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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

happy 4th, everybody

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips.

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

been thinking a lot about Dworkinian interpretive moves and the notion of ambiguity, though. might be an article there. maybe not. certainly not while I’m working for the Least Dangerous Branch

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

We here at the Timorous offices have thought long and hard about the contentious judicial decisions of the day and remain committed to airing our conclusions in private only

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

for ethical reasons, the Home Office takes no views on contentious legal matters. it does have strong opinions in favor of looking at this silly cat’s assorted beans

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 83 authorizes district courts to craft their own rules as long as those rules don’t violate another law. That applies here. There’s no reason a judge can’t say “this order will go into effect in 21 days”, this rule just does that wholesale & not retail

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

I went to the NSO for a program that included this spectacular Saariaho orchestral suite. Me and my friends and my s/o were way into it, even those among us without classical training, and it made me so mad that the audience was largely unengaged. PHILISTINES, MOZART-BRAINED PHILISTINES

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

It makes me so very happy to see orchestras with “big ears” — it was one of the best parts of living in NY, and its absence was one of the worst parts of living in Philly

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 03:43 UTC

god damn that’s a sexy piece of music. if I weren’t on the opposite coast, I swear to high heaven I’d be there. I hope @helltweet himself shows

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 03:17 UTC

i worked from home today and Dima helped. 10/10 best way to work imo

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 03:16 UTC

Have you seen him? now you have

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

I adore Meistersinger but it is a VERY problematic fave, if you stage it and play the plot straight you end up doing unironic proto-fascism in Act 3

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

the really surprising thing is that you kind of can, if you know what to listen for (see, e.g., Beckmesser and Alberich) like Beckmesser is W’s revenge on all his haters, esp. Eduard Hanslick, but if you know what W thought about “Jewish music” and then listen to Meistersinger, oh man oh boy

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

I’m usually of the view that it’s better n not to dunk on counsel in opinions. But this opinion is measured in tone and doesn’t heap scorn on the appellate counsel who picked the bad font. it is crotchety but not ill-humored. so i forgive

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

the opinion is seven pages long and every sentence is a gem

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 21:41 UTC

I’m in love. This is an unheard-of level of typography pettiness. insert easterbrook laser eyes jpeg

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

anybody who cares about LSAT scores after law school starts is an actual psycho

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

yes, there’s a very fun intersection with /Chiafalo/ isn’t there if push came to shove I’d say the distinction’s colorable enough to avoid getting Rule 11’d, even if probably not strong enough to succeed

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

on a related note I have an Idea for a civ pro article that I will be ruminating on for the near future. i will chew the idea’s cud and digest it thoroughly

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

have obtained reputation in chambers as Civil Procedure Knower. how to exploit this

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

I have actual insights here but the most important one is “don’t do it unless you genuinely want to be a lawyer” it can be a good and fun job if you have a Certain Kind of Brain

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

what if I said “do it for the bit”

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 22:17 UTC

i of course subscribe to only the coolest and most respectable form of non-vulgar realism (enlightened Ronald Dworkin thought)

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

there is a sort of vulgar realism that many people harbor which stems from a ham-headed unwillingness to try to understand how certain institutions work

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

wait halt the presses was this Professor Abraham? I heard the rumors when I was in law school but I always thought it was an urban legend

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

Jurisprudential disagreement is like that! (In the “it would take a whole book to explain why this is Not Even Wrong” sense)

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 23:03 UTC

…of law, a conception that he disagrees with. look the Dworkin secondary lit is legion, who knows what the guy was on, but you catch my drift. saying that RD was Just Wrong About Law kinda assumes the jurisprudential conclusion, doesn’t it?

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

I think that RD might say that there is really no such thing as law _in se_. He kinda gets into this in the late work. Part of his core thesis as I read it is that law can’t be divorced from all that other stuff. He’s reluctant to defend “law as law” because he sees that as a competing conception…

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I suppose you have more formalist commitments than I do. dunno. I don’t think that this line of questioning rejects “law” so much as it proves incompatible with your conception of “law”, perhaps?

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 22:55 UTC

I think this might be a good time to break out one of my favorite spicy takes, which is that Dworkin was a Legal Realist of the old school. All I’m saying is that I don’t think that the question of the “unconstitutional constitutional amendment” is a trivial one, see the “basic structure” doctrine

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

reject his teachings at your peril

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 01:26 UTC

tried to explain recent Trust & Safety drama on this website to my s/o (ON THEIR REQUEST) and felt myself losing my mind almost in real time. this place has not only the juice, it has true and genuine Hellsite Potential

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 22:04 UTC

edward = box boy confirmed (heartening, as dmitry shows no interest in box except as chew toy)

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

juristocracy runs deep, I guess, and so does a vulgar interpretation of the Holmesian bad man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Well-Pleaded Complaints @timorous.cishet.net [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 02:02 UTC

it really messes with Lawyer Brain when you insist on the obviously true assertion that a law does not cease to bind if a judge cannot enforce it

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