend's friend.

Some People Have All The Luck

Just a few weeks before I received my jury duty notice earlier this year, a co-worker received his notice. It would be his first time. I helped him apply for a postponement, which he was granted.

 

His new start date for his week of jury duty was July 1st.

 

Turns out. He didn't have to serve a single day and Ramsey County still considered his jury duty service complete. Lucky duck.

 

I explain on the show.

 

Our Fourth Of July Tradition

 

A spontaneous suggestion one Fourth of July a few years ago has led to this unusual tradition in our household: My wife paints my toenails. This year the color is pink.

 

Why, yes, that is a Farrah mug sitting next to the TV.

The photo is as close to naked as world will ever see me.

 

Trump's Verbal Gaff, Social Media's Glee, And A Facebook Friend's Unintentionally Ironic Posting

 

So Fearless Leader arranged a Fourth of July celebration at which America unzipped its pants in order to take its weapons out to show the world how tough it is. Too many it was a pointlessly expensive gesture. However, it did provide social media with plenty of joy at the fact our president misspoke during his speech. He stated that there airports during the American Revolution that need to be taken by our army.

 

Social media loved the mistake and made as much fun of it as it could. Some of it was pretty clever.

 

I have a Facebook who has been a very vocal proponent of the man-child in the Oval Office and a vociferous critic of Democrats and liberals on her social media platform. The day after the president made his gaff, during the firestorm of humorous responses to that gaff, she stepped right smack in the middle of the Irony Zone. She posted a link to an article critical of Americans for forgetting the history of their country.

 

Do you see the irony?

 

I did.

I couldn't resist. I had to comment.

Cool Thing #1: Minnesota Twins' Home Run Record

The Twins just broke the record of most home runs hit before the All Star Break. The old record, held by the Hated Yankees, was 161. The Twins have reset that at 165 with one more game to be played before the break.

 

In your face, Hated Yankees!

For One Afternoon During My California Trip, I Wore A Blue Shirt

Michael wearing Dodger blue and a Twins button.

In order to get my friend Michael to wear the 1987 World Series Champions Minnesota Twins button while we made our second visit to downtown Placerville I agreed to wear a LA Dodgers item. Michael had me wear a Dodgers shirt.

 

Dodger blue, a Lincoln Highway marker, and me.

I wore it without any worry of reprisals. Maybe I should have worried though. We were in San Francisco Giants territory. However, I received no grief from any Giants fans. In fact, I did receive a "Go, Blue!" cheer. Go figure.

 

Speaking Of The San Francisco Giants

As I said, while I was in California I was in Giants territory. And Michael told us we would be seeing ugly orange with black trim Subarus all over the place, while we were in Placerville.

 

But the only one I saw while there was the one Michael pointed out to us while we were heading back to his place after our Sunday afternoon trip into town. And I barely caught a glimpse of it.

 

Damn! That really is orange.

However! When I got back to Minnesota I saw two in the week or so since I'd been home. That's twice as many as I saw in California. One was parked behind Nostalgia Zone and I parked right next to it. The other was spotted parked on a side street near my home. There's a neat coincidence about the name of that side street and that most despised car.

 

You'll have to listen to hear the coincidence. I can't give everything away on the blog.

 

Cool Thing #2: How To Tell A $100 Bill Is Genuine

The current American $100 bill has several ways to check that it is authentic. Holograms, security strips, watermarks, etc have been employed by the US Treasury to protect against counterfeiting. But there was one other security measure of which I had no idea.

 

Click here to see the security measures, including the one that was new to me. Pretty cool.

 

Some Silliness In Placerville

While enjoying the Placerville Brewfest, I spotted a couple moments of bullshit. One was a booth taking space away from another brewery or food vendor in order to give it to a cold reader. The picture will clue you in on how I felt about a "fortune teller" being included in the brewfest.

 

"Not for me."

A more permanent display of bullshit is a store peddling nonsense. The store is called Vibes Up and its website is a smorgasbord of pseudoscientific gobbledygook. Just check out the screen captures. (I hope they are readable.)

 

Ugh!

 

 

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Electric Lash' by The Church & 'Escape From The Planet Earth' by The Alleycats

Second ad break bumpers: 'Debaser' by Pixies & 'Tears' by The Chameleons UK

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 2-20-16 show notes

Amy's Jury Duty And Hayden's Step Into More Independence

So, Amy had jury duty for the first time this past week. She got on a jury and deliberated on a civil case making the determination of the amount of damages to award a fellow injured in a car accident. I won't go into all the details, but the fellow was asking for half a million in addition to the medical costs of $23,000.

