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I’m sending out snail mail zoning notices in the morning. Few may notice, but I love signing them with a fountain pen. This time, a Sailor 1911 medium nib withVan Dieman’s Styx Valley ink. And yes, I list a Bluesky account. Unlike other places, people don’t need an account to read stuff here.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Ohio Supreme Court: Attorney-client privilege doesn't protect substance-free emails to gov't clients that merely say a privileged memo is attached. Also: -Email from gov't client's work acc't to his personal acc't = public record. -Same email from client's personal acc't to outsider ≠ public record.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I doubt the added fines will be a deterrence, but dramatically increasing the chance that a motorist will get caught for illegally passing a bus is more important than dramatically increasing the fine. It’s super-smart to use cameras on school busses to catch illegal bus-passers.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is good. A license to drive should be based on a person's ability to control the roving death machines that motor vehicles are. The licenses should not be suspended for non-driving-related reasons.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The City of Columbus has a deer problem, but the one thing I don't want to see is a new criminal offense (even a minor misdemeanor or civil contempt charge) of deer feeding, which is on the table. I can't have a garden anymore without significant fencing, but no one should be jailed for that.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I got closer to Napoleon than all but a few. As a high school student, looking down at his tomb from above in the «Dôme des Invalides», I dropped the lens cap of my camera into the ring around the casket. I went down and a guard let me jump the stone railing and retrieve the cap.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One of my spit-in-the-wind opinions—schools and other local government should be allowed to assess pretty much whatever tax they want. If voters don’t like the officials’ tax choices, they can vote at elections to put new people in office or with their feet to move somewhere else.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Never trust a cop who refuses to wear or use a body cam, or who turns it off at just the “right” time. Never trust a law enforcement agency that refuses to record their officers when they’re interrogating or using violence.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve heard multiple ethics lawyers say that lawyers should immediately self-report criminal charges & convictions because, absent an acquittal, if there’s any hope for redemption & a lesser sanction, it’s from acceptance of responsibility & demonstrated rehabilitation. This guy’s a dishonest fool.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

On my reading list. So-called “confessions” may be the type of evidence where the perception of accuracy is most out of whack w/ the reality of accuracy. Too few judges & jurors understand that the methods cops are trained to use are designed to get a person to say what the cop wants, not the truth.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It looks like DOJ fired either: 1) all its administrative staff or 2) all the lawyers competent enough to know that they need administrative help. Or both.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This post re-taught me a different lesson—don’t assume you know the rules. I was about to post about how Garamond had one use—it was the smallest font on the Ohio Supreme Court’s list of prescribed fonts, & in a crunch it gives you more words. I pulled up the rules for a screenshot. It wasn’t there.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment