I agree with you in principle (and I took more classes that dealt with ConLaw issues than average or necessary!) but knowing some principles of conlaw is still different from memorizing the canon of conlaw cases, of which there are hundreds.
January 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I agree with you in principle (and I took more classes that dealt with ConLaw issues than average or necessary!) but knowing some principles of conlaw is still different from memorizing the canon of conlaw cases, of which there are hundreds.
If we extend your analogy, I would expect a lawyer to know what the First Amendment is, along with a number of other general legal principles. Case names are different (and lawyers have specialties and very few of them involve the First Amendment!)
January 15, 2026 at 10:37 PM
If we extend your analogy, I would expect a lawyer to know what the First Amendment is, along with a number of other general legal principles. Case names are different (and lawyers have specialties and very few of them involve the First Amendment!)
Fwiw, I didn’t get that case in law school and haven’t had reason to engage with it professionally. I didn’t know it by name but I have heard about the “fuck the draft” shirt case. Memorizing cases isn’t super helpful for practicing - it’s being able to find relevant cases when you need them.
January 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Fwiw, I didn’t get that case in law school and haven’t had reason to engage with it professionally. I didn’t know it by name but I have heard about the “fuck the draft” shirt case. Memorizing cases isn’t super helpful for practicing - it’s being able to find relevant cases when you need them.
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went out to see James McMurtry play the second floor of the Continental Club tonight. killer set. his latest album is some of the best sad old white man music i've heard in a While
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
went out to see James McMurtry play the second floor of the Continental Club tonight. killer set. his latest album is some of the best sad old white man music i've heard in a While
Watched the whole Long Strange Trip doc while sick yesterday, for some of the historical context. Plan is to listen to the Dick’s Pick’s series of 36 live recordings and use Hyden/Mitchum 36 From the Vault podcast as an accompaniment. Open to additional homework of course!
Think I might fuck around and finally get into the Dead this year
January 13, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Watched the whole Long Strange Trip doc while sick yesterday, for some of the historical context. Plan is to listen to the Dick’s Pick’s series of 36 live recordings and use Hyden/Mitchum 36 From the Vault podcast as an accompaniment. Open to additional homework of course!
Even having never been a fan, it strikes me as crazy that people act like there isn’t an obvious answer for “who is the greatest American band?” every time that prompt goes around. It is clearly the Grateful Dead!
January 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Even having never been a fan, it strikes me as crazy that people act like there isn’t an obvious answer for “who is the greatest American band?” every time that prompt goes around. It is clearly the Grateful Dead!
Think I might fuck around and finally get into the Dead this year
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Think I might fuck around and finally get into the Dead this year
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Twin Peaks: A Varied Thrush from the opening titles.
January 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Twin Peaks: A Varied Thrush from the opening titles.
It was fine but also the servers at half the showings I went to during the pilot were telling us not to bother with mobile orders because it messes stuff up and to just use paper and pen the whole time
January 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
It was fine but also the servers at half the showings I went to during the pilot were telling us not to bother with mobile orders because it messes stuff up and to just use paper and pen the whole time
I’ve thought about it for a week or so and I must issue a correction: my album of the year is Fantasy by DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. Apologies to Real Lies, whose album We Will Annihilate Our Enemies moves into the #2 slot. we are listening and learning.
put the aoty list up 3 days before DJ Sabrina dropped a new three-hour, 40 track album. reeling.
djsabrinatheteenagedj.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy
djsabrinatheteenagedj.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy
December 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’ve thought about it for a week or so and I must issue a correction: my album of the year is Fantasy by DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. Apologies to Real Lies, whose album We Will Annihilate Our Enemies moves into the #2 slot. we are listening and learning.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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put the aoty list up 3 days before DJ Sabrina dropped a new three-hour, 40 track album. reeling.
djsabrinatheteenagedj.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy
djsabrinatheteenagedj.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy
December 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
put the aoty list up 3 days before DJ Sabrina dropped a new three-hour, 40 track album. reeling.
djsabrinatheteenagedj.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy
djsabrinatheteenagedj.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy
This is only true if you define the carousel as excluding the firings. LSU and PSU opening would have been massive shocks in August
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is only true if you define the carousel as excluding the firings. LSU and PSU opening would have been massive shocks in August
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J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
today I finally ended a two year long quest to obtain a good quality digital version of “Deep Burnt” by Pepe Bradock, courtesy of this excellent Masters at Work compilation ordered used off discogs and this LG cd ripper I finally got around to buying. and they said I didn’t have my life together
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
today I finally ended a two year long quest to obtain a good quality digital version of “Deep Burnt” by Pepe Bradock, courtesy of this excellent Masters at Work compilation ordered used off discogs and this LG cd ripper I finally got around to buying. and they said I didn’t have my life together
He doesn’t even make it to the line of scrimmage lmao
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
He doesn’t even make it to the line of scrimmage lmao
If you take away the 88 yard TD run he still ran 28 times for 140 and a TD. Unironic legacy game for him
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you take away the 88 yard TD run he still ran 28 times for 140 and a TD. Unironic legacy game for him
hanging out on a different planet
October 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
hanging out on a different planet
Unreal how good TV on the Radio are. They’ve only grown more powerful during the hiatus.
September 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Unreal how good TV on the Radio are. They’ve only grown more powerful during the hiatus.
Wednesday at Levitation yesterday.
What a band.
What a band.
September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wednesday at Levitation yesterday.
What a band.
What a band.