Alan Neff
@alanneff
Law, current events, and/or humor. Lapsed litigator. Tiresome empiricist. Not terminally online, but asymptotically approaching it. BLUESKY user #: 1,492,816. He/him. My recent writing can be found here:
SR: I don't know if you've seen this from the Center For Politics, but you might find it intriguing and something you want to share widely. Link: mailchi.mp/virginia/not...
Apparently I've been misreading your work (and that of, e.g., @hcrichardson.bsky.social). I must thank this person for her trenchant observation below, if I'm ever at The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies.
Legacy Media Headline Incompetence, Episode # I've lost count. Also, I'm not a combat or foreign-policy expert, so I hope someone who is can explain this to me: If two countries are shooting at each other, where is their "truce"?
Woo hoo! The new novel from the post-Expanse trilogy by the Corey Duo. PSA: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, A CORNERSTONE OF DEMOCRACY.
Many of us complain about @nytimes.com headlines that dilute/obscure/contradict the hard-news content of stories. Here, however, is a headline that efficiently delivered to me the signal I needed to know that I will *NEVER* read this story. CC: @froomkin.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social
I'd think it notably disquieting for the AUSA (who's been in that office for 17 years, according to his LinkedIn page) that the judge included this 'graph in his order to show cause:
Is another consequence of Trump's Liberation Day liberating companies from profitability?
From @pkrugman.bsky.social today. Source: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/renewable-... 💯x♾️
This is heartwarming news. (Source: phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/patriot-mo...)
May the gods of the multiverses bless "Joy of Cooking." (2019 Ed., page 269.)
A side note on Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash (a musically gifted and highly photogenic couple): Nash should have realized their relationship had an end-date because Mitchell was the author of "Cactus Tree," a great song with this cautionary verse:
Today's terror-report from Chicago, America's Insurrection Epicenter (Trump Organization's TM ®️ pending): Kite surfers above Montrose Beach. The horror. The horror...
Like most other voter-cohorts, young ♂️s have swung to net disapproval of Trump. Why didn't anyone tell them before the election that 🍊 would hurt their lives and prospects? Oh, wait. [Closes computer, bangs head.] Links to original data here: youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/the-first-...
1. Deregulate the banks. (Source: www.reuters.com/business/fin... 2. Re-popularize adjustable-rate mortgages. 3. MAKE AMERICA 2008 AGAIN! Cc: @aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
Got my measles re-vaccine yesterday. Zero side-effects, so far as I can tell. I did that because a recent article said that people vaccinated w/ dead-virus vaccine should re-up now, because the current vaccine uses live virus and is more effective. Source: www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...
As Judge Wilkinson put it yesterday in his opinion in the Abrego-Garcia case for a unanimous panel of the 4th Circuit:
Chicago, right now, in the Loop, next to Picasso's horse, or whatever it is.