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[According to the calendar file I'm relying on, today is the 217th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights.]

"[...] the war on drugs which has downgraded the fourth amendment to a mere advisory [...]" -- kbiel, 2008-02-25

"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish." -- US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (b. 1908-07-02, d. 1993-01-24)

"[T]he effect of the religious freedom Amendment to our Constitution was to take every form of propagation of religion out of the realm of things which could directly or indirectly be made public business, and thereby be supported in whole or in part at taxpayers' expense. That is a difference which the Constitution sets up between religion and almost every other subject matter of legislation, a difference which goes to the very root of religious freedom[...] This freedom was first in the Bill of Rights because it was first in the forefathers' minds; it was set forth in absolute terms, and its strength is its rigidity. It was intended not only to keep the states' hands out of religion, but to keep religion's hands off the state, and, above all, to keep bitter religious controversy out of public life by denying to every denomination any advantage from getting control of public policy or the public purse." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, dissent in Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing TP., 330 U.S. 1 (1947)

( sayanything blog reader kbiel, on the fourth amendment; Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, on constitutional amendments; Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson, on the first amendment )

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This morning I spent quite a bit of time drifting back and forth between asleep and awake when I wanted solid sleep, after being initially woken by impending-hairball sounds from nearby. And I spent a lot of time drifting in and out of dreaming, full dreams and dreamlets. Among those were:

• I dreamt that I got stuck in a narrow shaft and died from positional asphyxia;
• I dreamt that I successfuly defused a bomb from a distance by posting Javascript code on the Web.
• I dreamt that silmaril's mother found a video of silmaril as an infant, singing, already musical and already having a sweet voice, and she posted it, and I commented on it;
• I dreamt that I failed to defuse the bomb using Javascript (dream repeated with variations) and somebody died when it exploded;
• I dreamt that I finally got the code I was working on before I fell asleep to work, in a fugly but effective fashion that somehow resulted in my stray thoughts being inserted in a Gothic font;
• I dreamt that an ex-lover was tying me to the bed;
• I dreamt that I was getting a massage;
• and I dreamt that I had already posted this entry a few hours ago.

An ... uh, interesting ... combination of topics, but I think I would have preferred a more restful sleep-straight-through kind of sleep. (Not that I get that very often these days.)

Oddly, the shortest and least complete dreamlet, the baby video, is the one that has stayed most vivid in my memory after waking up the rest of the way.

( An odd combination of dreams for one morning's near-waking, including bombs, and a friend singing as a baby )

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