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Marquette lawprof / State & fed con law, judicial process / Deeply Minnesotan / Out now: Judges, Judging, & Judgment (Cambridge U Press 2025) / Next: Glacial Morainebilly Elegy (placeholder title / about growing up rural in Tim Walz’s neck of the woods)
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Not the most foundational, but the Jurisprudence of Sport is here for all your analogy needs.
Here, officials being consistent in their calls is pretty central to the whole endeavor.
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It's a corruption of "Habea's corpse," which of course refers to the earthly remains of Habea, who in Greek mythology was the Muse of Obliviousness.
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If your point is that “sometimes” seems to suggest a lower-than-appropriate frequency, then, yes, I probably should have used “often” instead.
But given the world we live in I’d invite you to think of “sometimes” as the offering of a gateway drug.
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Split the difference, kind of?:
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It has been my experience that there are some (definitely not all) reporters who are happy just to have a quote from someone with a title and/or name recognition. If it weren't my habit not to comment on things I don't know enough about I could be in/on the news much more often.
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The ratio of people who imagine themselves to be polymaths to actual polymaths is, I'd guess, pretty high.
(Says me, the guy who just published a book drawing on several other disciplines ... it's a tough line to walk, being a strident advocate of intellectual humility ...)
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Yes - big (for me) wave of new followers over the last couple days. I was wondering what was behind it, because although my recent dog post got a decent number of likes it seemed unlikely that was the cause ...
So, welcome new followers! I am currently in between episodes of being interesting.