here's the thing

The radio waves are full today of people saying effusively complimentary things about Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009). And I'm certainly not here to suggest that she wasn't a worthy example of how astonishing privilege can be used for good. And she did have her own troubles to deal with, of course, being a girl at a time when being a boy would have been even more advantageous than it is now. They played a clip at one point where she said something about how she was lucky to have been told no, because it motivated her, and I get that, really. But then they had the political analyst saying she was a force to be reckoned with (almost certainly true), and blah blah (something else that was no doubt true), and she made her own way --

-- and they lost me. Because I'ma tell you what, I think it's been a long time since there's been a Kennedy whose way wasn't well made in advance.

my semantics professors' pride is my shame

I answered a question in a meeting today by pointing out that, when it comes to truth tables, AND entails OR.

As it happened, I had also correctly predicted just moments before that this answer would make at least one person at the table want to hurt me. :-P

omgwtfjurysummons?

Dudes. I don't know how it's possible, but I have never in my life been called for jury duty. (Well. I guess I've only been eligible since I was eighteen. But given that for six of the [non-consecutive] years since then I've lived some hundreds or even thousands of miles from where I was registered to vote, you'd think it would have come up before now, just because of how inconvenient it would have been.) I live in the DC area and I'm not a lawyer; I'm shocked that I've never been summoned.

Broke my streak. :-)

[eta: Aha - actually, this is not a summons for jury service. Says right here that it's a questionnaire to determine eligibility. But no other jurisdiction I've ever lived in has even gone that far.]