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"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Saturday, March 26, 2022

And What Did Congress Do This Week?

Yes, 🇺🇦Parliament still works. We had a sitting yesterday. Yes, we vote laws. Yes, our committees work. Even in war we intend to keep demo...

It’s Still The Same Old Story

And here's another @mboorstein piece on research that links the radicalization of Christian nationalists directly to the desire to limi...

Another Threat To Democracy?

The PBI wants the military to immediately arrest and / or execute the “enemies” listed in their declaration. Their lists of enemies include ...

Friday, March 25, 2022

Don’t Go Fishin’ Where You Don’t Know The Waters

Three quick thoughts: 1. The Ginni Thomas texts were REALLY bad. 2. Justice Thomas’s work is intellectually rigorous and bears no resemblanc...

The Twitter War

“Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a TV interview that only some 12,000 Russian soldiers remain active on...

Playing With My Legal Food

This picture should not be offensive to any elected official in or from Indiana. WE are Indiana, WE belong in Indiana. https://t.co/87ei3hYf...

Free Legal Advice!

Donald Trump has filed a sprawling RICO case against Hillary Clinton and others, alleging a conspiracy to make him look compromised by Russi...

The Ginni Thomas Text Message Controversy Explained

One of the goals of Trump's various allies was to try to get the election settled by the Supreme Court, which Trump has been vocal about...

Russia Isn't Just Running Low On Fuel

I’d always heard it was a bad idea to sleep in cars with the engine running and now I get it. https://t.co/7Jxw4FB1zj — stuart stevens (@stu...

Matt Yglesias Is Out Of His Depth

Being mad that the meaning of words changes over time is not really a great basis for a political ideology. — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesia...

Now Do Roe/Casey

my grandparents were driving in one of the orange states here in the fifties and when they got pulled over they hid my baby aunt in the trun...

Thursday, March 24, 2022

"Bad" Is When I Don't Like It; "Good" Is When I Do

the reason a bunch of white Republican men are smearing a Black woman likely to be the first on SCOTUS with child porn allegations is becaus...

Sour 🍇

I hate Trump a lot but I don’t golly-if-a-prosecutor-says-he-committed-a-crime-he-must-have-committed-one hate him. I don’t hate ANYONE that...

"Let Them Fight"

It’s almost as if Jackson, as a district court judge, has experience dealing with irritating, performatively rude, mediocre white guys. — Ra...

When Russia Fails

This is why Russia will fail. https://t.co/W1AFJaGG1j — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 23, 2022 Or this is why: ‘It’s a Sh*tshow’: Russ...

"The First Shall Be Last, And The Last First"

In a video I’m saying that “in this tough days there is good way to save yourself from those madness that’s going on around, and it very eas...

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Either "Good Faith" Prevails

A sequence from Jackson's hearing that highlights a deep problem of our politics 1 Graham smears Jackson as aiding child pornographers 2...

Absolutely Nothing At All

One day, someone will figure out what happened to Lindsey Graham. — Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 23, 2022 We all inevitably become...

About "Legislating From The Bench"

#BREAKING : #SCOTUS uses shadow docket to summarily throw out Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling adopting Governor Evers’s redistricting maps. ...

In A Grain Of Sand

Sadly, it's where we've been headed for a very, very long time. https://t.co/fSZb8MoGfM pic.twitter.com/R1lWCohD5a — George Conway...

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