This Could Only Have Two Outcomes

 I went for a jog, friday, which also happens to be trash day.

Less than 100 feet into my run, I spotted a letter in the middle of the street.  I stopped, peered at it and saw that it was addressed to my neighbor.  I shoved it into their mailbox and continued on with my run.

Later, as I was running, it occured to me that maybe the mailman didn't drop the letter in the street.  Maybe it was a piece of junk mail, it had gotten thrown in the trash and then ended up in the street when the garbage was picked up.

Which is more likely:

My neighbor will be confused about how a letter he threw away, ended back in his mailbox.

OR

My neighbor will not remember/notice.

Morning Turkey Drama

I spotted 5 Turkeys this morning while getting dressed.

They were going through a gap in the rock wall that Meenah used to take.

They walked along the back fence until they came to the side fence. One of them fluttered to the top of a firewood pile by the fence and then jump-flew to the neighbor's yard. Another of them tried to replicate the feat, but panicked when it landed on some metal pieces which held down the tarp on top of the wood stack, and jumped back into my yard. A bit later, another flew up on the other side of the stack and was fixing to leap to the yard next door, when one of its mates flew up. They both panicked and flew back into my yard. 

Later, three of the four found their way around the fence, where it ends in the side yard. The last one became agitated and backtracked all the way to the fence in the back before it just flew directly over the fence. It then ran hastily to catch its buddies, who were probably in another drama negotiating the fence on the other side of the neighbor's yard.

Prediction

 He will do something completely expected:

Opening act:

Predicted final act:

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 18th loss

Arguments which pass for 'thoughtful' by the left

A partial Fisking.

Protesting an Anti-Trans Trump Judge Isn’t Disrespectful, It’s American

It's too target rich an article, so I'll just choose a few.

Then they did their old song and dance about free speech (for conservatives, not the protesters) and civility (toward conservatives, not the marginalized people

Nothing says "marginalized like being a law student at one of the most prestigious schools in the country.

conservatives hate). As is usual, they collapsed the difference between the right to appear at Stanford and the right to force 

No student was forced to attend the talk.

Stanford students to sit there like docile automatons while Duncan held forth. Everybody has the right to speak; nobody has the right to be heard over the din of the crowd. 

The student handbook specifically prohibits disruption of speakers.

"It is a violation of University policy for a member of the faculty, staff, or student body to:

 

1. Prevent or disrupt the effective carrying out of a University function or approved activity, such as lectures, meetings, interviews, ceremonies, the conduct of University business in a University office, and public events."

But the conservative echosphere pretends not to understand this distinction.

Perhaps, (and hopefully) it's Mystal who is doing the pretending here.

The entire escapade sure seems like a set-up. Duncan went into a hostile environment spoiling for a fight, got one, videotaped it, and then ran to his media spokes-buddies to cast himself as a victim. 

You know how you could avoid such "set-ups" in the future?  It's astonishingly simple:  Treat people with civility.  If you act like a crazed mob, don't come crying to The Nation.  Sure, they'll support you, but fair-minded people know that those Stanfordians stepped on a rake and you can be sure that they'll get the same result next time they act like a mob.

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