The southern dewberries have been flowering

The first day of spring, March 20, coincidentally brought my first sighting of southern dewberry flowers, Rubus trivialis. In the northeast quadrant of Mopac and US 183 I lay on the ground to photograph a few of them.

 

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Judges and lawyers in countries like Russia, China, and North Korea don’t act independently. Instead, they do the bidding of the authoritarian régime in power. Unfortunately that seems to be the way the United States is heading. Aaron Sibarium’s March 21st article “The Takeover of America’s Legal System” offers a scary look at the rise of illiberalism in our legal system and the growing threats to due process.

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