With no offense intended to all my NYC friends, of course. Some tosser with the NYPD has asked the City Council to give the police the power to authorize people in New York City to possess envi­ron­mental testing devices, and provide for criminal pros­e­cution of persons possessing such equipment without permission. Air quality meters, chemical sniffers, Geiger counters. It appears that the NYPD would even be licensing smoke detectors, radon test kits, and carbon monoxide monitors. And anyone merely possessing these things without permission could go to jail. The justi­fi­cation for this invidious tidbit of legis­lation is the fear that unreg­u­lated [ . . . ]

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I went to visit Tailor today. Excitement! I decided to get a suit made. And some shirts. I had fun. I spent a *lot* of money. I sat there thumbing through hundreds of different cloths for suits and shirts. I chose a light­weight medium gray with a delicious texture for the suit, and four solid colors for the shirts. I’m not ready to graduate to stripy-​​​​ness yet. Tailor is going to make the suit just how I want it. For one thing, it won’t have a breast pocket. Stupid, silly, pointless thing. So I got rid of it. Hooray! And I’ll finally get trousers that make me look as if I actually [ . . . ]

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William Gluckin & Co. v. Int’l. Playtex Corp., 407 F.2d 177 (2d Cir. 1969), is an opinion upholding the issuance of a prelim­inary injunction against Playtex, manu­fac­turer of, ahem, ladies’ support garments, prohibiting Playtex from pros­e­cuting a lawsuit it had filed against Woolworth & Co. for selling brassieres manu­fac­tured by Gluckin at Woolworth’s stores in Georgia. See, what happened was this: Playtex had a patent, and Gluckin (allegedly) infringed the patent and sold the infringing unmen­tion­ables to Woolworths, who sold lots of them in Georgia. Woolworth’s, Playtex, and Gluckin were all New York corpo­ra­tions amenable to suit in New York, but Gluckin was not [ . . . ]

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This one isn’t a faux pas. Atlas Shrugged was featured as the question to the $200 answer in this evening’s “Literary Titles” category (Jeopardy Round). It was the first answer of the game. I don’t think the Jeopardy! people like having clips from the show up on the YouTube, so I can’t post a video. The clue was cute. Alex gave a spoken clue (“1957 novel about a strong female executive”) while a video clip ran. The clip depicted a member of the “Clue Crew” with a giant inflatable globe on his shoulders, which he set down and “shrugged” in an exag­gerated fashion. The other clues in the category [ . . . ]

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