The Questionable Authority

Jn 11:35

I am begging people, please take a minute or two to understand what "The Hague" is and how it works, because if you do you might not say stupid stuff about how people should be "sued" there for various things.

If I ever filed a substantively important document _in camera_, without advance leave of the court, and without **first** informing opposing counsel of what I had done and why I was doing it, I would be very lucky to escape without getting referred to the state bar for discipline.

The training for escaping a helicopter in the water is a Thing. I used to help with some of the preliminary training when I worked in aquatics at Ft. Novosel. You get dropped in the water, in seat with 5-point harness, three times. Once normally. Once in the dark. And once in the dark upside down.

In the car, on the way to work this morning, the perfect answer to an oral argument question spontaneously popped into my mind. The argument was six weeks ago.

It was only a matter of time.

Holy mother of all shirtballs, forked and unforked, past, present, and until the heat death of the universe.

Thomas Chattering Williams needs to apologize to a tree.

Note for anyone wondering if NYAYAM will sell your data: I have tried to find a privacy policy. I cannot. Also it told me I couldn't ask another question without paying for 1 week, and identified my device ID in telling me why.

Art.

The "honest recommendation" here - to clear your browser history after you finish confessing your crime to the chatbot - may be criminally problematic. But it's not my jurisdiction. @barristersecret.bsky.social - any thoughts?

It will be very interesting to see if the notoriously litigious Seuss copyright holders have a take on the John Oliver segment.