Your Monday morning para-military policing. Well, the “para” is questionable. “. . . The Salinas Police Department recently issued a news release proudly announcing the arrival of the armored truck built to survive minefield explosions, which it got compliments of federal taxpayers as part of a program to convert military equipment to law-enforcement use.” ~ Cop Block

Your morning heavy metal pianoforte.

N.B.: if you happen to eating at the (excellent) Sheesh on 5 Mile and you plan on getting the Vegetarian Combo for 2, you should be aware that this actually comes with enough food for about 5-6 people.

This is somewhat significant.

A bookstore that I normally like just sent me an advertisement e-mail with the Subject: line “Is There a Malcolm Gladwell Fan on Your List?” Well, I don’t know that for sure. But if there is, I am certainly not going to indulge them.

In retrospect, really brilliant things seem obvious. “But of course!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJsepnsqqyM

is in Detroit.

A thing I saw just now tangentially reminds me of this, which has been one of the best things on the Internet since the last millennium. “The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.” — Jorge Luis Borges, FICCIONES http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_hexagon.html

So I started eating this chili pepper raw last night and the bottom of the pepper was like maybe a mild plus to a medium, but it got surprisingly biting somewhere around the middle. Now it is following like a power law of hotness as I get up to the stem. I keep eating because now this is like my Everest.

Two men enter, Kevin Carson leaves. #KevinCarsonFacts