Finished reading: Just War and Ordered Liberty by Paul D. Miller 📚
Mom fell asleep before the little one, so I come in and she’s crawled up next to her, mom’s phone in hand, watching Frozen like it’s no big deal.
‘Hamas said they wouldn’t shoot, then murdered my daughter’ - BBC News
“They’re screaming ‘we don’t shoot’, and then they shot. Tsachi yelled ‘who’s been hit, who’s been hit?’ And it was Maayan. She fell next to him, and then Hamas were able to open the door. There were screams, and they turned on the light.”
“We hope that … we can bring the unidentified down to less than 200. But some people, we will never find. We will never identify them. And people need to be prepared for this.”
Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims
‘Indefatigable’ Chicago Woman Whose Skydive at 104 Drew Admiration Dies, NYT
Rest in peace, Dorothy. And thanks for the mini-lesson on living well.
Last night someone didn’t want to turn 6.
Today, he seems pretty content to have turned 6.
Finished reading: Two Treatises of Government by John Locke 📚
Nice updated edition, with contemporary spelling. But the binding quality is subpar. It’s already coming apart in the middle of the book.
Finished reading: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli 📚 (couple of weeks ago, teaching a new translation for me.)
Making slow (but steady) progress on my own manuscript revisions: Currently reading: Finding Faith in Foreign Policy by Gregorio Bettiza 📚
Finished reading: The Beginning of Politics by Moshe Halbertal 📚
My university IT department did not freeze computers from upgrading to Sonoma. It’s a Christmas miracle.
Might be my new favorite legal citation.
Ohio State v. Notre Dame is one of the most bananas games I’ve seen in regular season in a long time. We’re in USC-ND 2005 territory.
🛬 DCA->PHX (great conference, ready for home.)
Unexpected plane change in Dallas. I’m pretty sure I’m obliged by the law of nations to get some brisket for breakfast.
zero dark thirty. 🛫🤙🏽
Got the kids some new T-shirts for game day. (Sister still insists on her dress.)
We’re getting there. (It’ll still be a 100 degrees in the afternoon, but the morning feels great.)
We live in an age of abundance.
