As of the time of the composition of this open thread, the US has not declared war, nor committed troops to a mobilization, but by the time it gets published in the morning, who the hell knows what we might do?

While you are reading and commenting this morning, I will be in court, representing the last criminal case I will ever take in an adjacent county. The District Attorney there has not gotten the hang of managing all her assistant attorneys and other support staff. It is a nightmare. What takes an hour in other counties take 4 hours there. My client admits to driving while intoxicated, just wants a reasonable fine and probation. He is in his 60s and has never been arrested before.(And never will be again.)

Meanwhile, the new client I took in today has witnesses he drank 1 beer, 4 hours later, wrecked his truck when he fell asleep behind the steering heel. Well, I asked him about his working conditions, discovered he works in 130 deg. heat during this heat dome over Texas. Hell, the man passed out from heat stress, not a beer! Anyway, he has at least 3 co-workers and his employer who will testify he had one beer to wash down his lunch tacos.

Strangely, no tests, not road side breath test, no jail breath test, no blood draw, not even the walk in a straight line test.