Extension

Didn't sleep well last nigh, not sure why...ok, stress about the various things in my life, angst about the bday, the usual things... and it affected the workout today, which was leg day; I had to cut short some sets and I felt my right calf tightening the whole time during cardio.  Ugh.  I am hoping -- I am off the rest of the week -- I can nap/rest one of these days to catch up and let the body heal, or at least rebuild itself a bit... I can certainly sense myself flagging due to a lack of rest.

https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2018/06/cleveland_indians_add_veteran.html

Good to see the Tribe front office listening to me... :)  Tim Lincecum is also available, sadly... for him. Not saying we should sign him, but it would be cool to see The Freak live and in the flesh once.  I also note that three of the four top draft picks of the Tribe were of pitchers, including one who Francona wants to see up this year, which, frankly, seems a bit... soon?

I am not surprised the Supremes punted on the cake case... again, this is me, but I see this as a market issue; if people can run a business catering to -- or not-- some segments of the population over the other, more power to them... I guess, of course, as I have said before, for liberals, it is the Chick-Fil-A issue, where the presence of even one dissenting voice is simply too great a temptation and must be crushed (I am thinking of the Battle of Germantown, where the Continental Army lost a chance to win the battle by concentrating its efforts on the surrounded British garrison of the Chow/Chew? house...and no I am NOT Wikipedia-ing this; old but not stupid am I!) no matter the consequences.  I think the danger for the GOP is that the new case might not be winnable (and this one was narrow) and then what happens....

https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2018/5/31/17406590/local-national-political-institutions-polarization-federalism

This amused me, mainly because -- again -- it is the Left who engaged in this nationalization of political battles/suppressing of legislatures to win on issues and now finds that the strategery is being used against them; to be sure, every out-of-power party believes in federalism, but only among the GOP are there people (and not nearly enough) who actually do believe in it and try to implement it...

Up to 660 on the Film List... watched "Theolonious Monk: Straight No Chaser" (660) and... for someone who knows little and has less interest in jazz, it was... fascinating.  Sort of made me want to check out more of his music...which I guess -- the propagation of knowledge -- is why I started on this in the first place.