Thomas Endicott on nonsense in jurisprudence: “the first lesson of jurisprudence is not to dismiss obviously wrong or nonsensical claims …. Instead, it is worth asking what new emphasis or neglected insight a theorist is embellishing with absurdity. Nonsense in legal theory deserves lenience….” 1/

Kind of rude to schedule the rapture for týsdagur (Tuesday). Poor Týr has to get eaten by Garmr at Ragnarök. Guy’s got enough on his hands end-of-the-world-wise. *hand. My bad.

Was listening to Rage Against the Machine today when I picked my kid up from her orchestra thingy and she gets in the car and says, “Hm. B-minor. An underrated key.”

Well yes, Brooks Brothers, this style does not look like it requires a lot of effort.

I don’t need your woke sustainable methods to to extract potassium from K-feldspar! (Also, I’m not a doctor. I’m just a lawyer who is really good at Mario Kart. Also, I don’t think I’ve ever read an engineering article from Academia. Other than that, spot on recommendation.)

Sunset out the window of kid’s water polo practice is maybe overdoing it. I mean, water polo is great, but calm down.

Give a deer a rose bush and they’ll eat for a day. Teach your deer kids to sneak into my yard and eat my rose bushes and they’ll, uh, keep doing that. (It’s fine. I like the deer more than the flowers.)

Assistant deans, by contrast, are fine.

Spoiler alert: It’s beans.

Listen, it’s not the London School of Naming Buildings.

Me (out for a run in London): “Hilarious they have to paint all these ‘Look Right’ signs for very, very stupid tourists.” Me (10 mins & 2 near death experiences later): “On the other hand, many brilliant, creative people have trouble following instructions. Did Galileo follow instructions?!”

Is there a UK equivalent of the Legal Bluebook? Don’t want to know how BB deals with UK citations. Need a source for UK legal citations for UK courts / parties.

This is just to say that Let Down is my favorite Radiohead song, so I’m glad the youths have discovered it. Let me know if you need any more 30-year-old song recs, youths. pitchfork.com/news/radiohe...

As I walk through the airports today, I see these kids that are just overburdened with midi-chlorian challenges….

This guy would prefer not to be trod upon.

If you throw a sandwich at a cop, the cop gets to throw a sandwich at you. That’s just sandwich law. (I think this maybe should not be a felony tho. I’m just one of these anti-incarceration-for-sandwich-based-offenses radicals you’ve been hearing about.)

Important life lesson: If you’re gonna trespass, be cute.

To quote Viceroy Nute Gunray: Now there are two of them.

Baby bunny trapped in window sill. Mounting rescue. No more bunnies shall die today.

Dead rabbit on the porch this morning. Either a coyote was scared off while enjoying a snack, or there’s about to be a gang war in the Five Points.

“Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate.” Okay. But how fast is that? Cuz I found geometry to be kind of a slog.

Somebody find a head of lettuce.

Reminder that early in your career, it’s important to score some prestigious publications. Like Robert Frost, who, while working as a poultry farmer, placed his 1st short story in The Eastern Poultryman in 1903 & went on to place 11 stories in The Eastern Poultryman & Farm Poultry from 1903 to 1905.

Neighbor’s dog is off leash again. I’m calling the HOA.

Fashion is cyclical.

“I’ve always meant to go And look myself, but you know how it is: It doesn’t seem so much to climb a mountain you’ve worked around the foot of all your life.” The Mountain R. Frost, North of Boston

Uh, if you say so.

Concerned pika decides there are advantages to living under a rock.

When the universe just wants to make sure you saw that moose.

And Home Burial and Out, Out. Folksie farm poet knew how to twist the knife.

Lazuli bunting in yard. Needs cooler name.

This house is protected by Nerf. Seriously, we are armed to the teeth, Nerf-wise.

Entering the week with this big marmot energy.

Hike gets an extra ten points if it has a sketchy little bridge over a dangerously fast moving stream.

Hiking up in Little Cottonwood Canyon, caught this woodpecker woodpecking.

Bought some balloons for a birthday party. Party store didn’t properly tie them, so as I’m driving home they suddenly go on a random walk through the car and I can’t see. What flashes through my mind is (a) this is a *really* dumb way to die and (b) this would make a great torts exam question.

Can he do his own stunts? Mais oui! Can he speak his own French? Mais non!

David Foster Wallace be like: “This is dishes.”

16yo’s memory of NY: “When I was at PS199 [2d grade], I got some award that came with a $5 gift card to Magnolia Bakery. You took me & I got a slice of chocolate cake. But it was so big I only finished half. And sometimes when I’m hungry I still think about the other half of that slice of cake.”

❌ let's get that bread ❌ let's get that cheddar ✅ let's get that cheesy bread

A family obligation resulted in me going on a cruise. Here’s Samuel Johnson with my review: “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” From Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

Me in my black pants, shirt, shoes and hoodie. 15yo: You look like a homeless ninja. 9yo: An *unhoused* ninja.

NGL, I think I would be good at filibustering. “Let me tell you about my favorite Battlestar Galactica episodes. Ranked.”

Settle an argument. The firm bowling team should be named: Causa Bowli Cui Bowlo? Jus ad Bowlum Ex Bowl Facto Sparé Decisis Res Ipsa Bowlquitur

Post a warning.

Tough, but fair.

want to feel old? this is caillou today

ChamPLAIN. From the Lake Champlain district of Vermont. Also, it’s syrup.