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Milwaukee Meetup 2023: The Beer, the Boat, and the Hurricane
The 2023 edition of our recurring Milwaukee meetup rolled up with a skeleton of a schedule. Team Rhody began the festivities on Thursday at Lakefront Brewery. They discovered that Cookies and Cream Cheese Curds are a real thing, and surprisingly good.
One thing everyone was planning on was Germanfest on Friday. The Rhody faction arrived early, and kicked off the party. I arrived later, as night was falling alongside the barometer. The looming storm clouds deterred many, but Ricochetti are of sterner stuff. I up with @katiekoppleman, her friend Philip, @hankrhody , @mattbalzer , and the @therightnurse We chatted and sampled the German food and drink (especially drink) as a light rain began to fall, and distant lightning shut down the stages. Suddenly, the wind and rain massively picked up, with torrents of water blowing sideways like a shower or Milwaukee hurricane. We ended waiting until the storm died down, and again ended up leaving the fest when kicked out. Everything got soaking wet.
2023 Stillwater, MN, Meetup: Dining on the Dock of the Bridge
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An Afternoon with Friends and Justice Thomas
Gary Robbins, Bob Thompson, and I held a Ricochet mini-meetup on Saturday in Scottsdale, AZ. We met at the Il Capo Restaurant for a nice Italian lunch — Gary’s treat, so thanks again, my friend. In our lunch discussion, we reached complete political agreement on all issues. Gary is now a confirmed, ardent Trump enthusiast who loves walls and Big Beautiful Coal and hates Adam Schiff. No, wait, not yet. (He will be, once the Gary pod growing in my garage is matured.)
After lunch, Gary and I watched the new documentary about Justice Thomas, called Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words. I enjoyed the movie, which was a touching and interesting presentation of the life of this outstanding Justice and American hero. There was little focus on his jurisprudence, and much focus on his extraordinary life story, from extreme rural poverty on the Georgia coast during the Jim Crow era, to his study in a Catholic seminary, his days as a student radical in the ’60s, and his eventual development into a Reagan Republican.
There was significant coverage of the outrageous Senate hearing, for political junkies.