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Husband, dad, appellate & IP lawyer, law professor, writer, men’s college trustee, college fraternity leader, adoption advocate, cocktail maker, and DC dining enthusiast. Member of ALI and AAAL; #AppellateTwitter refugee.
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submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s how the LA Times edited (massacred) an op-ed to make it say something very different from what the author originally wrote.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Fly Schrödinger Air: It’s both safe and not safe.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

PETER DOOCY: Given DEI hires, it's not safe to fly commercially, is it? LEAVITT: The president believes it is still indeed safe. With that said ...

submitted 96 days ago • 531 comments

I can’t believe we’re here, but here we are.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

For no particular reason, here is Orson Welles reminding you to apply critical thinking to the media you consume. The dominant broadcast mediums change over time, but the relevancy of the message will remain as ever.

submitted 107 days ago • 8 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

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An odd way to learn of this honor, but I got tagged in a LinkedIn post this morning notifying me that I appeared at No. 1 on this list of "The Top 25 Intellectual Property Attorneys of 2024." attorneyintel.com/the-top-25-i...

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Important reminder: Dunking on stupid shit just amplifies the stupid shit. Join the campaign for 4S: Stop spreading stupid shit.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

AYFKM?

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Me today:

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...

submitted 137 days ago • 960 comments

“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not convinced, @wsj.com.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, this just gave me an idea. As good as Bowen Yang has been on @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social playing JD Vance, can you imagine four years of Peter Dinklage playing JD Vance? TFG would destroy so many bottles of ketchup.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Conan O’Brien lost both of his two remarkable parents within the last week. Read about his father here. archive.ph/2024.12.13-0...

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submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

If I were teaching Corporations (or Business Associations, or whatever your law school calls it), I would make question #1 on the final examination this Tweet with the prompt “Discuss.”

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

So do you think that Justices Alito and Thomas are going to strike down Tennessee’s law on gender-affirming care for teens on the ground that it interferes with parents’ “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of” their children? Or nah?

submitted 149 days ago • 3 comments

I was already following about 3/4 of these — this is a great list.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

You claim empathy with those children and parents, but then promptly pivot to insisting that states’ rights trump theirs. That’s empty empathy. Conservatism was supposed to mean individual liberty and local decisionmaking. This deprives the local people best suited to decide—parents—from deciding.

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

A few highlights from this year’s Christmas tree.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments