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David Morehous
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Experienced business lawyer—focus on corporate, securities, contracts, healthcare, tech, small business. But I also yell on the internet. Blue dot in Knoxville. He/him.
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You have to let the kitty nap on you while you try to type, those are the rules
Generic WFH setup: dark wood desk, gray felt desk pad, Mac wireless keyboard. There’s a messy pile of papers to the left. In the center is a man’s left forearm, wearing a blue fleece. (The man is me, taking the picture.) There’s a large cat draped over the man’s arm — she’s colored like a seal-point Siamese (dark brown back, golden at the shoulders and hips, dark ears and legs), but her dainty feet are creamy white. I’m trying to type; she’s in the way, and not going anywhere.
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Brown and white cat sleeping, with her face propped between piece of knitting and the ball of yarn that’s contributing to the knitting
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The 80s revival of “Chicago” is outstanding. Pretty sure you can get the soundtrack from the usual streaming sources.

For a really deep cut, I found the LP of the original Broadway cast, with Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera in the female leads and Jerry Orbach—Lenny Briscoe himself—as Billy Flynn
Cover of the original Broadway cast album of “Chicago”. Cover painting shows 7 impossibly long-legged dancers wearing teeny undergarments and one above-the-knee dark stocking each. Credits side of the original Broadway cast album of “Chicago”. Above-the-title billing goes to Gwen Verdin, Chita Rivera, and Jerry Orbach. Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb; directed and choreographed by some guy named Bob Fosse…
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Apologies to @aaronjames.bsky.social, but the dog took this personally. Because the dog is, in fact, an asshole*
Cover of “Assholes: A Theory”, by Aaron James (paperback edition). A dog has gnawed off all four corners. * The asshole in question. A short-legged orange dog, sitting on his rump, in grass with scattered fall leaves. He’s part-dachshund, part-corgi. And in this picture he is giving extreme side-eye
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Sum...
This 1944 U.S. Army photo is captioned "Kay Summersby, an Irish girl from County Cork, is mighty proud of the company she keeps, for there is always one important Allied leader behind her when she takes the wheel. Attached to the American Forces as General Dwight Eisenhower's personal driver when he first came to England, she has been driving him ever since over roads in North Africa, Tunisia, Italy, and now England." Credit to a US military photographer. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kay_Summersby.jpg
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Soringsteen’s 12th studio album:
October 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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How can you deny the elegance of this creature?
Small orange dog sleeping on his back. (He’s part corgi, part dachshund, maybe some terrier… smaller than the purebred corgi down the block.) His legs are so short, and he’s so chubby, that they stick up in the air
July 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This actually sucks as an experience.
Panoramic view of the parking lot at the Buc-ee’s in Sevierville, Tennesseee. It’s cars, and far as the eye can see.
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Ewwwww, no.
Screenshot of a series of Bluesky posts. @ddelwar.bsky.social posted a weird picture of Andrew Cuomo and his family eating dinner. Then I posted to say, “It looks like they’re staging it in a hotel banquet room.” Finally, some account claiming to be Andrew Cuomo replied to me to say, “Thanks so much for the support and caring of my career I'm thrilled to connect with you here on my personal account.”
July 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Wonder what my local Barnes & Noble is trying to say?
Table of paperback novels, including 1984, Parable of the Sower, The Handmaid’s Tale, and others. The sign on the table reads “Dystopian Vibes”, and has a quote from The Handmaid’s Tale
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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No - we all need them in these days
Young (but quite large) cat on a bed. She’s colored like a dark Siamese—deep brown back, almost black head and legs—but her h and paws are white. Her belly is showing, her back toes are kind of curled up, and she’s curled one white paw over her face.
July 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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But there are options
Scene from Major League: the Cleveland Indians (historical use) are on an old Greyhound-type bus. Scene cuts to the interior, where Wesley Snipes and Charlie Sheen are trading comic book adaptations of famous works of literature
July 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Got a gift for the lawyer and baseball nerd who went to college in Baltimore (me). There’s a story here, about one of the most important antitrust cases in US history. 1/🧵
T-shirt (it’s navy, but looks black in this picture) with a logo for the Baltimore Terrapins Baseball Club, which played in the Federal League for two years in 1914 and 1915. The word “Terrapins” is in an orange script font, placed on a diagonal. The word “BALTIMORE”, in white all caps, arches above it. The space between “Baltimore” and “Terrapins is filled with a cartoon turtle (a diamondback terrapin) standing on its back legs, wearing a baseball cap, and holding an orange baseball bat.
