Benjamin Siegel
@bdbs.bsky.social
By day I am an attorney and by night (and also some of the day) I am a guy who is online more than he wants to be. Louisville, KY.
Slightly diminish a book
All the Kings Guys
All the Kings Guys
Slightly diminish a book
1983
1983
Slightly diminish a book.
Moby Glans
Moby Glans
September 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Slightly diminish a book
All the Kings Guys
All the Kings Guys
Me: I am cool. I am in control. I am not becoming an Angry Dad ™️ who gets set off by mild inconveniences.
Also Me: Is every shopping cart at every store absolute dog shit or am I just the unluckiest person on the face of the earth?
Also Me: Is every shopping cart at every store absolute dog shit or am I just the unluckiest person on the face of the earth?
September 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Me: I am cool. I am in control. I am not becoming an Angry Dad ™️ who gets set off by mild inconveniences.
Also Me: Is every shopping cart at every store absolute dog shit or am I just the unluckiest person on the face of the earth?
Also Me: Is every shopping cart at every store absolute dog shit or am I just the unluckiest person on the face of the earth?
@markscarbrough.bsky.social the last two Walking with Dantes have been phenomenal. Can’t believe we are so close to the end of Purgatorio.
August 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@markscarbrough.bsky.social the last two Walking with Dantes have been phenomenal. Can’t believe we are so close to the end of Purgatorio.
Borrowing this excerpt from Pascal’s ‘Pensées’ to use verbatim as the preface to every work email I send from now on.
June 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Borrowing this excerpt from Pascal’s ‘Pensées’ to use verbatim as the preface to every work email I send from now on.
A cool Memorial Day weekend, drinking coffee while I grill burgers like I’m in witness protection or hiding some sort of dangerous secret.
May 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A cool Memorial Day weekend, drinking coffee while I grill burgers like I’m in witness protection or hiding some sort of dangerous secret.
Washing my knuckles off in the courthouse restroom like Matt Murdock in #DaredevilBornAgain, except in my case it's pizza sauce.
March 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Washing my knuckles off in the courthouse restroom like Matt Murdock in #DaredevilBornAgain, except in my case it's pizza sauce.
A funny thing about our government, which was designed to prevent this specifically, is that it will succumb to autocratic changes if the opposition party sits idle and hopes norms will hold. There are no “longstanding” principals that will save us when the president lies about what is longstanding.
Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is”
(This is not how the Constitution works)
(This is not how the Constitution works)
February 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A funny thing about our government, which was designed to prevent this specifically, is that it will succumb to autocratic changes if the opposition party sits idle and hopes norms will hold. There are no “longstanding” principals that will save us when the president lies about what is longstanding.
Being American right now is like being a high information Roman citizen (you spend a lot of time doom scrolling the forum criers) during the Caligula Administration.
February 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Being American right now is like being a high information Roman citizen (you spend a lot of time doom scrolling the forum criers) during the Caligula Administration.
The National Archives is a gem and I’m not surprised T—— will ruin it, damning future generations to a history stained with clumsy propaganda. I expect all good American things to suffer in this Admin. Zion National Park will probably become a manufacturing plant for physical bitcoins or something.
February 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The National Archives is a gem and I’m not surprised T—— will ruin it, damning future generations to a history stained with clumsy propaganda. I expect all good American things to suffer in this Admin. Zion National Park will probably become a manufacturing plant for physical bitcoins or something.
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A good way to make sure that law does not matter at all is to talk and act as if law does not matter at all. It is also very bad politics.
January 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A good way to make sure that law does not matter at all is to talk and act as if law does not matter at all. It is also very bad politics.
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a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
Spending Inauguration Day 2025 like I spend all MLK Days, by reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail, one of the most profoundly beautiful and heart-wrenching things ever written by an American. It’s how I’ll begin the practice of not taking the bait and reacting to every piece of awful daily garbage.
January 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Spending Inauguration Day 2025 like I spend all MLK Days, by reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail, one of the most profoundly beautiful and heart-wrenching things ever written by an American. It’s how I’ll begin the practice of not taking the bait and reacting to every piece of awful daily garbage.
Firing a pirate cannon at the sky as fresh snow covers my Kentucky driveway after I shoveled ice for two hours.
January 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Firing a pirate cannon at the sky as fresh snow covers my Kentucky driveway after I shoveled ice for two hours.
Favorite fiction I read in 2024: 11/22/63 (Stephen King) and Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir).
Non-fiction: Crisis of the House Divided (Harry Jaffa) and Nixon Agonistes (Gary Wills).
Favorite 2024 movies: Dune 2 and Nosferatu.
Projected least fav 2025 watch: Louisville Mens Basketball Conference Play.
Non-fiction: Crisis of the House Divided (Harry Jaffa) and Nixon Agonistes (Gary Wills).
Favorite 2024 movies: Dune 2 and Nosferatu.
Projected least fav 2025 watch: Louisville Mens Basketball Conference Play.
December 28, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Favorite fiction I read in 2024: 11/22/63 (Stephen King) and Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir).
Non-fiction: Crisis of the House Divided (Harry Jaffa) and Nixon Agonistes (Gary Wills).
Favorite 2024 movies: Dune 2 and Nosferatu.
