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My favorite part of E.T. is the part where the mom comes walking out of the closet.

Intelligence is knowing that Scrooge meets four ghosts in A Christmas Carol.

Wisdom is knowing that he meets five ghosts.

The second half of Weird Al Yankovic’s “Foil” is still the best surprise.

Freakier Friday is probably better than the original.

Weapons may have a perfect ending.

June Diane Raphael was in both.

This is the summer double-bill.

Marvel cover of the day

If you see this, post a Marvel cover that you love

Im not an eagle, but im a legal

75% participation rate on the Isle Delfino is actually pretty good. US is at around 62%.

@anyaustin.bsky.social Rewatching some of your videos, and I think you’re using “unemployment rate” when you mean “labor force participation rate.”

And then Teneille never took his last name. Could you imagine?

I guess it made less paperwork during the divorce.

Everybody remembers where and when they were when they learned the Captain’s real name.

But think about that moment when you realized his real name was “Dragon.”

What a gift that wouldn’t exist if you knew he was called Dragon from the start.

Is the Ambiguously Gay Duo Batman?

This is a strongly worded thread.

You’re right. Your eyes are different.

This is a #BluePrince stan account from now on

Hmmm. So, there’s a law that says influencing the IRS to act on individual taxpayers cannot be an official act of the President?

Picture of Nutmeg, the Pomeranian, as she lays on the back of the couch looking wistful.

Casual Fridays have gone too far

I was keeping an eye on it through my telescope and now I can’t see. Advice?

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

If we developed light-speed travel tomorrow, it would only take us 124 years to nuke it out of existence.

I’m a lot like Tinkerbell in the sense that once I was called a fairy.

For two years, I’ve been hearing about the gays trying to kill Jennifer Coolidge. Finally getting around to watching White Lotus Season 2.

Those gays?!?!?!

Are centenarians asking you this?!?!?

To be clear, I think this ruling was wrong and boneheaded for all the reasons noted in the dissent. But until Congress or the States fix the SCOTUS problem, we have to pretend that its rules matter.

I’m a lawyer. Those are distinctions with a clear difference.

It *may* be true that the difference may not matter for the plaintiffs who filed the case because it’s now too late to do anything about it, but going forward, attorneys will know not to abandon habeas claims after filing.

Basically.

An old standby of SCOTUS is if it can’t justify what it wants to do on merits, it justifies it via procedure.

In the original petitions, they filed habeas petitions as one cause of action. They abandoned that claim at some point during the case.

Defendants walked into a pizza place and ordered a hamburger (they challenged the order under the Administrative Procedures Act instead of by habeas). “Sir, this is a pizza place. If you want a hamburger, you have to go to a hamburger place.”

Basically, they didn’t file the right kind of claim.

That’s not what it said. It said, “The way to do this is through habeas, not the Administrative Procedures Act.”

I still prefer the Zuton’s version of Valerie.