Spotify must have a trash ad algorithm because I just got a tequila ad followed by a country music ad on the Super Simple Songs channel.

I recently published an essay in Law360 ethics in appellate prosecution. With two recent cases, we examine how the prosecutor's special duty to justice demands a different approach to appellate work than other lawyers take and sometimes requires concession.

www.law360.com/articles/236...

The New Zealand Parliament maintains a list of "unparliamentary language" that are disallowed in debate, and I think it's about to be my go-to source of creative insults next time I need to call someone a "fungus farmer."
www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and...

I recently had the privilege to write a post on the @wolterskluwer.com Arbitration Blog with @gjgarciasanchez.bsky.social, previewing our upcoming article. A hundred years from the FAA, now's a great time to look back on how we got to now.

arbitrationblog.kluwerarbitration.com/2025/06/28/a...

I saw a Reel where somebody was explaining how to jump start a car with a chain saw and had to think to myself, "why do you think that I don't have jumper cables but DO have a chain saw?"

I tried to look up the classic Billy and Mandy episode where Mandy misleads Billy into believing that the opposite of cinnamon is frogs and Google AI tried to convince me that the opposite of cinnamon really is frogs.

Hearing "per stirpes" spoken for the first time and realizing that it's pronounced "stir-pees" has really thrown me for a loop.

“The flights … will feature lie-flat seats, an open bar”—that seems like a recipe for disaster.

www.kxan.com/news/pan-am-...

I feel like every time someone talks about creating an “everything app” you pretty quickly realize that they’re just proposing to recreate WeChat.

I did a project about this issue years ago and something I still remember was not just how much money was made off athletes, but the danger involved. That they put themselves through such strain and risk of life-altering injury to benefit another really stuck with me. I’ll cheer this outcome.

Over on the other app I tried to use Grok to ask about a particular Twitter feature, because if nothing else that’s what it should be good at. Alas…

One of the quirks of the Texas judiciary is that are our highest criminal court, has "judges." Meanwhile, our intermediate appellate courts have "justices." I'm not aware of other state claiming the topsy-turvy result of judges reviewing justices, and it's incredibly unintuitive.

Restaurant ideas:

A Vietnamese-burger fusion restaurant called Pho-ddruckers

A sandwich and margarita restaurant called SubLime

An ice cream and coffee shop called Cool Beans

I recently sent the final draft of my newest article to the editors of the Gonzaga Law Review who will be publishing it this fall. It offers a solution to the questions left open in a recent landmark Title VII case. I look forward to seeing it in print!

I've been lightly interested in for years in how people talk about IQ as if it's a well-established, immutable scientific fact. The truth is it's often arbitrary and varies widely from test to test. Really, our fixation with IQ only reveals our brains' need for categorization.

I just found out that there’s a scam that’s managed to contact every adult in Canada. On the one hand, I could see that as a dystopian indictment of the consequences of the internet. But as an optimist, I choose to respect the hustle.

Reading this article when I *just* learned how to use semicolons properly feels like sitting down at the barber and asking for this haircut.