Don’t let the professionally dishonest & the intentionally disingenuous frame an issue as a binary choice of either getting run over or shooting a person. There is literally a universe of options between those two extremes. Stop listening to dolts or liars. Options, create them, and use them…

Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops

Home. MeanCat

No matter what. The Blacky Whiteys

Home. Long day. Back at it in the morning.

I’ve said for the last 6 years while training new colleagues and have written several times in the Washington Post: if you didn’t have a badge & a gun, how would you handle this 911 call? Whatever you come up with that is legal, ethical, and kind, try that first.

To the notion of compliance: too many people saying ‘if she only complied’ as justification. Failure to comply doesn’t interfere with police work. Failure to comply IS police work. Otherwise just put signs up. It’s people not complying that we must handle smartly. With thought

What I told new colleagues last month. Reject the notion that cops don’t have time to think. Do not fall for that crap. That’s an excuse for repeat garbage behaviors. Make time to think. Slow down. Plan. React smartly. Determine WHAT IS THE POINT. Communicate. Or find a new job.

The question if a police shooting is justifiable is just 1 question to ask. 1st: this wasn’t justifiable. But for me the real question is was it inevitable. As police, we must do everything we can to avoid deadly force. Many times the suspect makes it inevitable. Not in this case

When you see the only textbook required for first amendment class is a free & amazing 300-page outline written and provided by the professor. Oh yeah!

The Blacky Whiteys

My Favorite Nemesis

MeanCat Greeting

Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Goodbye. You will be an eternal disgrace and waste.

White supremacists successfully rewrote history after the Civil War, so much so that today people deny what the slave states had proudly proclaimed back then: it was about slavery. And now this group is rewriting history today. They are lying. They are liars. They are liars.

5 years ago, selfish entitled people tried to overthrow our government. As has happened throughout their lives, after initially held accountable, they were coddled & enabled & then pardoned after their selfish leader was re-elected president. Everything flows from that fact.

Welp, I survived the hardest semester of law school. Barely. B minus and two C plus. Terrible but doable. Civpro was insane. I did say in August this semester would be the one to hurt me. Two murder trials plus work plus life plus I’m lazy. But it’s over. And now it gets good.

Made pickled red Thai Chiles, using apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar. Great way to use up the fiery chiles in a tamer and sustained fashion.

Big Leany is a big cat.

Made another batch of green papaya salad. With fresh red Thai chilies. And palm sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, pounded garlic, green beans, cherry tomatoes, and roasted peanuts. Heaven

Big Eyes in the morning

This photo makes me laugh. Big Eyes senior photo in her year book. She was voted Class Assassin.

Photos of bound and blind prisoners are not the flex you think they are. They’re a sign of immense deep weakness on the part of the people taking and sharing those photos, and the society that celebrates it. We are what we do, not what we proclaim.

So the people who don’t want any gun laws in the US charged a president of a foreign country with illegal gun possession in his foreign country? Stop looking for the hypocrisy; it’s their point.

As I love on Grumpy Face Blacky Whitey, and she purrs and purrs, the world distills into this, and all its madness has no place here.

This will be another terrible lesson of the difference between ‘can’ and ‘should’.

What the Trump administration did probably wasn’t ‘illegal’ (for US law anyway, unclear about international law but the US has never cared about that…) but it was definitely insane. The effects of this & the rest of what we’re doing will decay us, will rot us, and will ruin us.

Big Leany is big and he leans. Thank you for your attention to this matter

Big Leany is done reading the news of our doings.

Made bright pickled red onions from Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. Apple cinder vinegar, sugar/salt, bay leaf, Calabrian chiles, and three red onions run over the mandolin. Plus my finger, which MeanCat says won’t need stitches. Nice deep oniony mandolin cut finger gets your attention. Ooff

Made the marinated feta from Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. Cuz we still have some kumquats on the tree. Easy recipe. Wonderful flavors. Rinse the feta, cut into cubes. Heat oil with Calabrian chiles & black peppercorns. Remove peppercorns. Pour over bay leaves, kumquats, salt. Pour over feta in jar.

Made the Calabrian chile crisp from Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. Two points: 1) this took a while to make, as she noted in the recipe. 2) OH MY GOD IT IS SO GOOD. it’s so different than my go-to homemade chili crisp. Hard to describe. I need to cut the salt next time. But wow.

I wake up and see we’ve invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president?

Jaded

Home. And happy to be. MeanCat was already sleeping in his Airbnb in the kitchen cuz he doesn’t do chilly.

Dolts who think gold-plated junk is good also think “gold-standard science” is good. Branding science like a scammy kitchen appliance is working about as well as you would think, if you actually thought about it but most won’t cuz grifters told them to only trust the grifters.

Beyond rare. The. Little. Kitty. Big Leany (who is not nice to Little Kitty), The Extra Orangey, and The Baked Potato. Relaxing before bedtime

The Dark Orangey 2026

Ok. Did a nice skim of Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. And initial impression (I’ve gotten decent at reading recipes & seeing if they work for me) is this might be the best cookbook for us in years. Wow. So much stuff to learn and then do a million times. This is gonna be my life partner for years.

One second after this, Blacky launched herself into the stratosphere. She’s the worst

You don’t need a New Year’s resolution. You need a day’s. Do the right thing today. And then do it again tomorrow. That’s it. All it takes is your life. Day after day. That’s how life is lived. And how it’s wasted. Your choice. We all matter or none of us do. And all means all

I love making this list every year, and I never have any trouble coming up with 50 things I think were genuinely wonderful.

You got punched in 2025. You’re going to get punched in 2026. That’s Big Eyes’ resolution to us all.

Reading new cookbook with Alien Baby Agent Orangey. She was a chef on her home planet.

Big Leany

Alien Baby Agent Orangey and The Extra Orangey. In The Orangey Tower. With the orangey sun shine. As it should be.

MeanCat moved into a larger Airbnb but kept his reservations at the other two. He likes options cuz he fears assassins

It’s rare I think of my life & work before moving back home. I went around the world to end up where I started. I don’t think often of that time, as amazing & intense as it was. Tonight I do think about it. And what we did and who we were and who we lost. Back at it tomorrow

Thinking of you, Darren. Feels like a different life ago, feels like yesterday. Always.