prior probability

My wife Sydjia and I visited the Motown Museum on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit this past weekend. In honor of our visit, here is one of my all-time favorite Motown hits: the original 1967 version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell.

We also attended Jeezy’s concert at the Fox Theatre on Friday night (12 Sept. 2025). Below the fold is Jeezy’s “Tiny Desk” concert recorded on 21 Feb. 2024:

My wife Sydjia and I will be visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) later today. Among other things, we want to see the iconic “Detroit Industry Murals” by Mexican painter Diego Rivera.

Or to be more precise, what did Osama bin Laden’s evil 9/11 attack and George Bush’s knee-jerk “war on terror” response to this attack accomplish? I am tempted to say absolutely nothing, except lost lives, two pointless wars, and billions of wasted hours in security lines, so I asked Google Gemini this very question. Below the fold is the AI’s automated response to my query:

Charlie Kirk was a prominent pro-MAGA activist, author, and media personality who co-founded Turning Point USA, a conservative campus organization. Live updates regarding this brazen political assassination are available here via BBC News as I do not trust the mainstrain media in the U.S.

Update: This op-ed/eulogy by Ezra Klein is worth reading.

Update #2 (12 Sept.): Now that we know who the suspect is, my next questions are: did he act alone, and how could his own father turn him in?

Legally speaking, who should have the property right to the baseball in the film clip below: (A) the lady who was standing right in front of the ball and was just about to grab it, or (B) the man who ran across an entire row of seats and grabbed the ball the first? Most people have been siding with the dad, but when I first saw the video I thought the woman was right to be upset because the ball was heading right toward her. I therefore think it’s totally unfair to call her the “Philly Karen,” let alone try to get her fired from her job. P.S.: I have blogged about the case of Pierson v. Post before (see here).

That is the title of a splendid little stage play by the Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz. The play is set in a family-owned cigar factory in Ybor City, Tampa, in the early 20th century. As the hot and humid immigrant workers toil away hand rolling cigars, a “lector” entertains them by reading Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, causing the characters’ lives and relationships to spin out of control. Shout out to my wife Sydjia for taking me to see Anna in the Tropics on Sunday afternoon.

I discovered this catchy K-pop song (via Shazam) at my university campus Starbucks on Friday morning:

That is the title of this provocative op-ed by Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule. Below is an excerpt:

The issue of defying court orders is still with us — but it has taken a twist. Now the defiance is coming from inside the judicial branch itself, in the form of a lower-court mutiny against the Supreme Court. District Court judges, and in some cases even appellate courts, have either defied orders of the court outright or engaged in malicious compliance and evasion of those orders, in transparent bad faith.

Wait, what?! Judges are playing politics? To quote Captain Renault, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” If the courts have the power to review the illegal or extra-constitutional acts of Congress and the president, who reviews the judges? File under: rule of law for thee but not for me!