Somebody in my firm lost a motion to dismiss a few months ago, and I filed a motion to reargue it for them. Time ticked away, and the deadline for us to perfect an appeal is Monday, so I finished the brief last night at 3:30 a.m. to send around for circulation. Reargument granted tonight at 6:30.

I, too, have gotten so drunk I blacked out and found myself in a new place with no memory of how I got there.

Geologically inaccurate; the Straight of Hormuz is actually closing itself as the Arabian Plate moves north towards the Persia- Tibet- Burma Orogeny.

I grew up in poverty and am now compartively wealthy, and so I'm intimately familiar with the way that people across the economic spectrum handle their personal finances. CNBC anchors, apparently, are not, and should not pretend to be.

I don’t care what you think about Mamdani as a politician — it’s so, so rare that non-Muslims in the US are exposed to anything about Islamic spiritually, not a propagandistic conflict frame. Beautiful description of Ramadan’s purpose: actively practicing empathy for our fellow human family.

I'd also highly recommend Eichmann in Jerusalem to anybody who hopes to have a hand in where we go from here.

In retrospect it was not a good idea to elect the guy who had a stroke during the campaign. I was wrong about this; I will take the L on it.

Professional Wrestling is, I think, a pretty decent example of non-toxic masculinity.

I am not an academic, so I will ask academics: if you write the title, abstract, and introduction, and then ask an AI to write the rest of your law review article... isn't what you're writing a piece of advocacy rather than a piece of scholarship? You're just telling an AI to confirm your priors.

Bahamas? Cocaine, caffeine, and painkillers? Late March? Yeah, yeah, yeah, rich kids on spring break, arent' we all.

A better time for the internet.

Genuinely don't know how I feel about this. I've never before heard of a driver being charged with second degree manslaughter for speeding. No allegation of intoxication, just that he was going 82 in a 40 zone. Prosecutors say shutting off stability control shows recklesness; that doesn't sit right.

I've seen this happening quite clearly recently. I have to be honest, I feel about Partner supporters the way I imagine Bulwark people must have felt about MAGA in 2015: this shit is poison and simply cannot be allowed to be.

In Catch-22, Milo Minderbinder replaces all the CO2 cartridges in the life vests in bombing planes with notes about how he's made a profit selling the cartridges elsewhere, and I think that's a pretty good analogy for the use of AI generated legal documents. 99% of the time it won't matter.

There are like 7 entirely separate and distinct misintepretations or misunderstandings about how the legal system and lawyers work contained in this brief post; it's fascinating. Russian nesting dolls of wrongness.

They could never make this kind of a blanket statement about Republican Presidents because almost all current Democratic politicians have extremely fond memories of the Eisenhower administration.

It's curious that I've spent virtually my entire life living in NYC or Detroit, but 3 of my top 5 worst airport experiences all happened at LAX (the 2 below and the time I took a redeye from SFO to LAX, landed at 12:00 a.m., and the entire plane had to wait until 3:00 a.m. for our bags to come out).

If this is the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history, then clearly the U.S. isn't trying hard enough. Next time the US beats Japan in the World Baseball Classic somebody needs to say "I haven't seen a massacre like that since Nanjing!"

Since my SUV has been in the shop for a month, I've been thinking about how my next car to replace it with will almost certainly be an electric car. For me, in a high-electricy cost area, charging an EV at home overtnight isn't noticably cheaper than buying gas for a big SUV. That math is changing.

The distance between the southern border of Troy, Michigan and the norther border of Detroit, Michigan is the same as the distance from my office next to the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, also in Manhattan.

Portland is one of my favorite places in the world, and were it not for the fact that the legal system in Maine couldn't support the type of attorney I am it's probably the only place I'd ever consider moving away from New York to.

Trying to think of any parallel where one extremely stupid and extremely egotistical man was allowed to ruin so much for his own idiocy, and the closest I'm coming is the Nivelle Offensive in WWI. Nivelle was given absolute power because of phrenology (seriously) but his disaster only lasted 3 weeks

Good news for American frackers.

I am an absolute pacifist who never believes violence is acceptable. I've also been punched in the face before, and not enough of these people have been.

Well at least it didn't cost them much money.

