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Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him

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An overhead shot of an in-progress game of Tag! The Jurisdiction Game.
This is what happens to us in music: First one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and delimit it as a separate life. Then it requires some exertion and goodwill to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expres-sion, and kindhearted about its oddity. Finally there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing; and now it continues to compel and enchant us relentlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it. But that is what happens to us not only in music. That is how we have learned to love all things that we now love... Even those who love themselves will have learned it in this way; for there is no other way. Love, too, has to be learned. —Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
A close-up of the game board and pieces for Tag! The Jurisdiction Game.
Jimothy, the Seattle-area, short-spined raccoon. He looks like a squonk.
The game board, cards, pieces, instructions, and box for Tag! The Jurisdiction Game.
Also Tilda Swinton looking like a cowboy.
Portrait of Tilda Swinton dressed kinda like a cowboy. From: https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/tilda-swinton-tim-walker-photos-family-history-john-singer-sargent
Th oil painting made for the 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray film, now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The opening selection screen from Dark Castle.
There was a lot of viewpoint diversity, that’s for sure. It was a small faculty, but you could find a ton of different opinions. Stone was left-of-center; he was the law school’s young prince, I think. Posner was right-of-center; he was the law school’s king, even as a judge. A follower of Stigler, he founded economic analysis of law, which definitely leaned right in those days. Epstein had strong libertarian leanings. He liked property rights. He liked freedom of contract. He had an account, growing every year, of what government could and could not do. Currie, Easterbrook, and Scalia were originalists, before originalism was all that much of a thing. (Posner was no originalist. Stone and Strauss were not originalists, not close.) Meltzer seemed to me to be a New Deal liberal. Blum didn’t much like the progressive income tax (he was conservative, I am pretty sure). Levi was a Republican of a Burkean sort. Wood did not seem highly political, not at all, but she did seem moderately left-of-center. McConnell was, broadly speaking, a cultural conservative, very different from Epstein and Posner. Strauss was left-of-center; he was focused on racial discrimination (and wrote brilliantly about colorblindness). (Note: There were no Marxists. There were no critical legal studies types. No one followed Foucault. Behavioral economics was not much around, back in the 1980s; to the extent that it was mentioned at all, it was ridiculed. There was viewpoint diversity of specified kinds.)
Tim Wheatley, from Seinfeld. A dentist, not a great and powerful sorcerer.
that weirdo doctor who used to write letters attesting to Trump's incredible health
The Breakfast Club characters: Bender, Andrew, Alison, Clair, Brian.
White veteran-in-a-hat coded dude, but the hat seems to say “PETUNIA.”
Rain chances will be sticking around this week throughout the Pittsburgh area
Mean Girls “stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen,” with “lethality” replacing “fetch.”
Dude Where's My Car? in Dune poster form.
The movie poster for Herzog’sb “Fitzcarraldo,” showing Klaus Kinski madly ordering a ship to be hauled over the Andes.
What are the four core character classes? Wrong answers only.
A hand painted mug that resembles a gnome. Most of the coffee has been drunk.
Joe Rogan is like some barbarian Khan from the steppes that took an interest in intellectual things and his show is basically him bringing slightly nervous scholars and magicians to come before him to explain how the world works "glasses man, you explain to Joe why sky big, and how tree grow" but he will also believe almost anything you tell him, and only recently (in the past few years) does he clap back like Tiny hat man say otherwise, do you lie to Joe? Tiny hat man say fat not bad for you, that sugar is enemy, so which is truth? Joe thinks you are wrong" and people just nervously go "oh-oh ok h-Haha yah I guess so" "Joe spend many moons on horseback and training with bow and sword, but joe also wonder why skyfire rise from mountains every morning, you will explain this
Jeff Bezos, looking dorky.
A closeup of the game board (a stylized map, with humorous state names) with dice and pieces and standees.
William Blake’s The Ancient of Days
Still from Silicon Valley “You could be in the three-comma club, too.”
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech.
Tom Wambsgans with the ATN slogan from Succession: "We Hear For You."
Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) from The Royal Tenenbaums.
Some, but not all, of the AD&D books, old and new.
The infamous four lane merge on the Fort Pitt bridge.
Guy has labeled everything sloppily (Shirt The Dog The House, etc). “Now! . . . That should clear up a few things around here!” It’s basically The Fall of Man.
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
There screenshots from "The Good Place" showing the spokesperson for the Good Place Committee explaining their negotiating strategy with the Bad Place: "He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep on giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy." (Note: there is no explicit indication that the Good Place Committee is made up of Senate Democrats.)
No Bless You for Giacomo?
CIV PRO for real. You’ll use it.
My Pittsburgh voting sticker
As for § 253, tha provision likewise has more specific triggers. Even its most capacious provision, § 253(2), authorizes use of the military only when "any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy... opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." In other words, random acts of protestors that impede ICE operations wouldn't qualify —especially if, as is true in Illinois, local and state officials are actively enforcing state laws against the protestors.
The sheer audacity of suggesting an edit to the man himself, but I think the word "despite" is missing from a sentence in this piece.
Orson Welles promo image for F For Fake
A bit of background context from the article noting that “In 2017, burglars at Berlin's Bode Museum stole a 100-kilogram (220-pound) solid-gold coin.”
New York Times story: Headline: What Happened to Campus Activism Against the War in Gaza? Subhead: Protests swept campuses after the war began. But tough discipline, pushed by Republicans, curbed a student movement that was one of the largest since the Vietnam War.
It me. I’m Mr. Autumn Man.
Principal Skinner says "Yes!"
GIF from Office Space of Michael Bolton saying "Why should I change?. He's the one who sucks."
Our working definition might therefore be as follows: "Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim"
Trump descending the escalator in 2015.
A graph from the article showing the Authoritarian-Libertarian attitudes of various generations, differentiated between high education and medium education. The generations differ somewhat from each other, but much less than the difference between high and medium education. Or, at least that's how I understand it.
The Village PG-13, Released Jul 30, 2004, 1h 49m, Mystery & Thriller 43% Tomatometer 220 Reviews 57% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance...
The goose-chase meme, with the goose demanding ”Championed free speech about what? Free speech about what!!”
The goose-chase meme, with the goose demanding ”Championed free speech about what? Free speech about what!!”
A gin and tonic.
DJT, looking loopy, with a long-ass tie.
Bruce Ledewitz, @BLedewitz Do I understand Justice Kavanaugh to be saying that if the government announces that it is going to arrest every third person of color the police see, no one has standing to seek to enjoin the practice? To mix metaphors, this is standing run amok.
Michael and Janet from the good place. Michael is asking “Un, is everything okay? I mean, other than, you know, everything?”
the ONION America's Finest News Source Thursday, August 28, 2025 Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades Published: February 18, 2004 Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because …
Freud is sometimes referred to as the father of Psychology. While not everyone may like or agree with his ideas, the process of trying to find 'better' ideas than some of his has triggered a huge amount of research within psychology. [I love this because it's basically just saying "his ideas were so crazy and awful that it motivated people to try and find any other explanation just o prove him wrong" like, so much research was done with the basis of "I fucking hate Freud" what a mood]
“Middle Ages bullshit” view of dragons that looks remarkably like our current understanding of dinosaurs. It’s a joke.