Facebook: The SAVE Act would REQUIRE birth certificates to match voter ID so married women wouldn't be able to vote, period, PAY ATTENTION LADIES Me: The SAVE Act does many bad things but it doesn't quite go that far, here's an explainer from a good source FB: WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING THE SAVE ACT?!!

Can we come up with a synonym for "feckless" that does not trigger my synesthesia please and thank you? (It's probably too much to ask that people gain some feck.)

Steak people: Does this steak look good to you? I am not a steak person (I eat meat but find steak to be just too much uninterrupted beef) but this looks weird and dry. Also birthday candles are taller than that so there's gotta be wax in the meat (if this isn't AI/photoshop).

Why has this been an earworm for the last two days when I had not thought of it or had any reason to interact with it in 40 years? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIIU...

Where do those things fall on the steak and tallow pyramid? Also though this is one of these "it's expensive to be poor" things. I can do a healthy and tasty dinner for 4 for $12 in new money but that's because I have already spent hundreds of dollars on spices, oils, flours, and other staples.

The Wisconsin legislature is debating a proposed constitutional amendment tomorrow that would prohibit houses of worship from being shut down during emergencies You know, because novel viruses know they're in a church and won't get anyone sick there

Growing up: Des Plaines Undergrad: Rock Now: Milwaukee, Menomonee, Kinnickinnic

Okay I made a Connections connectionsgame.org/game/?E9JVOY

So giving little kids trophies for doing park district soccer created a generation of weaklings unprepared for the competitive real world and unable to accept disappointment, but giving a 79-year-old someone else's Nobel is just how the world works nowadays, do I have that correct?

I contain multitudes

Pretty much anything with flaked/dried coconut

It’s time for another round of “what time is 8:30 am in Wisconsin?” as I wait at 8:53 am for another opinion due to drop at 8:30 am

I get that Bloomberg is business focused but this is not how I would frame a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of Donald Trump's tariffs

It is January It is Wisconsin It is pouring out There is a Lime scooter on the sidewalk in front of my house that looks like a 1980s movie robot

That I will not and did not outgrow being an awkward nerd, but that's okay. Awkward nerds still get to have a fulfilling life.

I would like to know exactly how many lawyers I have represented because I get asked that for expert gigs and I have no good way of actually counting. Our billing system does not make that easy (and would not include the 4 years before I got here). Mid-hundreds is my guess, and more informally.

Welcome, my new cousin, I'm sorry you had to be born into all of this

So, who here has experienced cruelty by someone speaking politely, maybe wearing a suit? ✋

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I'm post-partum anemia!

I'm not sure of the best, but I'm fixated tonight on being called "my dear" by both the outgoing Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and a Badger Bus driver within the span of 90 minutes

NYE waffle topping flight (plus some corn dog bites).

mine was did it happen day

Since at least 2019, I've posted (on FB) about the "firsts" I experienced over the last year. What's something that you experienced (big, little, good, bad, silly) for the first time in 2025? Here's one: I attended my first stadium concert (chaperoning 15 at Kendrick Lamar/SZA in Minneapolis).

Trade show, 2004. I had just separated from my spouse and was apparently wearing an invisible "HI I AM NEWLY SINGLE" beacon. Guy behind a booth starts talking to me about, I don't know, mops (it was the cleaning industry) and suddenly stopped and stared and said: "You have the most beautiful eyes."

How come all of the people who know 25 people who died suddenly after getting the vaccine know absolutely nobody who died of COVID or got long COVID? This is a rhetorical question brought to you by the absolute nuttery polluting Facebook right now

Ruin two bands by combining them? The Pixiestyx

There is so much cancer grid on social media right now (apricot seeds, ivermectin, “do your research but buy my supplement”) and today I saw someone tell a desperate woman to go to bed at 9 because “healing happens only before midnight.” That’s not necessarily grifty (sleep is free) but…huh?

"What about Hanukkah?" is getting posted in response to Kwanzaa greetings by politicians and candidates...that's an op, right?

Holiday milestone: when your teenager invites you to play Cards Against Humanity

Merry Christmas everyone!

One of my creepy digital ads (IYKYK and if you're in the Milwaukee area, YK) showed up in the news feed of a very sweet older lawyer and he said he was going to take my smiling face as a sign in our current hellscape that a guardian angel is watching and things will be OK.

My teenager asked if someone botched the redaction on purpose

Me: explains how contingency fees work 15: “so that’s basically gambling, right?”

Headline: "Will there be snow this Christmas? It depends where you live." Thank you, Journal Sentinel online. Very helpful.

Today I am, once again, going to try to make my grandfather's bakery butter cookies. I am a good baker. I have the recipe. I have a food scale and a well-calibrated oven. I have never been able to get them to turn out correctly. (They turn out fine as cookies, but wrong.) Let's see...

My work cookie exchange is Monday and I don't know what to make. I warned everyone that there is no guarantee my cookies won't be aggressively Hanukkah or otherwise not Christmas cookies. What should I make?

I guess I missed the un-stealth plane in the story of the Maccabees

I said I would get my CLE outline to the bar association "no later than Monday," I didn't say when on Monday It's in

I over-proofed my menorah challah but oh well

"Hey Siri, play Hanukkah music" Siri: Plays "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard

look at me getting the wax off the menorah before I intend to use it

Once again, "Master of Puppets" is how long you knead my grandfather's challah dough

so everyone is just gonna spiral at me at 5 pm on a Friday, that’s what we’re doing today

You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan But hidden under spackle is a maimed right hand

Going over 15's civics assignment on cabinet departments There are the correct answers constitutionally and there are the current answers and they are not the same answers

"Don't Look Up" because that was dreck

What is this “grown and flown” and why is it suddenly half of my Facebook feed?

My law firm holiday party was in a suburb called Greendale last night, and the street named "Parking Street" just broke my city brain.

I finished my self-evaluation for the seven hours I teach in a year a week early, which means only one thing...I do not want to do my actual work