Corey Rayburn Yung

During the Satanic music panic, MLWTTKK leaned in by making their songs as panic-worthy as possible. I'm guessing I was one of only a handful of people that attended their concerts completely sober. I can't believe they are still (alive and) touring.

YouTube video by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Topic A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid & Flowers Mix)

Today's underrated song won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it remains one of my favorites from my college days. There's a lot of shouting, madness, and drugs. But, it just comes together so well: "Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid & Flowers Mix)" by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.

Taft's [Very Awesome] Mustache

It me. I'm happy to announce that my article "Systems of Law: Foundations" will be published in the Boston University Law Review. I divided the SSRN draft into 3 articles. But the core of the posted article will be in the first piece in my planned trilogy. I'll post a new draft in the coming weeks.

Has anyone, in the entire history of language, previously described "punching them while they are down" as a good thing?

Trump administration lawyers are quite adept at dusting off old awful arguments that people had forgetten about. It's a skill, I guess.

Things can't possibly get any stupide ... Wait, I'm getting an update ...

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

She needs to get angrier (ala Kavanaugh) and shout "fake news" to maintain Trump's support. He's probably fuming at how meek she is being.

Unitary Executive Theory includes the states as well.

That actually worked. SCOTUS didn't do anything awful. Henceforth, SCOTUS is only allowed to release opinions when I teach Criminal Law.

US v. The World seems ... unwise

Gotta go teach Criminal Law. But I'm sure SCOTUS won't do anything awful while I'm in class ...

There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

The Justice Department has withheld thousands of documents from the Epstein files, including FBI documents that detailed a woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump, according to a review by WSJ. on.wsj.com/4crnNVt

And it was Alito.

"And one of the Justices came up to me and he said, 'Sir,' and with tears in his eyes, he said, 'no one has ever won tariffs like you.' He said, 'no one.' Can you believe it. A big man, and he said, 'Sir, I want to kiss you.'"

Me, and every other college debater, in 1995-1996: "Iran will shut the down the Strait of Hormuz, causing oil shocks, and escalating to global war."
Trump Administration, 2026: "The Strait of What-Now?"

YouTube video by robcantor "Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor

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Rob Cantor warned everyone, but no one listened. Actual human cannibal.

Strait of Hormuz - Wikipedia

The US even ran its most expensive wargame in history (cost: $250 million) around this very scenario. Firing all the experts and letting Pete Hegseth play out his General Jack Ripper fantasies was a horrible mistake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_...

That Iran would shutdown the Strait of Hormuz was the most foreseeable, obvious consequence of an attack that has been recognized by warplanners and foreign policy experts for at 40 years. And, yet, the Trump administration did not forsee or plan for it.

I'd like to purchase some political risk insurance in case my country elects idiots to run the government.

(Also, if someone ever taught "Sex Crimes" at a US law school before me, please let me know. I have been unable to find a record of a course named as such or otherwise focused on the subject matter. But I'd like to know of any history, if it exists)

As the first law prof in the US to teach a course called "Sex Crimes" (way back in 2009), I believe that this shirt is lawfully mine. Someone please send it to me ASAP.

I wish Trump would just go back to applying tariffs to penguin island and leave real countries alone.

I just can't tell what's a throwaway line, what's a joke, and what's a policy announcement these days.

Is the President serious about an embargo on Spain?

From the piece: "Take the criminal justice system. Abolitionism in criminal law is a cause that rightly demands serious attention. The enduring pain inflicted by mass incarceration and racial disparities in policing cannot be dismissed with facile appeals to “deterrence” or “efficiency.” Yet in the hands of a critique that privileges sweeping proclamations over rigorous inquiry, even abolitionism becomes another rhetorical instrument—and a powerless one at that. For the abolitionist, it is not enough to highlight the brutality of prisons or the failures of policing; one must frame all existing approaches as irredeemably tainted.12 Law and economics, in this caricature, is portrayed as a handmaiden of punitive excess, as though the entire discipline were a codification of oppression. Gone is any recognition that serious economic analysis grapples with the complexities of resource allocation, incentives, and human behaviors that shape real outcomes on the ground."

I know it's just a symposium piece, but that's just a series of rants. Since there is no cite, do you know what this is referencing? I hadn't seen L&E (which had very limited influence on criminal law scholarship) referenced as the "handmaiden of punitive excess" by abolitionists.

After calling for a founders turd scale yesterday and rating humilitation using an ass-cheek metric today, I might need to stop talking about butts for a while.

This is twice as humilating as emergency ass surgery, rating a solid 4 cheeks on the universal humiliation scale.

If I read this correctly, DOJ waited until just before its brief was due to ask to dismiss, then about-faced the next day and is going to try to use that to get an extension on its brief.

There are less humiliating ways to get an extension on your brief, like saying you needed emergency ass surgery