You could put a price tag of eleventy billion dollars on something and say it isn’t unavailable. When you’re effectively handing over your business for it, it practically is.

It’s not the chicken (as in, the piece of a dead bird) that’s the issue. You can get that anywhere. When I go to a restaurant or make something for myself, I’m looking to explore different flavors, cooking techniques, and ways of using that food. If I go to a mom and pop Italian restaurant, I want their recipes. If they just reheated something from the Olive Garden I could get it fresh from there. And I wouldn’t have any way of knowing prior to ordering that that’s what I was getting.

Now, they’re not just serving a piece of chicken. They are transforming it into chicken and waffles. Maybe they came up with a waffle and stuff that perfectly complements the seasonings Popeyes uses. It gets murky, but I would think that a freshly fried piece of chicken is the centerpiece of the dish and I’d be pretty upset to get a reheated unoriginal piece like that.

Searches and warrants are nothing new, except in the context of phones and other electronic devices. Are you suggesting that should be immune to something that has been around for centuries?

Except My Cousin Vinnie

For what it’s worth, I picked up Radio Australia on shortwave from Denver on a recently-restored tube radio (albeit a higher-end one). It was surprisingly clear too!

I’m not an avid reader, but I’m a huge fan of a book called Over the Edge of the World by Lawrence Bergreen. That detailed Magellan’s voyage around the world. A few takeaways:

• Spices really were the thing everyone in Europe wanted. If a sailor managed to smuggle a backpack full of cloves, it would be enough to buy a modest house. Only one of 5 ships made it back, but it was filled with top quality cloves and that was enough that the trip was STILL a financial gain.

• Nobody really knew where the spices came from. India was a nebulous semi-mythical place, and some believed there were a few "India"s

• Magellan, while Portuguese by birth, basically moved to Spain when Portugal wouldn’t pay for him to try to find the spice Islands

• The treaty of Tordesillas roughly divided the new world between Spain and Portugal. The land east of whatever meridian was Portugal’s, and west was Spain’s. But there were still issues, like longitude not really being measurable at the time and no clear idea who had claim 180° past that meridian. But it would have been to Spain’s benefit to find the spice islands past that meridian

Bonus fact: the first human to sail around the world was Magellan’s slave, Enrique (last name escapes me). He was brought from Indonesia(?) to Europe, then set sail on this round-the world journey, eventually going near his native homeland. Magellan had it in his will that Enrique be freed upon his death, but when he was killed on that voyage (basically by his own who) nobody was aware of that.

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) won the general in a write-in campaign after an unexpected primary loss. But I guess I’m not sure if they have an open primary in Alaska, nor if that would really be the critical qualifier.