Test patterns

Older people will remember that TV stations were not on 24 hours a day. They would usually sign off with the National Anthem accompanied by a video of scenery like mountains and oceans around 1 or 2 a.m. Test patterns would also be shown at sign-off. The Indian-head pattern is well known.

In support of tipping

It took a long time until I understood that servers got a very low salary and made most of their money from tips.

I have tipped delivery drivers well, especially during the pandemic. They were taking a real risk dealing with people before there were vaccines,

Term limits on the Supreme Court will take too long to have an impact

what I wrote in comments on the Washington Post site.

Your editorial supporting term limits states “The reform would take a long time to work.” Are we supposed to put up with 30 more years of the extremist court until the Trump justices are gone?  (I assume it would not apply to current justice.) This right-wing court will continue to do damage so this would not solve the problem any time soon.  I expect them to endorse the independent state legislature theory in the next term.   Term limits are a good idea but something else must be done sooner.

One thing that should be done is a law requiring the Senate to have hearings and a vote on any presidential nominee for the Supreme Court. A repeat McConnell’s shameful behavior on Garland is unacceptable.

Free Bird cartoons

From Songfacts:

Shouting out “Free Bird!” as a request at concerts became a rock and roll joke, and every now and then a musician will actually play it. The 2007 Mitch Myers book The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling explores this subject in a work of fiction about the first person ever to shout “Free Bird” at a concert.

Here are two cartoons on it.

This is wild – someone recorded “Free Bird” with a bagpipe!

Update on the bad Supreme Court decision on the praying coach

Abortion polls update 9/16/22

The extremist Supreme Court decision is unpopular.