Thinking about chessboards in the shower…leads to creatively coming up with a new way to calculate squares without multiplication using recursion. You know, should you ever have a computer that can’t multiply. Which leads to forgetting to shave, and having to do it in the sink instead. One of those mornings.

“Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”

Constitutional Myth #4: The Constitution Doesn’t Separate Church and State – Garrett Epps – National – The Atlantic.

 

The latest in an interesting and academic look at the Constitution and some of the current myths being expressed about the Constitution to serve the ends of the individual expressing them.

This one on the separation of church and state ties into the first one in the series, on constitutional originalism, the notion that it is not the role of the judicial branch to extend the interpretation of the constitution, but solely to take it at its word. Where interpretation is to be done, it should be done through the words of the original drafters, found in the constitution, or if necessary, their other writings.

And in winning news stories we have the following.  I found it last week, but forgot to share until now. For that, I apologize.

Man with dead weasel-like creature accused of Hoquiam assault | Seattle Times Newspaper.

Man with dead weasel-like creature accused of Hoquiam assault

Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man.

The Associated Press

HOQUIAM, Wash. —
Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man.
The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker said, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a martin,” then punched him in the nose and fled.
The attacker was apparently looking for his girlfriend and had gone to her former boyfriend’s apartment Monday night where the victim was a guest.
KXRO reports he left carcass behind.
Police later found the suspect arguing with his girlfriend at another location and arrested the 33-year-old Hoquiam man after a fight.
He said he had found the martin dead near Hoquiam, but police don’t know why he carried it with him.
A martin is a member of the weasel family.
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Information from: KXRO-AM, http://www.kxro.com

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