I skipped yesterday because my thoughts were on a topic that I figured nobody would be interested in. But last night I was thinking about it all and reminded myself that while this is a public site, its intent is to be more of a journal for my thoughts and other random writing.
So word of warning, there’s going to be a lot about Libertarian Party inside baseball for the next couple weeks. Montana has it’s officer convention coming up and I’ve been selected as an at-large member for a county, so I will need to attend. There are lots of moving parts right now and frankly, the board was dangerously close to missing the notice requirements and likely only reevaluated what proper notice was after I told the one who called me that my first order of business would be to challenge the validity of the convention since she had argued to me that posting the event on their website constituted proper notice. Not but an hour or so later, an email went out fulfilling the notice requirement, beating the deadline by a couple of days.
Now you could say I was being pedantic, but there’s a reason parliamentary procedure exists, and that is to help organizations keep order. Our bylaws and Robert’s Rules of Order are what sets the rules, and members as well as the board must follow them.
There’s a lot more going on than just those few paragraphs, but I’ll get to that later. I need to work on another proposed amendment to bring our state into compliance with the national party bylaws, and eliminate the possibility of our disaffiliation.
Interesting Tidbits
Song of the day: The Writing on the Wall by Iron Maiden
How Banksy could be unmasked because of his latest High Court artwork – “The identity of Banksy, who has remained anonymous for 25 years, may be publicly revealed as police continue their investigation into criminal damage.”
Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by “Advanced Extraterrestrials” – “the chances that life emerged by pure chance on Earth are so slim that it’s possible that our planet was instead seeded by ‘advanced extraterrestrials.'” I mean, even if you believe in the biblical creation story, by definition, God is an alien…
Jeffrey Epstein memorial plaque appears at Trump’s Aberdeen golf course – “The plaque reads ‘In loving memory of Jeffrey Epstein – a terrific guy. See you very, very soon. From Donald’.”
Washington’s warning about America’s doom is finally coming true – “Washington’s confidence in the general health of the union was tempered by his worries about dangers that lay ahead — worries that seem startlingly contemporary and relevant 229 years later.”
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!
Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug – “People suspected teenagers playing ding dong ditch and called police, who found animal crawling on the door panel”
Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show – “Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found.”
Thanks to AI, this guy is running a Google rival from his laundry room – “Large language models aren’t just making mainstream search engines worse; they’re making the next generation of search engines easier to develop.”
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