 

I think the best way to say whose side the jury was more sympathetic to will be to tell you what they decided to award the plaintiff. He was asking for $523,000, they awarded him $43,000. The plaintiff really didn't establish he deserved much more. Amy didn't want to give him anything, but agreed with the other jurors that $20,000 in addition to the $23,000 in medical costs was fair. Even the defendant's lawyer suggested they thought an additional $25,000 would have been fair. The jury came in under that, so you know for whom they felt more sympathy.

 

Our dilemma was that we have a 12 year-old son. Amy meets him at the bus stop each day and walks him home. Perhaps we are over-protective. We decided to give Hayden the chance to get himself from the bus to and in the house on his own. He would also call me at work to let me know he made it.

 

He did fine. But I was pretty anxious up until I got his call.

Shame On You Celebrators Of Scalia's Death

Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, leaving a vacancy on the US Supreme Court. Many have stated how shocked and saddened they are by his death. However, his death was also greeted by more than a few of my Facebook friends' expressions of joy. Shame on them!

 

This is all part of that tribalism that disgusts me so. Scalia was conservative. His opinions were conservative. So, of course, some of my FB friends who tend to be very liberal couldn't stand him. They painted him as one of the worst people ever. And they were relieved when he died.

 

A law professor, Paul Campos, has written a piece for Salon.com voicing his displeasure at people lauding Scalia as a brilliant jurist. Campos disagrees and sites a few examples of what he thinks show Scalia not being so brilliant and having phony principles.

Well, Campos is a law professor and I'm just some ignorant cartoonist with an internet radio show to which no one listens, so what do I know about Scalia and his juristic brilliance?

 

However, the person who wrote the following must certainly know better than I and, maybe, even a law professor writing for Salon.com. She wrote, 

 

"...'We are different, we are one,' different in our interpretation of written texts, one in our reverence for the Constitution and the institution we serve. From our years together at the DC Circuit, we were best buddies. We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation. Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots - the 'applesauce' and the 'argle bargle' - and gave me just what I needed to strengthen the majority opinion. He was a jurist of captivating brilliance [emphasis mine] and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh. The press referred to his 'energetic fervor,' 'astringent intellect,' 'peppery prose,' 'acumen,' and 'affability,' all apt descriptions. He was eminently quotable, his pungent opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader's grasp."

 

I'm sure Prof. Campos disagrees with this statement. Well, he's the law professor who writes for Salon.com and the person who wrote this was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She's just a US Supreme Court justice who has known and served with Justice Scalia for decades. So,what does she know?

 

Read the statements of the Justices of the US Supreme Court on the death of their colleague here.

 

Jared Allen Rides Off Into The Portrait Format

ARRRGGGGGHH!!!

 

Landscape! Landscape!

 

If you are going to announce your retirement from the NFL by making a video of you riding off into the sunset (or just riding off) as it's done in the Westerns, make god damn certain the person taking the video holds the camera the right way!

 

Westerns are filmed in landscape! Not portrait!

Dawkins Is Re-invited To NECSS And Has A Stroke

No, he didn't have a stroke because of the re-invitation. The stroke did happen after Richard Dawkins received an apology and a re-invitation to appear at NECSS. This has been quite a roller coaster. NECSS seems to have been having difficulty figuring out how to deal with divisive people such as Dawkins. Although, why is he divisive? Is he really divisive?

NECSS, I'm sure, had been getting an earful ever since they first announced Dawkins was a guest speaker.

 

Anyway, he's been re-invited and those who were pissed off by his invitation, but happy with his dis-invitation, are probably pissed off again. Oh, well. I guess they won't be attending NECSS.

 

And neither will Richard Dawkins. He had that stroke.

 

Did I Dream This?

Was it all just a dream? Did I see that Charlie Sheen had returned to the Dr. Oz show to follow up on the whole quack HIV/AIDS cure that snake oil salesman, Samir Chachoua was selling? Did I see Dr. Oz and Sheen's doctor calling out Chachoua for his claims? Did I see Dr. Oz showing and responding to clips from Bill Maher's HBO show Real Time, on which Maher lapped up all of Chachoua's bullshit? Did I see that?

 

Maybe I did. If so, kudos to Dr. Oz. Damn! Did I just say that?

 

Movie Recommendation: Sleuth (1972)

 

2oth Century Fox

I may have recommended this one before, but I blogged about it this week on Warehouse Find, the official blog of Nostalgia Zone, so I'm recommending it again.

 

It's terrifically entertaining. The acting is a treat and the twists and turns are great fun. Watch this movie!

 

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Creatures Of Love' by Talking Heads & 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' by George Jones

Second ad break bumpers: 'Lonely Is As Lonely Does' by The dBs &  'Achin' To Be' by The Replacements

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

That's it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com
 
You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.