Projected least fav 2025 watch: Louisville Mens Basketball Conference Play.
Non-fiction: Crisis of the House Divided (Harry Jaffa) and Nixon Agonistes (Gary Wills).
Favorite 2024 movies: Dune 2 and Nosferatu.
Projected least fav 2025 watch: Louisville Mens Basketball Conference Play.
Working on an academic article that will get roundly rejected by every economist in the country where I argue that our society should be entirely based on the foundational model of early childhood board games where everyone is on the same team, usually against some sort of malicious animal.
December 10, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Working on an academic article that will get roundly rejected by every economist in the country where I argue that our society should be entirely based on the foundational model of early childhood board games where everyone is on the same team, usually against some sort of malicious animal.
Do you guys think I can read 11 books in 23 days to get back on track for my StoryGraph reading challenge?
December 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Do you guys think I can read 11 books in 23 days to get back on track for my StoryGraph reading challenge?
Mall Santas are a true leap of faith for children. “The immortal elf genie who can travel the world in one evening and who was canonized hundreds of years ago will be visiting our town soon, we are going to go see him. He will be right next to the indoor Chik-Fil-A.”
December 5, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Mall Santas are a true leap of faith for children. “The immortal elf genie who can travel the world in one evening and who was canonized hundreds of years ago will be visiting our town soon, we are going to go see him. He will be right next to the indoor Chik-Fil-A.”
Trump was visited by the ghost of Capitalism yet to come and thankfully they seemed to have gotten along.
Jeff Bezos offered his most extensive comments to date about Donald Trump’s return to power. He praised Trump’s deregulatory agenda, and the leadership of Elon Musk, who is set to be the president-elect’s partner in cost-cutting.
Jeff Bezos, a Past Trump Foe, Is Optimistic About a Second Term
The Amazon founder said he saw signs of a “calmer” Donald J. Trump on the eve of his return to the White House.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Trump was visited by the ghost of Capitalism yet to come and thankfully they seemed to have gotten along.
I appreciate Spotify wrapped as the annual reminder that while (I hope) I’ve matured emotionally and intellectually over the years, I haven’t developed a single inch musically past my early college days. I guess if The Avett Brothers and The Killers aren’t broke, there’s no need to fix them.
December 4, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I appreciate Spotify wrapped as the annual reminder that while (I hope) I’ve matured emotionally and intellectually over the years, I haven’t developed a single inch musically past my early college days. I guess if The Avett Brothers and The Killers aren’t broke, there’s no need to fix them.
With all due respect, Instagram, (1) I don’t use Threads and (2) however that sentence ends, I’m not going to like it.
November 23, 2024 at 5:27 PM
With all due respect, Instagram, (1) I don’t use Threads and (2) however that sentence ends, I’m not going to like it.
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Yes. This. Each time I post about the hypocrisy I'm getting these kinds of cynical responses, and really, stop it. I get that everyone copes in their own way, but don't pre-give in. Fight for your actual rights. Call out the hypocrisy. Not to convince them, but to remind everyone else.
Getting a lot of replies along the lines of "oh, you rube, you still think the law matters" and it feels strategically foolish to just concede that it doesn't. Contest everything. Expose the hypocrisy.
November 18, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Yes. This. Each time I post about the hypocrisy I'm getting these kinds of cynical responses, and really, stop it. I get that everyone copes in their own way, but don't pre-give in. Fight for your actual rights. Call out the hypocrisy. Not to convince them, but to remind everyone else.
As I got out of the car this morning a large drop of parking garage ceiling water, jostled free by the cars above, careened and erupted onto my coffee cup lid, betokening a grim future practicing law in the time of AG Gaetz.
November 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM
As I got out of the car this morning a large drop of parking garage ceiling water, jostled free by the cars above, careened and erupted onto my coffee cup lid, betokening a grim future practicing law in the time of AG Gaetz.
My longstanding Dante obsession has prepared me well to have just turned 35 on Nov 8th, immediately after my country was overrun with extremists who bastardize Christianity to enrich themselves and hurt as many people as possible. I’m going to write something so good in my inevitable exile.
November 10, 2024 at 2:23 PM
My longstanding Dante obsession has prepared me well to have just turned 35 on Nov 8th, immediately after my country was overrun with extremists who bastardize Christianity to enrich themselves and hurt as many people as possible. I’m going to write something so good in my inevitable exile.
This morning I was in an #ElectionDay anger spiral of “How can an election between these two people possibly be so close?” and then I opened Instagram and quickly saw two videos from those professional slapping competitions.
November 5, 2024 at 1:50 PM
This morning I was in an #ElectionDay anger spiral of “How can an election between these two people possibly be so close?” and then I opened Instagram and quickly saw two videos from those professional slapping competitions.
The Halloween before a critical election invites me to evaluate Dad Tax policy for Trick or Treat income. I want most of my kids’ chocolate and feel that parenting infrastructure allowed for the haul in the first place, but I don’t want to provide a formative core memory that makes them Libertarian.
October 31, 2024 at 12:44 PM
The Halloween before a critical election invites me to evaluate Dad Tax policy for Trick or Treat income. I want most of my kids’ chocolate and feel that parenting infrastructure allowed for the haul in the first place, but I don’t want to provide a formative core memory that makes them Libertarian.