Remembering

Yesterday was Memorial Day in these United States.  Thanks to the passage of the Monday Holiday Bill passed in 1968 it always occurs on the last Monday in May, creating a "three day weekend" which quite a few people stretch to four by taking Friday with it.  On the other hand, prior to this school children often got four-day weekends--if a fixed date holiday fell on Tuesday or Thursday, educators thought it too complicated to have students attend a single day, so we all got off the corresponding Monday or Friday, a three-day week.  Having been moving from middle school to high school when this was effected, I have often believed that was the reason it was done.  To me, the thirty-first of May is always Memorial Day, one of the holidays I committed to memory as a child, along with Washington's Birthday.  Fortunately they didn't mess with the law establishing Thanksgiving, so that four-day weekend is still honored at the end of every November.  In New Jersey we have another November four-day weekend, because the New Jersey Education Association--the teachers' union--holds its annual convention on the first weekend of that month, calling all teachers to Atlantic City.

So lacking an appropriate holiday greeting for a day on which we remember those who gave their lives, in whole or in part, for our defense, I will just say to anyone in that category, thank you.

Now, let's see what I can remember about the second half of May.

It began with the promised mark Joseph "young" web log post #446:  The Religious Freedom Abortion Argument .  In brief, there are some who claim that any law which restricts the right to get an abortion is an impingement on religious freedom; this article considers the merits and flaws of that argument, from theological and constitutional perspectives.

We also continued the chaplain's Bible study with John 19:29 through 41, and two more Musings posts, Walls briefly comparing the walls of Jericho to the walls of the Philippian prison holding Paul and Silas, and Remembrance Law observing that a law requiring us to be thankful is a nearly useless requirement.

The Christian Gamers Guild also gave us RPG-ology #54:  Names , another recovered Game Ideas Unlimited article about how things get named.

In Verse Proportion continued with chapters 98 through 104, the stories of Bob Slade, Derek Brown, and Joe Kondor moving toward climactic moments.  Behind the scenes I have finished the reference character sheets for Con Verse Lea and made strides on the HTML versions for the support site, and I've also written several chapters of the novel to follow that, now under the title In Version.

Let me again mention that there is a Patreon web log which provides information on new articles more quickly, and sometimes includes musings on other subjects such as whether that Supreme Court opinion leak might have been a hoax.

That said, there will be another of these mid-June; hopefully I will see you then.