Driver’s License Renewal

My driver’s license was going to expire later this year, so I made an appointment to go the DMV on Monday, and took a cab. When I arrived, their system was down, and there was no telling when it would be up, so I read the newspaper (I had brought it to read while waiting), and waited. I made a last check before leaving an hour or so later, and was told that the system was not possibly and intermittently functioning, but, as I understood it, only for people who had brought their birth certificates.

I had brought a copy of my birth certificate (I ordered two a few months ago, thinking they might be a good thing to have in order to vote, or to show to ICE), so I was able to see someone, demonstrate that I could read letters while wearing my glasses, have a new picture taken, and qualify. I didn’t actually walk out with a new license, but with a piece of paper that I can use when driving (if I had a car and actually did much driving) while waiting for the license to arrive in the mail. The system wasn’t working well enough to churn out real licenses.

The license, when I get it, should qualify as Real ID, too.

The Red Queen’s Race

I don’t have any amendments on my amended docket.

I began the week (and the biweek) with an oldest Regular New (non-RCE) application and an oldest Regular New Request for Continued Examination application. I finished an Office Action on the Request for Continued Examination case early in the week, and have been working on the non-RCE, genuinely new, application; I have made progress doing the searching and writing the Office Action, although I’m not finished yet.

The thing is, someone filed a Request for Continued Examination in another case that I had rejected, so now that’s on my Regular New docket. I’ll get to that one later.

Incident in Fairhope

Recently, Reason reported on Alabama police arresting a sixty-one year old woman for wearing a penis costume at a No Kings protest. Her “No Dick-Tator” costume may been vulgar, but wearing it was still protected by the First Amendment.

One point which struck me is that this occurred in Fairhope, which began as a Georgist settlement. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation owned at least a large part of the land, charged land rent, and used the money to pay the government-imposed property tax on land and buildings. Unfortunately, a lawsuit from some tenants put an end to this decades ago. Anyway, I know about Fairhope, although I have never been there, and I used to be friends with an aging couple of Georgist activists from the town, and with their teenage daughter (I think the youngest of multiple children), who has since gone on to become an active Georgist herself (hail to Alodia Arnold!).

I wonder whether this sixty-one year old woman happens to be a Georgist, or to have much familiarity with Fairhope’s history. One would expect a Georgist not to be fond of Dishonest Donald.