Mic was the most sought-after horn player in the Bay Area, a musician so good that there was nowhere left to go.  He could play anything he thought of, as soon as he thought of it, and he could think of stuff other people can't.  You could put a chart in front of him that had more black than white on the page, and he could look at it and play it, in time, with perfect tone, first time he tried.  He was on thousands of recording in his lifetime.

He was also my dear friend.  We worked together for about eight years with the Sons of Champlin.  I was the roadie, handled his horns, set up his music and his lights, loaned him my baseball cap for a stage gimmick he was fond of.  He carried his smaller horns, but he also played a tuba, and took a solo on it now and then.  That was my responsibility, like a violinist saying hey, take the Stradivarius over to the hotel, would you?

In my other business, I took care of moving his piano when he changed locations.  He gave my crew some beautiful leather furniture, which ended up in a bachelor pad, and was always called "Mic's couch."

They're calling it "Planet Nine" for now. The planet, if it exists, has a mass 10 times that of Earth and takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to orbit the sun.

It's crazy to me that people talk about space travel outside our solar system when we really don't even know whats out there or even where the boundary to the solar system is.

There are around 200 dwarf planets, but only five have been named,  Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Ceres.  Ceres is actually located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the rest are out past Neptune.

While the exact mass is unknown, for an object to be a dwarf planet it must be round:

The qualifying feature of a dwarf planet is that it "has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape"

1. Palin blames son's domestic violence arrest on PTSD and Obama. It seems nothing the Palins do is ever their fault. Interestingly, no one's aware of an official PTSD diagnosis for son Track.

2. Ted Nugent--who promised he'd be dead or in jail if Obama won re-election--wants to have Obama and Clinton executed, because...he believes the new Michael Bay movie "13 Hours" is the gospel truth. As an aside, Nugent's just not a very good guitar player.

Personally, I don't think this is such a good idea.

For some of us, his legacy is not a great one.
We did not leave Iraq or Afghanistan, and now we are embroiled in a civil war in Syria.

And then there is the matter of the widening gulf between those of us who have a lot, and those of us who don't.

MSNBC is avoiding mentioning it at all.  Chuck Todd only mentioned it to say of course, Sanders was right.  Those organizations are "obviously" part if the establishment.

There was a post at DKOS that had a surprisingly wide sweep of opinions in the comments.  It expected al lot more Sanders supporter venom.  But I found plenty if that at a post on the subject at C&L.  I did not see a single comment that was not viciously attacking the post for even suggesting the comments were out of line.  Which it did in quite a balanced and unaggressive way.