Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….. Still not Jesus.

How hard is it to tell your AI to provide links to actual cases it cites in doing the task you gave it and then read the cases to see if they are actually on point? Cutting a task from 5 hours to 2, with real results, instead of 5 hours to 16 mins with bogus results, has to be an easy choice

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“They’re Hacking Our Minds and Calling It Freedom: The Silent War on American Democracy” We are being manipulated. Our data is weaponized. Our trust is eroding. And democracy is the collateral damage. Please read (or listen). Then share it. Loudly. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

“Facilitate” will become the 21st century’s more insidious version of “with all deliberate speed”.

These BS cabinet meetings, which are just miniature Trump ego rallies, are a waste of TV time. Anyone else notice he seems to only know six or seven adjectives? I had a broader vocabulary when I was 8.

By the way, I’m backing Canada. And admittedly, it’s for a rather simple reason. When my people needed to flee oppression it was Canada that welcomed them after America oppressed them. Yeah, I’m holding a serious grudge over that stuff.

Ever notice how folks angry about anything close to DEI and obsessed with ending it all claim it’s divisive and unfair, but never spent 5% of that energy on things like pervasive job discrimination or discrimination in federal contracting and grant issuances? and they won’t do it now either.

I would not have stood up for giving a badge to a kid who survived cancer either. I would stand up if while doing so a POTUS announced more funding for cancer research, prevention and care however. Otherwise it’s just performative hokum.

A felon pardoning felons. Congrats America. Even for you, this is a new low.

I have a mirror. So I know the hot chicks following me and looking for love are definitely bots.

It’s important to remember most Americans don’t care how many ballots it takes to elect a Speaker of the House. In fact most probably don’t even know what the job is.

No matter who winds up on top at the end, I’m loving the CFP and especially when it shows that polls were almost always BS after numbers 1-3.#proveitonthefield

Alas, all the fireworks had me thinking I need to hurry up and sedate my dog, Dragon. Then I remembered, he is gone now. First New Years without him in 12 years. So I’ll howl in his memory. But before midnight because I’m too old to stay up this late.

You really can’t argue the virtues of Jimmy Carter compared to the vices of others without acknowledging that the electorate went from wanting someone decent after Nixon to now accepting and normalizing someone far worse. We have met the enemy and it is us.

Love watching those NFL games where they give a shoutout to LB Poly because yet another Jackrabbit did something great in a game. What’s it like to go a season without that? #lbpoly

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re being shafted. Know the truth.

My younger sister always makes a sweet potato pie and pecan pie for the holidays because our mother made excellent versions of the pies. It’s one of my favorite reasons to go back home.

Suing a pollster is just a whole different level of petty.

Was there ever a time when we had so many publicly foul-mouthed politicians as we do now? And why are they overwhelmingly from one party?

It’s one thing to argue that the adulation of the CEO shooter is morally untenable. But what about the tactical problem with the shooting? How could anyone think shooting this guy was realistically going to change a thing? It was a futile gesture in every possible sense and not worthy of praise

Day number…forever of “thoughts and prayers” being a useless reaction to murder.

In decidedly in the minority but I think the decision to turn Jamie Dutton full heel was a mistake. Beth remains my second least favorite Dutton. In the hands of a lesser actress than Kelly Reilly she would be completely intolerable instead of riveting.

Another day of DAs making felony prison offers to my clients only to later watch them walk away with a misdemeanor disturbing the peace and no jail time or probation. These folks really should investigate these cases before filing them.

The current era of GOP politics now has reached levels of grift so bad even the ghosts of 19th century American Politicians would be amazed at what they could have gotten away with if they lived in this era.

I swear this latest generation of Lawyers is full of people who can’t stop whining about how traumatic an experience taking the bar exam is/was. As if no one told them when they applied to law school that one day their entire legal future would hinge on passing one test.

Sometimes one might see a lawsuit and think “why would they file this?” And then I remember what Willie Sutton allegedly said when asked why he robbed banks: “that’s where the money is”. Suing the degenerate rich and famous always has the chance of a better payout than suing the degenerate poor.

This CEO murder case is a good time to remind people don’t judge police departments on crime rates. Judge them on CLEARANCE rates. There was nothing they could to stop the shooter, but whether or not they correctly solve it will tell us how good they are at the job.

On the long list of “things we didn’t think we have to tell people but apparently we do” we add: “don’t send text messages proclaiming your interest in raping someone. Again.”

I’ll never understand lawyers who are afraid of going to trial and avoid court. Who grows up dreaming about writing a 20 page memo more than the rush of arguing in front of a jury or cross-examining a witness?

Driving 45 mins to do a 10 min continuance motion because the judge only believes in personal appearances in criminal matters reminds me why sometimes some lawyers hate being lawyers.

Winter head colds cut too much into my cigar time.

I’m focused more on my criminal law cases right now because they lack the inherent garbage time and perpetual rudeness of civil cases.

I haven’t set foot in a brick and mortar store to buy holiday gifts since 2004 or so and have no plans to ever do so again. The sheer joy of buying everything on the 19th or 20th and never interacting with a crowd has been a joy.

I’d be offended by the Biden pardon, except I’ve already seen the pardon power abused so much by the last guy and with no consequences so I’m over it all. My shock sensors are useless now.

Sweet potato pie over pumpkin pie any day of the week.

I’m thankful I didn’t have to spend one minute of Thanksgiving with a Trumper.

I don’t consider myself a man of much faith and America is rapidly becoming a place where one needs a kind of faith to keep going. Because the evidence right now is that the arc of history is not bending towards justice and there are people who are absolutely above the law if enough people say so.

Just out of curiosity, anybody else having a problem seeing people in starter packs?

Gail Simone’s Secret Six was superior to her Birds of Prey. This is akin to asking “which is better? Awesome sex or game changing awesome sex?” I suggest one Read both.

We already dumbed down politics by giving so much attention to a man with the vocabulary of a foul-mouthed 7th grader. We don’t need to make it worse by professionals dumbing themselves down in dress and speech so laypeople aren’t intimidated. Most of them won’t be intimidated at all.

Weekends start and end the same way.

To paraquote the great Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men: It doesn’t matter what you believe. It only matters what you can prove. And when a court throws you case out before it even starts it means you can’t even prove you should be there.

One way to tell a trial lawyer from a litigator: Litigators scream about an objection made during a deposition. If the witness wasn’t instructed by their lawyer not to answer the question, Trial lawyers don’t care about the objection.

Just a couple of weeks since he passed and I miss this doggie even more.