Don’t just be a henchman. Be a henchmensch.

Rian Johnson moved from noir to Blanc, and slips in a “PINO” joke in the new one.

The Kat Abughazaleh holy water thing looks a bit staged, doesn't it? The acting seems wooden, nobody seems surprised by anything the other is saying, and Kat kinda seems to feed the bag-giver talking points. Also: identical comments on her bsky and Reddit posts I dunno, maybe I'm overly suspicious.

Pour one out for all of the students who have papers due today, when Cloudflare crapped ChatGPT's bed.

Congratulations, fragile white men. You've forced scholarship committees to now pretend to be colorblind just like every U.S. institution has pretended to be colorblind for the last 75 years. I'm sure the diversity scholarships will start flowing to all of the Masons and Mackenzie's any minute now.

The word “trampoline” sounds like the fuel that a promiscuous woman runs on. Like, “Are you exhausted after making out with just two men at the bar? Try new Tramp-oline, our special high-octane formulation of vodka and Red Bull, and party all night long!”

We don’t deserve this World Series.

If Johnny Depp had a nickel for every movie he was in about a man with blades for fingers, he would have two nickels…which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I just saw a trailer for House of Dynamite and it bummed me out because movies about mutually-assured nuclear destruction haven’t been particularly relevant to the zeitgeist since my childhood. But here we are, again.

While Trump is bulldozing the White House, Pritzker is building a veteran’s home. Maybe the Texas National Guard just came here for better veteran’s services?

Nothing but respect for my Governor.

Nobody ever asks what happened to Grampa Smith and why his wife’s apples are so delicious.

Nicholas Meyer wrote two DIFFERENT movies about people traveling through time to modern-day San Francisco — one from the future and one from the past. In both movies, the woman they meet in SF decides to travel through time with the hero.

Welp. Go Dodgers, I guess.

I really hope that the future doesn’t refer to 2025 as the Civil Cold War, like some kind of pre-Ft. Sumter tension point.

Look, I’ve heard the “first they came for…” poem a lot lately. And I promise I will speak up soon. But I might wait until after they are done coming for the prosecutors.

Security is great and all, but the site I'm most happy about having two-factor authentication is Westlaw. God forbid anyone ever find out the dumb shit I have to research and double-check sometimes. They'd yank my bar card.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

just got an email from my local Democratic Party office, reminding me that their “September Party Meeting” will be held on October 8, and it struck me as being very on-brand.

You know, I hate Kristie Noem, but when they wouldn’t let her use the bathroom, she missed the opportunity to go to the Kinzie Street Bridge and do the funniest thing.

Go see One Battle After Another. See it in wide format, like IMAX, if possible. Best movie of the year (and I thought Sinners was a lock)

So, the decision to keep ICE fully funded and operational during the shutdown shows that the philosophy must be "get out of our country before you try to take advantage of the hypothetical services that we aren't offering to anybody."

It's always hilarious when judges and justices in my State urge lawyers to stand up to bullying. It's the ultimate game of "stop hitting yourself."

GWAR Dire Res metallicata

Losing Robert Redford and Claudia Cardinale in the same week has just reduced the average sexiness of humanity by a measurable downtick.

Anyone who doesn’t like Nosferatu fails to appreciate that it’s a movie in which a lawyer gets to kill his managing partner AND his most annoying client.

I’m just saying: are we SURE that it was really Charlie Kirk and not a boat full of suspected Venezuelan drug smugglers?

We’re going to see the weeks of screaming about a “political assassination” of someone who isn’t an office-holder — which didn’t happen when actual office-holders were assassinated in Minnesota.

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

If the United States Supreme Court can accrete to itself all power of constitutional review by fiat in Marbury v. Madison, it can abdicate that power by failing to actually exercise any rational constitutional review. You could make a good case that Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo demonstrates this.

Kavanaugh was apparently drunk they taught what BEGGING THE FUCKING QUESTION means in law school.

Nothing screams small-dick energy like “Department of War.”

After today’s White House video, I propose a new replacement for Hail To The Chief: youtu.be/B4yUNJZ7e4o?...

Rudy Giuliani stuns crowd by drinking a glass of water while “Trump” announces the award.

Hypothetically, your vision of Donald Trump suggests there may be no elections without complimenting him. Cuban’s view of Trump is far less deserving of compliment than the hateful version of Trump we already know.

Remember: cops are gonna cop.

Every bar prosecution and disciplinary commission in the country should have this paragraph set to a macro. It’s the most common sentiment expressed to disbarment authorities. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/08/21/i...

Dear criminals, protestors, and anyone who cares about privacy: this only applies to a phone that is powered off, or has just been turned on an not logged in yet. Once you put your password/Facetime in for the first time after you power the phone on, any local police department can crack it.

So, today I won a case in a way that will let someone out of prison 24 years early. But an hour after that, I lost a case in which my client is serving 9 years. Based in part on the order that those opinions were released in, I'm way more mad about losing than I am happy about winning!

You know, I’m starting to doubt that the writers of this anime are experts in pharmacology.

Look, I get it. I still have strong opinions about the Black Crowes / Blues Traveller Warped Tour beef.

Dear trial attorneys: When you re-use forms and templates, please, you know, read them over at least once before filing them . . . 1/2

“To gild refined gold To paint the lilly To throw perfume on the violet. Is just fucking silly.” —William Shakespeare via Tim Minchin

You know, the movies Secretary and Secretariat both involve whipping.

"Happy Gilmore was about challenging the establishment in the 90s. 30 years later, in a time when the country reels from the loss of the establishment, Happy Gilmore 2 stands for the rebuilding of a firmament and a rejection of 'break it all' disruption. In this essay, I will... 1/35"

I bet he got it from a tick in a box. www.eonline.com/videos/24422...

April the 15th #MildHorror

How many Emil Boves will get appointed to the Federal bench before my law school classmates stop looking down their nose at my State court practice? XD

This one hits me way harder than Ozzy’s death did. You can’t complain of reaching 97, but I enjoyed knowng he was still around. Tom Lehrer shaped my entire brain. Too many great songs to name. He was brilliant. Spend the day listening to his catalogue. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...