Events

We got almost up to 16°C today before a cold front pushed through around noon, so the temperature has already fallen to 11°C on its way down to 6°C by sunset.

On 5 March 2001, Federal judge Marilyn Patel (ND-CA) ordered music-sharing service Napster to remove the copyrighted materials listed in A&M Records' complaint against the service. This effectively killed Napster:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is out:

It must be lunchtime:

The Times had some (not at all) surprising news yesterday:

I saw a stat on social media that turned out to be true: at its worst, in early 1973, 29% of the US approved of the Vietnam War. But only 27% approve of what we're doing in Iran—or at least, they did on Sunday. Of course, an argument to popularity isn't a valid argument, so let's look at the evidence:

I've got a lot of plates spinning at the ends of sticks for the next couple of days, including figuring out who to vote for in the Illinois Primary Election two weeks from today. Since I won't be in Chicago on election day, I've got to do this by next Friday at the latest. The other spinning plates are a bit bigger.

Ah, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is "never get involved in a land war in Asia."