If confirmed, Markwayne Mullin will be the first Cabinet Secretary without a Bachelor's degree since James Davis, Labor Secretary under Herbert Hoover.

Counterpoint: Soros Wealth Management is where Scott Bessent made his money

This is, at a minimum, a mid- six figure sanction against attorneys for using AI to write briefs.

He just named checked Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and fucking ROGER CASEMENT in an official video about Saint Patrick's Day. I have never been so enamored of a politician. As the father of kids named A i s l i n g and F i n n e g a n Murphy I bestow honorary Irish- American status on Mamdani.

Because I changed my first, middle, and last names when I turned 18, my birth certificate doesn't match my name. My passport expired in January. I applied for a renewal in November. It is now March and it has not arrived. I have no proof that I'm a US citizen.

The US' first 5- star military officer in WWII was George Marshall, who never led troops in battle but was in charge of the military's entire logistics operations, because that was seen as the most important part of the war effort.

When I was in college, I was so obsessed with the "to the manor born" pun that I wanted to make my own Shakespeare pun and so I tortured out a poem about a family where everybody kills themselves with a shotgun just to make a "custom more honored in the breech than the observance" pun. Awful poem.

I come from a military family. My father was an absolutely atrocious Army officer, but aside from him virtually every male relative I had fought in WWII (along with my paternal grandmother, who was a commissioned Army nurse). Trump genuinely has disrespect for troops. He thinks they're suckers.

Please stop carrying water for the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

On the one hand, saying that the concept of introspection is only 100 years old is one of the most ahistorical statements I've ever heard; on the other hand, it does actually fit with his statement in the same clip that only losers ever think about history or the past.

"I'm writing my dissertation on why it's gay to have emotions"

There's a certain class of work I refer to generically as "abattoir floor work." It's work that is necessary and societally important, which, if someone genuinely enjoys doing it, means I don't want to socialize with them.

Spoken like somebody who's never asked an AI to plan a race war.

One of the fascinating things about the Trump II administration is that they're corrupt in ways that I never even could have conceived of in November 2024. It was beyond the limits of my imagination that DOD officials would time foreign bombing campaigns based off of their bets in betting markets.

Periodically I see posts like this from people comparing their mortgage payments to people's car loans. In 2010, I was living in Brooklyn paying $1,200 / month in rent ($2,400 split with a roommate). I bought a $65,000 Porsche Cayman with a monthly payment of about $1,200. I loved that car so much

This specific article is easy to dunk on, but automotive costs have gotten ***insane*** since COVID, vastly outstripping inflation: US Median new car transaction price: 2019: $38,000 2026: $49,000 US Median monthly car insurance payment: 2019: $125 2026: $210

If the United States had a better-designed government we would be having a no-confidence vote in Trump and he'd be removed by the end of the week.

Easy peasy

The single best strategy I have ever seen union organizers use to solve this problem is introductory CBAs for 8(f) construction unions. You have a standard industry CBA, and an introductory CBA. The introductory CBA starts with full benefits and just cause termination, etc., but has a wage ramp. 1/2

Who would have thought that out of everybody on The Wire, Wallace would be the first one to win an Oscar.

Fact check: false. In the gearhead world, they say that the most expensive used car you can buy is a cheap Mercedes. I'vee learned this to my sorrow with a $4,500 1991 560SEL that I spent $20k in repairs on before giving it away for free. Nothing more expensive than cheap AI professional advice.

Trick question: A) I have a waterproof/ air proof/ everything proof bed bug cover on my mattress that blood can't get through. Take that of and wash it or replace it. B) If you don't have such a cover, wash the blood off best you can and then put a bed bug cover over the mattress so you can't see it

On the use of generative AI in the law: I feel like people don't really realize that in the past 3 years HUNDREDS of attorneys have been sanctioned for using AI to write briefs. The attorneys in this case are probably going to lose their licenses and might potentially even go to jail for using AI.

Was just re-reading the Wikipedia page for the F-35, and it is *astonishing* to me the hubris involved in thinking NATO will still exist in 2070.

With IVF, a number of embryos are produced, only a small handful of which are viable. They're then frozen to be implanted later. Embryos created at the same time can become children born years apart. My daughter's best friend's 8th birthday party was this morning. Her identical twin sister is 5.