June 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Junior associate at my desk
Cat asleep on desk. In this picture she looks like a seal-point Siamese (almost-black head, dark brown coat), because she has her white feet tucked up under her chin. The desk has a grey felt pad, and you can see about half of an Apple keyboard on top of the felt pad.
June 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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#NoKings - Knoxville, Tennessee
Panoramic view of #NoKings protesters in World’s Fair Park in Knoxville, before heading out to the street #NoKings protesters walking up to Western Avenue in Knoxville Line of #NoKings protesters headed from World’s Fair Park to Western Avenue in Knoxville #NoKings protesters on Western Avenue in Knoxville (looking across to L&N STEM Academy and corner of Western with Henley Street)
June 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Tornado warning. Hanging out in the basement bathroom with spouse, 20-yo, dog, and 5 cats. As you do
Face of a part-dachshund part corgi, laying down on the beige tile floor of our basement bathroom. You can also see my wife’s legs in her blue-and-white pajamas Picture of two cats (one tortoiseshell, one white with dark gray blotches). They’re both hunched on the beige tile floor of our basement bathroom, looking at the camera. Picture of two cats (one a snowshoe Siamese, the other white and gray). They’re on the beige tile floor of our basement bathroom, trying to figure out if they can sneak out under the door
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Which version? ‘Cause
Original Broadway cast album of the musical “Chicago”: Front cover, an illustration of very stylized and scantily clad ladies Original Broadway cast album of the musical “Chicago”: Back cover, show credits which read: “Robert Fryer and James Cresson present Gwen Verdon • Chita Rivera • Jerry Orbach in CHICAGO A Musical Vaudeville” I’m skipping some, but remember: Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse Music by John Kanter Lyrics by Fred Ebb Directed and Choreographed by Bob Fosse
May 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Timeline juxtaposition success
Timeline juxtaposition photo: Upper post js a New York Times story with the caption “Mark Carney Swept Canada, but There Will Be No Honeymoon.” (That’s been sarcastically reposted by Tom Nichols, who wrote “Mark Carney won a stunning victory. Here’s why that’s bad for Mark Carney”, in a faux-Times voice. Bottom post is just the Endless Screaming bot posting “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH”
April 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Yes, in contrast to London or Rome, which are famously free of lines to get into things. Or even to stand the square and look at things…
Colossal crowd standing on every available surface in front of the Trevi Fountain on a weekday afternoon in June 2023. Non-zero chance that I got a case of COVID from the people in this square.
April 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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A golden dog is sticking his head and back feet out from under a pile of black and dark blue clothes. His head is on a cream-colored throw pillow with a blue and tan windowpane pattern. All of this is on a dark blue-gray chair. His eyes are open and his ears are alert, because he’s just been told it’s time for bed (which means he gets a treat)
April 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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40% tariffs on Arrakis
April 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Also, “Oestericher” is almost certainly a mild Americanization of “Österreicher”, the German word for “Austrian”. And Austrians really ought to know better
Still from “The Sound of Music” with Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) tearing a Nazi party flag in half, shortly after Austria has become part of Nazi Germany
March 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Collection of Gibbles’s potato chips. Left to right: Bar-B-Q (yellow bag), Red Hot (red bag), Original (white bag), Sour Cream & Onion (green bag).
March 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This is what “respecting the office” earns you. Either “make good trouble” like John Lewis, or gtfo so someone can
March 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The real estate disposal list includes the entire Social Security Administration complex at Woodlawn, MD — which also includes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Property listed for disposal by GSA, filtered to show only the 14 separate properties in Woodlawn, Maryland (pic 1 of 2, showing first 8 entries and part of a 9th) Property listed for disposal by GSA, filtered to show only the 14 separate properties in Woodlawn, Maryland (pic 2 of 2, showing final 8 entries and part of a 9th)
March 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM