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These days, appellate litigation and legislative/regulatory affairs. Wondering where it all went wrong.

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Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them?

Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

17.02.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 15776 πŸ” 3952 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 69

goldman.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

30.01.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

19.01.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 15617 πŸ” 5676 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 59
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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

25.12.2025 07:24 πŸ‘ 2637 πŸ” 758 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 175
Todd Snider w/ Jerry Jeff Walker, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires - "Mr. Bojangles"
Todd Snider w/ Jerry Jeff Walker, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires - "Mr. Bojangles" YouTube video by schoenular

Todd Snider w/ Jerry Jeff Walker, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires - "Mr. Bojangles"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QdW...

16.11.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't that "pursuant to ... Circuit Rule 40-3" the way they normally describe their 11-judge en banc panels?

29.10.2025 02:53 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This morning, theΒ Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

04.10.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 23861 πŸ” 7354 πŸ’¬ 1429 πŸ“Œ 572

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 49585 πŸ” 15462 πŸ’¬ 663 πŸ“Œ 714
(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)

(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

30.09.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 2702 πŸ” 596 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 79

Yeah, definitely indelible, and I was (wrongly, it turns out) convinced it was a familiar face, which is what sent me down a rabbit hole. (I think I was getting a Severn Darden vibe, maybe?)

30.09.2025 01:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Blogger: User Profile: Charles MacPhee Blogger is a blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog.

I hunted this down a while back, here's what I found:

30.09.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This is demonstrably pathetic and a sign of true weakness.

The Feds lack the numbers to do what they want to do. They can hurt, yes, but not at the authoritarian scale that (de facto President) Miller desires.

So they go for the media-bait illusions of power.

Like this.

Profoundly weak flex.

28.09.2025 22:15 πŸ‘ 2450 πŸ” 583 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 23

Call up the architecture-tour-boat armada! (honestly those kickass docents would win easily)

28.09.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Beside the point, but man, there is just not a better looking city than Chicago anywhere in the US.

06.09.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 594 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
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Me opening the news every fucking morning

02.02.2025 22:16 πŸ‘ 9252 πŸ” 2585 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 28
Bluehawk by Thelonious Monk from 'Thelonious Alone In San Francisco'
Bluehawk by Thelonious Monk from 'Thelonious Alone In San Francisco' YouTube video by Thelonious Monk

What you need to know today about what America can do, when it's doing it right: how we hear things that previously did not exist to be heard. youtu.be/Lr85cOPdcNE?...

18.11.2024 16:46 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That was more than 25 years ago and I've long since left the field, but I'm very happy to hear it's apparently still going strong.

18.08.2024 15:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's great to hear! I co-taught the UT summer intensive the first couple years after Gareth died (and worked on converting an nth generation photocopy of his home-brew *Lexis* textbook to an electronic version). It really was so much fun to teach with that approach, and it felt very effective.

18.08.2024 15:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0