How did *you* ever learn how to do *that*?

Reading employment law decisions is like: "Plaintiff did not demonstrate she engaged in protected activity when she showed supervisor video of coworker 'wagging' his exposed, brightly-painted genitals at her, as it was not clear sharing the video was intended as complaint." (7th Cir).

Happy new year Greco-Roman, 400 BCE

I really need to delete TikTok from my phone.

…come on, now.

How I am walking out of 2025:

hey girl, is your body a reliquary, because I feel compelled to attribute historical and theological relevance to all of your bones

In many’s looks the heart’s history Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange

What in the chapped-ass half-drunk fall-down fuck is wrong with you, Mass Lawyers Weekly?

From LinkedIn, a good point and an absolute garbage take twisted so tightly around each other that they need a safeword, if not an EMT standing by monitoring vital signs:

Though I find middle aged male yearning for antiheroes, like Tony Soprano, Walter White to be the reddest of flags, shallow, etc… Right now I am about one disappointment away from cursing an infant princess, dooming lovers to life as predator/prey animals, trapping a kingdom in eternal sleep, etc.

I once declined to request more information from Vlade Divac.

Good news. I was wrong about the trial date. I have plenty of time to find my shoes.

…I’m sure it is.

Me as an associate: Me: Our position is correct and our argument is sound. The only question is whether this will be recognized by the trial court or on appeal. Partner: … Me: What? Partner: Your analysis is that we know better than the judge. Me: We *may* know better than the judge.

Ruin two bands by combining them? The Pixiestyx

It was a Sunday tradition. Catholic Mass at St Seamus the Distiller, a medium regular at Dunks, then riding the T and jacking it all day. Now the woke mob wants to take it all away

Masterful phrasing.

"How could you tell that language was copied from a police report?" -I just could. "But how?" -There were a few tells. "What?" -One or more utilizations of certain specified terminology, which, per my training and experience, were consistent with usage in the narrative portion of such a verb-

…it could be, perhaps

"One shivers slightly, looking up there. The hardness and the brightness and the plain Far-reaching singleness of that wide stare Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can’t come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere." umm. Correct, Phil.

Good morning. Billionaires are welfare queens. Happy last Monday of 2025.

Rewatching the Princess Bride, for the first time in twenty years. Holy shit Cary Elwes.

My birthstone is that rock in your shoe that makes you bend over and untie your whole sneaker and shake it out and nothing falls out and you shrug and put your shoe back on and retie it but the bow isn’t as good so you have to keep tying your sneakers again all day.

I can’t find any of my heels. Shall I lie to myself about how far out I am from trial, to see if they come out of hiding?

I am annoyed that the first time I looked into Mary Tynan, I mistook her for another Mary; I got only half the story. And if I had known more about 19th-century Massachusetts, I probably would have caught the error immediately.

Jury has a question. …about? Damages.

Sometime in the 1990s or so, Democrats saw how Republicans juiced turnout by appealing to their base and went, “Wow, we should do that, too! We should appeal to the Republican base!”

There is no value to society in having a computer appear to be human, nonetheless sufficient value to make up for the losses attributed to ai to date. Sorry, Gigolo Joe. You got to go.

God, I am so fucking sad.

Got through it. Nearly all of it. Apart from that, who remembers.

The movie Willow kind of really holds up.

Is this, tho, how:

That Tewksbury was a horror is undisputed; the nature and degree of horror have been up for debate, over the years. See. newspapers.bc.edu?a=d&d=pilot1...

I was involved briefly with a man injured in a similar manner, except on roller skates. He healed up fine; I weaseled out of our involvement because he was too tall, too rich, and liked me too much.

A thing I'd recommend is taking some time to write a letter to you in six months. Screw a new years resolution: resolve what kind of citizen you'll be in 2026. Making your decisions now helps in the moment when things will seem confusing. Write down your road map: what is good and valuable?

In Massachusetts, after the Anthony Burns case in 1854, the bar prohibited Massachusetts attorneys from representing people seeking bounties for turning Massachusetts residents over to those who would enslave them. Agents were also prohibited from most public buildings.

This is how I sext:

Sexts I receive:

Not me, but: “When I ask for a draft, I’m not asking for a first draft.”

A Justice system that allows voo-doo is no Justice system at all www.propublica.org/article/911-...

Mary was, perhaps, eighteen years old and five months pregnant when she boarded the S. S. Tripoli in Cobh -- was at that time, called Queenstown due to an outbreak of imperialism which wouldn't be tamped down for another thirty years or so -- in the fall of 1868.

Maybe I lack sophistication, but I thought the difference between having a "captive" and being self-insured was that this kind of thing wasn't supposed to happen, due to management of reserves, reinsurance, and regulations...

DMs that catch a block:

Sexts I receive:

Mary was interviewed several times, between her attack in 1874 and Thomas Piper’s deathbed “confession” in 1876. The only suspect was Dana Colby. Her answer was that she didn’t remember if it was him, and she wouldn’t tell anyone it was him, if she did remember.

Last night I had a nightmare that people were being sorted into a bomb shelter thingie in a post apocalyptic world based on eugenic criteria and I lost track of my daughter while trying to help some guy hide that he was bringing in three kids instead of two.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

“It wouldn’t be worth it.”

And, perhaps: