Dr. X's Free Associations

Jukebox Heroes

Here's an interactive map of data from 60,000 e-jukeboxes showing geographic preferences in jukebox play. Taylor Swift is the winner in our neighborhood.

Can you see any justification for this?

A Virginia cop tased a man in the first five seconds of this clip. It appears that the tasee was instructed to turn around and place his hands on the hood of the police car. As the man turned his back to the officer, the cop raised his taser and tased him in the back.

Phone Snap: At The Movies

We saw Sicario in Evanston last night. It was just *meh.* I heard a discussion on NPR that led me to believe it had some psychological depth, but it was really just an action film, and, IMO, a mediocre film for that genre.

Before the movie, we tried a restaurant in North Evanston. On the way there, we could not help but notice swarms of NU students on the sidewalks and loud parties spilling from houses onto front lawns. Ubiquitous Solo cups suggested alcohol was involved, and that observation was further supported by the sight of first responders attending to a girl on a sidewalk near one the parties. She was on her feet, but looked wobbly as paramedics removed a gurney from the ambulance.

When we were closer to the restaurant, we realized that NU had a night game, which explained the the commotion on the north side of the city.

Sun Setting On Wrigley Field

Phone shot through a Red Line window.

Yogi Berra

A wonderful photo series accompanies the NY Times obituary for Yogi Berra.

 

Fiorina and Rubio Take A Bite Out Of Trump and Carson

 

It's far too early to predict summer 2016, and this is a reminder of that fact.

There is no sound prediction model that can forecast so far ahead.

Sales Scam: Merchant Choice Merchant Services

Dave called 8:02 pm Sunday night and left a message. He said it's important that I speak with him regarding the new EMV smart chip update for my merchant terminal.

I'm not a customer of this company. I don't accept credit card payment and don't have a terminal. Sounds like this scam.

 

Saturday Snap

Flu Shot Or Not?

In an email from my physician:

Please get a flu shot for me.

Mike Huckabee: Sarcasm Fail

Of Kim Davis, Huckabee declared:

I thought everybody here (in the debate) passed 9th grade civics... The courts cannot legislate."

In the Obergfell decision, the Supreme Court did not legislate. The court's ruling found state prohibitions of same-sex marriage unconstitutional. The court not only has the power to uphold or strike down state laws on constitutional bases, doing so is the job of the Supreme Court.

Evidently, Huckabee was absent on the day his civics teacher covered Marbury versus Madison

Huckabee also claimed last week that the Dred Scott decision is still the law of the land, and it's just being ignored.

Huckabee was also absent from 9th grade civics on the days his teacher covered the 13th and 14th Amendments to the US constitution.