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Last year, my friend Brian organized a game weekend at a small inn on Lake Huron to replace crossing the border to attend Fall In.  International relations being what they are, it was repeated again this past weekend and 16 of us gathered for a weekend of games, food, comradarie, and cheer.The gang, 8 of us […]

Yawdryl Puwl of the 7th Crusader Mounted Rhyfles (7CMR) watched the Alithean belch exhaust and rattle up the dirt road to the cottage at the crossroads. He steadied his cadier, snorting angrily about the mechanical beast, and trotted across the field, his squad of Mounted Rhyflers following him. The cottage ahead of them looked snug, […]

A warm and dry September after a very wet startAfter a warm start, in fact it was over 30°C on the first day of the month, most of the rest of September stayed just a bit above average.  There was a cooler week in the middle and the month ended with some more temperatures in […]

A very wet month with very average temperatureThe temperature was incredibly consistent with only a handful of days here and there that were more than a few degrees off of the average.  Not surprisingly this resulted in the overall temperature being exactly average for August.The month got off to a very wet start with 47.6 […]

Some terminology:  by “general jurisprudence,” I mean the core philosophical questions about the nature of law, the relationship between law and morality, and the nature of legal reasoning; by “normative [or “specific”] jurisprudence,” I mean the myriad philosophical attempts to make normative sense (or provide normative rationalizations) of different substantive areas of law, like torts, […]

…in January 2027. Big loss for A&M, where he has been an effective and successful Dean. Will A&M’s momentum continue with his successor? We’ll see…

…where an authoritarian ruler was unseated (and conceded defeat) and an aspiring authoritarian (and son of a convicted insurrectionist) was defeated by the incumbent man of the left. I’m sure it’s a great relief to civilized people in both countries. UPDATE: Longtime reader S. Wallerstein, an American in Chile, writes: Some are saying that the […]

I found his scant entry in the ledger almost immediately–it was in my hands, as if I had manifested it, with no knowledge of what came before. The single page dedicated to his reign was now a mess, with marginalia… Continue reading →

When I posted about the new term back in September, I closed by saying that I anticipated “some coming changes that I will also want to write about, when the time is right.” I think it’s time now, because now… Continue reading →

(I feel nothing of that person now. But from the pictures, I can say that I was not unhappy then. I was relatively comfortable and, I thought, a success at what I had set out to do, which was to… Continue reading →