I hope John Roberts can't watch the NFL playoff games today because he has explosive diarrhea.
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@msbellows Jiminy! How did I miss all of these??
@david Easy answer: you're a slacker! (Said by a fellow slacker, so don't worry, I'm not judging you.)
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@david Easy answer: you're a slacker! (Said by a fellow slacker, so don't worry, I'm not judging you.)
@msbellows I'm definitely a slacker. Always was…
School: ”We feel you are an underachiever despite your high IQ.”
Me: “Whatever.”
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@msbellows I'm definitely a slacker. Always was…
School: ”We feel you are an underachiever despite your high IQ.”
Me: “Whatever.”
@david Also, it's probably a "tell" that I'm defining "slacker" as "someone who doesn't spend enough time on Mastodon to catch every single one of my posts in real time."
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You might enjoy a work of satire I wrote in 2024, following Trump's reelection.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2024/11/evil-sorcerers-need-to-rediscover-art.html
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@david Also, it's probably a "tell" that I'm defining "slacker" as "someone who doesn't spend enough time on Mastodon to catch every single one of my posts in real time."
@msbellows today was an exception as prior, I've been working but finished it all yesterday. Well at least until next week.
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@sarae Tell me more about the smell. (And are there blackberries in D.C.?)
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@sarae Is... is it under the floorboards?
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@sarae Please don't say it also bubbles up from the Jacuzzi jets.
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@sarae Who doesn't, at least indirectly?
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@sarae
You are, in other words, cursing him with the mystery smell in @douglasvb's house, but worse.
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@sarae
You are, in other words, cursing him with the mystery smell in @douglasvb's house, but worse.
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I hope John Roberts orders Chinese for lunch and it comes with those chopsticks that are rectangular in cross-section instead of round and when he separates them it splinters just a little and he gets a tiny splinter in the ball of his index finger and it's one of those splinters that's set so deeply there's only a tiny little nub sticking out that's not enough to grab with tweezers but every time he picks up a pen or taps a keyboard it jiggles it and hurts annoyingly.
I hope John Roberts goes to see "Inherit The Wind" at the Fichandler Stage in D.C. tonight and feels out of touch with the rest of the audience because why would anyone root for the criminal teaching evolution to innocent children, and then on the drive home he praises the righteous lawyer fighting to keep God's Word in the public schools and his wife responds by asking contemptuously how she ever could have married such an asshole and it makes him feel really confused and lonely and sad.
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I hope John Roberts goes to see "Inherit The Wind" at the Fichandler Stage in D.C. tonight and feels out of touch with the rest of the audience because why would anyone root for the criminal teaching evolution to innocent children, and then on the drive home he praises the righteous lawyer fighting to keep God's Word in the public schools and his wife responds by asking contemptuously how she ever could have married such an asshole and it makes him feel really confused and lonely and sad.
@msbellows
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maybe in his shadow conscience?@goatrodeo I used to think he had one.
I was a sweet summer child back then.
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I hope John Roberts goes to see "Inherit The Wind" at the Fichandler Stage in D.C. tonight and feels out of touch with the rest of the audience because why would anyone root for the criminal teaching evolution to innocent children, and then on the drive home he praises the righteous lawyer fighting to keep God's Word in the public schools and his wife responds by asking contemptuously how she ever could have married such an asshole and it makes him feel really confused and lonely and sad.
I hope John Roberts gets a flat tire today when he's already running late.
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I hope John Roberts' law clerks all were sick today so he had to actually do his own legal research and he ended up wandering angrily around the Supreme Court law library stacking heavy volumes of West's case law on tables and wondering why the hell the Shephards annual, monthly, and weekly pocket parts haven't been kept up to date. #law
@msbellows I would think that online versions of pocket parts and Shepards would have long ago replaced the paper versions.
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I hope John Roberts picks up a can of leftover Coke he finds on the counter and accidentally swallows a giant dead housefly.
@msbellows With ol' Clarance T wandering around that thing on the coke can might be a pubic hair left to "entice" an intern.
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@msbellows I would think that online versions of pocket parts and Shepards would have long ago replaced the paper versions.
@karlauerbach Yes, but old lawyers who've had clerks and research assistants for decades don't necessarily know that, which is why I portray him as puzzled.
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(Digression: obscene decisions like this are why, in this thread, I'm making it a practice to curse U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts every single day: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-students-california-cca311ae39d267f31c1392a0bcf780cd
I've been a lawyer for nearly four decades. I've been PROUD to be a lawyer! On the day I graduated from law school I was privileged to shake hands with our commencement speaker, the outstanding liberal justice William F. Brennan. Lawyers and jurists like Brennan have been responsible for much of the social progress America slowly made through most of the 20th century, and I foolishly thought that that progress would mostly continue.
John Roberts represents the betrayal of that proud tradition. More broadly, John Roberts represents everything that is wrong with privilege and whiteness and toxic maleness and greed. So yes, I curse John Roberts, in small ways and large, every single fucking day. Because he has betrayed a noble calling, and the instant there's someone in the Oval Office who won't make Eileen Cannon chief justice, my final curse will be a general, passive wish for John Roberts to die painfully and slowly (but not too slowly).
But until then I curse him creatively, trying to bring a little humor to my rage.)
@msbellows Take a glance at my short (809 words) piece "I will not be joining the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Bar"
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@955_36 @msbellows @grammasaurus David Chaum has had some really interesting proposals on how voters can do vote tracking without giving away data that can be used by third parties (including the county clerks) to match ballots to voters (or vice versa.)
It's been nearly two decades since I worked with him on this stuff, so I don't dare to try to recite any of his ideas here.
The wikipedia link below is probably a better place to start looking for his many interesting ideas.
