Raffi Melkonian

Let he who has not thought this cast the first stone.

Oh, maybe it’s different now. This was a long time ago.

I had so many arguments with French people about this. It’s hilarious.

At the time maybe 8. But yeah.

“No it’s true, they are loaded.”

“Ok but how are they getting loaded selling flour at a 1% margin?”

“The sandwiches! The lunch deals!”

“My dude the lunch deal is a soda, a full adult sandwich, and a cake for 6 euros”

“A scandal!!”

I’ve had so many lunches of a 1.2 euro baguette from the bakery and a “bad” supermarket Brie.

Though I will say regular French people think bakers are rich because they do all their trade in cash and thus allegedly cheat the rapacious French tax man.

I certainly would not offer him an American baguette

For those who didn’t read my blog 20 years ago 😂 I once spent a week with a family friend working in his Boulangerie in the Paris suburbs. A hard job (for him. I did squat). But rewarding. Not financially tho

The article says his baguette is aged for 14 hours before baking for peak flavor. That’s a pretty long fermentation for a baguette.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

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Very much.

I bet Sauer or Bondi told him no and he’s … seeking different advice

Yeah, there were negotiations in Switzerland all week.

Yes. What I was thinking of.

I can't say I love that our whole MO now is to perfiduously pretend to negotiate and then attack.

Babbages

Thank heavens!

Cancer is Dumb! Is better than MDA’s strikethrough of cancer slogan.

new cancer??? I'm sorry to hear that. Damnit.

This really important and interesting CA5 case comes to an end. SCOTUS to come?

President Camacho 2028!

If only he read the court rules he’d see rehearings are governed by Rule 44 of the SCOTUS rules.

Yes.

I feel like because of my job I’m pretty clear eyed about which side is “uphill” on a case, and the President is standing next to a directly vertical wall in my view.

Again, laugh/cry if I turn out to be wrong.

The chief’s opinion was pretty short. The rest was just a sort of beef Gorsuch has!

The VRA… has relevant enemies in a way birthright doesn’t. I think anyway.

Sorry this is not the most sophisticated analysis.

So the text, structure, and history are all on the same side. Countering that is…weird gibberish about post-bellum racists?

At the risk of having this skeet blopped on my head in a couple of months, the birthright citizenship case is an incredibly easy case decided by straightforward text, and that’s part of why these amicus briefs are all such dunks.