All in all in, this public defender would consider 12 monkeys flipping coins worth a try.

In my youth, TV was educational. It no longer is. Take Breaking Bad—a charcter study perfectly done—great scripts, great acting, the very exemplum of gripping—but after 5 seasons of who knows how many episodes, me ever on the edge of my chair—I wasn’t taught how to cook meth! Would that be illegal somehow? I should…

An acquaintance of mine, also of the criminal defense bar, is a former prosecutor who once told me, “If a case is charged correctly, the State should never lose.”

Fun Fact O’ The Day: in elementary symbolic logic, “and” and “but,” as logical operators, have the same effect.

It was Mark Twain who contrasted “professing Christians” with “professional Christians.”

I used to do some family law but after I year I swore off on it, and since then practiced criminal law exclusively.

In my state (WA), lie detector test results are inadmissible in a trial.

I presume what he’s *trying* to sell is some sort of bootstrap argument.

The calculus here is so very simple.

Ohm / ohm on the range

Some random facts: 1. 53% of white women voted trump 2. a trump-voting household’s median income was significantly higher than that of Clinton’s 3. evangelicals voted for trump en masse. None of these are indicators that the election was swung by disaffected, economically dispossessed white folk.

If you are a white person of certain experiences (such as, oh, being homeless for a time, dealing drugs for a time, being in construction for a long time, being a criminal defense lawyer for a long time), 1, 6, 8, 9, and 10 can be scary for you as well.

I suggest that it might instructive if everyone took take this test (link below).

Pleasure’s mine. And best wishes for your speedy recovery.

On which subjects is he presumed to be conversant? The three-body problem? DNA methylation? His love of caramels?

I’ve got stuff I should be doing this morning so please don’t seduce my attention with such sweet sweet fantasies...

I respectfully disagree. Sessions is the worst of them all, Trump included. Why? Because Trump is, intellectually, morally and ethically speaking, a nullity. The oath he took to uphold the Constitution is like me swearing to uphold the Voynich manuscript. Miller is the product of a life spent being scorned by…

I am re-posting this—not for its literary value, but because although I have hated in my life, and never without reason, I’ve never done so 24/7/365. It’s corrosive, exhausting, and if I don’t express this hatred now and again, I’m gonna wind up in Cancer Gulch (tip o’ the hat to Norman Mailer) without hands to scale…

Surely everyone remembers James Thurber’s short story, “The Greatest Man in the World.”

crim def lawyer here: when clients are sentenced, the first thing they want to know is when they will be leaving jail for prison. Prison, you see, is ever so much nicer than jail. In jail, you just lie around all day, maybe an hour in the yard, if lucky you can make trustee and cut up veggies in the kitchen. No point…