Agreed. The madness here lies with the Judge who has already used it, rather than the guidance, which sounds fairly sensible.
I look forward to bringing my computer to court.
I refer back to JFK's speech at Rice University Field, speaking on technology and the risks that lie in our ignorance about it, and the benefits that lie in our all (that Lord Chief Justice who clearly suffered at least momentary stupidity included) truly understanding how it all works.
It's late on Nov 22, 2023, but I managed to get this next installment of my newsletter out the door, & also posted on Facebook.
Subject matter: My personal reflections on the 60th anniversary of JFK's assassination, the timeless words of William Shakespeare, and thoughts on Thanksgiving.
22 November 1963: assassination of John F. Kennedy.
This five-cent stamp featuring the eternal flame from his grave in Arlington National Cemetery and words from his inaugural address was the first US commemorative dedicated to him (a 13-cent stamp followed in 1967)
President John F. #Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas OTD 1963.
He gave his last public speech here on
October 26, 1963 at the groundbreaking of the Robert Frost #Library at Amherst College. For good reason, it is considered one of his greatest.
Ann & Joseph Blumenthal (typographer and publisher of Frost's poetry) produced 600 copies of this keepsake as their holiday greeting for 1964-1965. The woodcut is by Fritz Kredel
#JFK had been unable to attend a memorial service for Frost in February
#JFK was assassinated OTD 1963. His last public speech, delivered a month earlier at the groundbreaking for Robert #Frost#Library, Amherst College, is considered one of his greatest.
Best known for its soaring praise of the artist in society and the call to measure a nation's greatness by its culture rather than power alone, it in fact began with a plea for educated elites to recognize their privilege and "to put back into our society."
On the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, revisit this 1973 BBC interview with JFK's mother, Rose, who talks about the family's pride and sorrow.
Remembering John F. Kennedy's assassination and how the announcement of his death was received in my junior high school in small-town south Arkansas…. The remembrance is in two parts, part 2 following part 1.
Here's Heather Cox Richardson on the racist fury of some white Southerners at JFK's and RFK's support for civil rights for African-Americans, a rage that forms the backdrop to JFK's assassination. As she notes, on the day of the assassination, the Dallas paper published an ugly editorial attacking JFK for supporting "Communist inspired racial riots."
JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history.
AP reports on "the last surviving witnesses who are sharing their stories as the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination."
After reading this article—perhaps even more so because I lost both of my parents this year—I thought of how it might be really cool on a day like today to ask people you know who would remember this to talk about it . . .
#JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to #history, including AP reporter