Left BigLaw (again). I gotta tell you, I’m really missing those teams of round-the-clock hyper-competent paralegals. Here I am making my own binders like a chump. Also the ‘free’ endless premium legal pads. Listen, I like trees as much as the next guy, but go through these at an alarming rate.

If your law firm doesn’t have a style guide then it’s not a law firm but just a bunch of lawyers sharing a building.

WRT One Battle After Another: I believe it was Chekov who said that if you show Benicio Del Toro in karate pants in Act II, he has to have an epic karate fight in Act III, SMH.

If you’re cold, they’re cold. Let them in. (Photo credit to kid heading to swim practice.)

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I was born in 1518. In the village of Glenfinnan. On the shores of Loch Shiel. I am immortal. I have no food allergies.

My sister sent me this picture from the car wash in the town I’m from.

If you spent 4yrs giving cover to a dangerously incompetent, malevolent sociopath but then on J6 you did the only thing you were lawfully allowed to do, you should get one (1) pat on the back but then withdraw from public life in shame & ignominy & forever be remembered as an unprincipled sycophant.

“Once” is a Christmas movie. youtu.be/JMqKOt7R_K8?...

10yo: MY TEACHER SAYS TO USE MY INSIDE VOICE BUT THIS IS JUST MY NORMAL SPEAKING VOICE!!!

I’ve always really liked Christian Carion’s film, Joyeux Noël, about 1914 WWI ‘Christmas Truce.’ It’s great. Highly recommend if you need a break from the big-city-girl-returns-to-Snowtown-saves-the-ornament factory-&-falls-in-love-with-high-school-flame-&-organic-Christmas-tree-farmer genre.

One cancelled flight, two delays, and *two* ticketing errors. But in 22 hrs (not the 8 to 9 I’d planned), I went from London to Salt Lake City and it behooves us who live in an age of wonders to take a deep breadth, appreciate the miracle of flight, and try not to be dicks. I’m working on it.

Silmarillion *Metal* Cover Band called Discord of Melkor. 🤘

Listen. I’m sure Orlando is great, but the airport’s ugly as hell. Carpet looks like it has a staff infection. But I deplaned behind a mom & kid of the English moppet variety. Kid steps into the terminal, looks out the window at the Florida sunshine & says “So *this* is America! Amazing!”

Federalism for everything except California case citation rules. Congress must intervene. Necessary and proper for date to go last.

I’m not here as a tourist, but I don’t want to leave town without seeing the city’s main attractions.

It’s been ten years of this. He’s not testing anything. Just an entire party of fellow travelers and dishonorable, unprincipled cowards. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Not saying this island kingdom has a spotless historical record, but it did produce Shakespeare, Turner, and Hobnob’s. So that’s something.

That is such a great headline. “These guys suck and are dumb. Is sucking and being dumb actually awesome?”

I had understood that the president had “defeated ISIS” in 2018. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/w...

An entertainment, you say? An *infinite* entertainment?

Antifa, and of course, Nargles. They’ll steal your shoes.

Counterpoint: No.

I am also using AI to raise my kids. Me: Alexa, play Led Zepplin. Me to kid: This is Zepplin. Pretty dope, huh?

More distressing revelations out of the Atlantic:

In fairness to the dog, it is hard to go potty when someone is watching:

Just throwing it out there that I think I’d be an excellent fed chair.

Who has made this 🤣

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Everyday we draw closer to Subsidized Time and the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. (Conceptually, not chronologically. Don’t try to out DFW me, nerds. I read the whole book.)

You’re nobody in this town until you’ve acquired Warner Brothers at least once.

Apple says the band I used their app to listen to the most this year was Rage Against the Machine and I gotta say that next year is not shaping up to be any less Rage Against the Machine-y.

Mint the trillion dollar opinion coin.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I named my fists Infinite and Jest cuz I mostly use them for writing footnotes.

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

Modest counterpoint: 87% of executives *self report* that they use AI for work.

Watching the Argentine SciFi ‘Eternauts.’ It’s great. I learned my Spanish, such as it is, in Argentina, so ought to be able to keep up. Turns out in the snowpocalypse, (spoiler alert) everyone mumbles. Don’t want the snow bugs to hear them. A good stress test for comprehension. Which I’m failing.

Please alert the Typography Crimes Division in The Hague.

Finding RFK Jr. appealing in any respect makes you Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B material and that is all anyone needs to know. Enjoy your flight. Please place any future profiles or think pieces in the airlock. Thank you.

10yrs in & every M*GA defector continues to remind me of this line from Quiz Show: “I'm happy that you've made the statement. But I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. See, I don't think an adult of your intelligence should be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.”

Can’t believe people are pitching new SCOTUS shows while my spec script for William O. Douglas: Vampire Hunter is just sitting in a pile somewhere, SMH.

Cleaning house & listening to SCOTUS tariff argument. So far my biggest take away is that people should not elect a a malevolent & dangerously incompetent sociopath to be the nation’s chief executive. (Possible confirmation bias here cuz this is one of my priors.)

Sorry, Pluribus. But somebody in the hive would know that the accent is on the last syllable of Guaraní.

Impeach.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time *the United States* decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E...

Grandma: “What can I get [9yo] for his birthday. I know he likes those *critters.” *by “critters” she means Pokemon.

Happy Soundgarden Induction Day to all who celebrate. 🤘🤘🤘 variety.com/2025/music/n...

What you have to appreciate, is that a lot of people are just really dense.

Did People Talking to Me in the Elevator Ruin the Workplace?