I dont think youll find a person reading this blog who doesnt agree with you. Book Banners would probably burn Fahrenheit 451

Oooo, you might have Dame Juliana beat!

Hmm, wild rabbits are a fluffle. Wonder why rabbits get so many names?

I think its probably some artists version of her. I cant imagine anyone putting all that fishing info into English not being celebrated in some manner!

thank you! It was fun digging around trying to find out more about her.

Here's what Google led me to, which just has a slight difference in letters, I think: http://thenextbookonmylist.blogspot.com/2014/10/banned-books-little-women-by-louisa-may.html Thank you! One must wonder if it's men banning books about women. It's hard to imagine how Little Women could do anything other than enlighten and entertain.

Typepad needs a laugh icon!

do you have a link to the article? I'm always fascinated in Alcott

Hmm, so I had to look up rabbits because I love that too, but even though rabbits get bunches of descriptors, fluffle, disappointingly, isn't one of them: Rabbits (General) Colony, Warren, Bury, Trace, Trip Rabbits (Domestic) Herd Rabbits (Hares) Down, Husk Rabbits (Jackrabbit) Husk

exactly. I wish there was a lot more about her!

She was a fascinating woman, wasn't she? And thank heavens for moms and Anya Seton! A lot of these nouns are kind of onomatopoeic aren't they?

LOL, love it!

well, there is that! I just looked and oddly, squirrels get two collective nouns--dray and scurry!

Oh my, that would have been a painful one to listen to. Im glad youre out of it but really sorry that any jury has to listen to such horror. I had to reschedule until today. They still havent selected the full jury but Im already prejudiced against the senile defense lawyer. ;)

then it sounds as if it should have been deadlocked, good going!

several of us have noticed that the men don't seem to be called as often, but the assembly room seemed to have equal numbers. Don't know how that works out!

Was it a small town? That really would be difficult. I had to look up voir dire because you aroused my curiosity. It's more of our mangled English than anything, Latin to French to Anglo-Norman and probably written into all the British law texts our laws were founded on. I'm betting law doesn't rely solely on Latin but those old Brit usages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voir_dire

oh cool, someone who actually had a chance to serve! That's a great story. And a sad one. We're all humans on this planet. I wish we could open all borders, but we're also still animals, I guess, and need our territories.

LOL, typepad needs a big laughing face icon. That would have been a good wild life post on our earlier blog. ;) It's interesting how many people have never actually been chosen for a jury!

Ah, it's good to know that there is still some leeway once inside a courtroom! But you're right, it would be interesting to actually see a case through. I'm sorry your disability made that difficult to do. And at 91, you need to just enjoy life and not fret about judicial decisions! The young need the experience more than you.

oh, now that's interesting, thank you! We have different levels of judiciary here. If the basic jury I would be on rules and one of the parties disagrees, they bump the case up another level. The higher courts have only judges. I think we're a more litigious society and we don't have enough judges to handle it your way! So the basic jury settles the basic cases.

Love that! I think it would be interesting to decide someone's fate, but car accidents... that's just tedious.

Yep, that's how it works--wait until you're going somewhere!

then it wasn't all bad! We have a very comfortable jury assembly room, but I decided to reschedule when they said trials could last for weeks. I have a trip coming up next week I didn't want to miss! And they said that even if the case was settled before we got called up, our presence is valued. They recognize the tedium at least.