Adam Bonin

But will it roll on Shabbas?

I'd like to bump up this negative review by 1/8 star if what I took to be an intentional visual reference to Charlie Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) was indeed intentional, not accidental.

But WICKED 2 not a good movie.

The Day L.B.J. Took Charge From 2012, Robert A. Caro on John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and the first time anyone ever called Lyndon Johnson “Mr. President.”

If you've never read it—and even if you have—today is a fine day to read the chapter from Robert Caro's THE PASSAGE OF POWER which tells the story of Nov. 22, 1963, from LBJ's perspective.

“He’s gone,” Ken O’Donnell said. And “right then,” Homer Thornberry later said of Johnson, “he took charge.”

Correction: he didn't lie about it. His staff had no idea where he was, so they made the hiking claim.

I don't think you could have injected fun into this universe after having made clear with this universe was now premised on.

Tell Jonathan Richman. Or the Bee Gees.

Went to Cherry Hill today. So disappointed. And my wife, who is a *big* fan of the musical, was crushed.

Take Me Home, Country Roads - West Virginia University Athletics Bill Danoff, pictured here to the left with his former wife Taffy Nivert and John Denver, perform "Take Me Home, Country Roads" at the official ded...

TIL, and God bless @learnedleague.com participants for this nugget, that the guy who wrote John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" didn't really understand the geography, because the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River are really in western Virginia, and only barely part of West Virginia.

it's the first business day after she qualifies for her five-year pension.

I want them to be able to staff up enough to free you sufficiently to also run Young Philly Politics again.

it is SUCH a great show.

One of my best decisions was committing a few years ago to a monthly contribution to @pubintlawctr.bsky.social, which does superior impact litigation in Pennsylvania on the fights which matter. Join me: pubintlaw.org/donate/

MTG's statement is basically, I'm the real MAGA; Trump and the bipartisan DC Establishment are covering up Epstein's pals and selling you out to foreign countries, Big Pharma, Big Tech and others. She all but says that she'll lead a realer populist movement (for President?) when the country's ready.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement says she will resign on January 5, 2026. x.com/mtgreenee/st...

Donald Trump looking the happiest I’ve ever seen him talking to Mamdani, with a Reagan portrait hanging in the wall behind them

The classic distracted boyfriend meme

help

“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”

A ★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025) From the moment it was announced that they'd be splitting WICKED into two films, we all wondered how the second half could be as good as the first. First half has almost all the great songs, and so mu...

Lordy, I did not care for WICKED: FOR GOOD. (And I loved Part 1!) Most of it stems from the doomed choice to split the musical into two parts, but there are particular differences from the musical (in particular, the repeated visualizations of Dorothy Gale) which made this an unpleasant viewing.

per Google Maps, St Joe/Drexel is 4.2 miles arena to arena, Temple/LaSalle 4.8.

Those are almost 5 miles apart. Drexel is closer to St. Joe's than Temple is to LaSalle.

We are only hours away from tipoff in the shortest road trip in all of D1 men's basketball. 🔴🔵🐉🏀

The Executive Branch is the only place in America where you can work for Donald Trump and have a decent chance at being paid on time for your work (except for shutdowns).

I'd rather go with the alternate history that Cooper's first acting role could have been as Scott Scanlon on 90210.

Bernstein was alive for the first two episodes of 90210 and the first three of Cop Rock, but he did not make it until 1994 for Friends.

This Court further lamented the problems attendant to extending a seller’s disclosure duty beyond the limited topics concerning “structural matters, legal impairments, and hazardous materials” mandated by our General Assembly: First, how recent must the murder be that the seller must inform the buyer? What if the murder happened 100 years ago? What if numerous owners have lived in the house in the interim? In fact, the buyer here is one buyer removed from the murder/suicide at issue. This raises another concern. This sort of psychological damage to a house will obviously decrease over time as the memory of the murder recedes from public knowledge. Requiring a seller to reveal this information may force the seller to sell the house under market value and allow the buyer to realize a windfall when the house is resold [ten] years later and memories have

faded. The passage of time has no similar curative effect on structural damage, legal impairments, or hazardous materials. Second, how can a monetary value possibly be assigned to the psychological damage to a house caused by a murder? The psychological effect will vary greatly from person to person. There are persons for whom no amount of money would induce them to live in such a house, while others may not care at all, or even find it adventurous. Further, as noted, the monetary value of such a psychological defect will dissipate with the passage of time as the memory of the murder recedes. Third, is this disclosure limited to murder, or must other crimes be revealed also? A buyer might want to know that a house has been burgled five times in the last year because that might indicate that the neighborhood is dangerous. What about crimes that did not occur on the property itself? Suppose there had been a number of shootings in the neighborhood. Further, a buyer might want to know that a child molester lived in the neighborhood. The fact that a murder once occurred in a house falls into that category of homebuyer concerns best left to caveat emptor. If psychological defects must be disclosed then we are not far from requiring sellers to reveal that a next-door neighbor is loud and obnoxious, or on some days you can smell a nearby sewage plant, or that the house was built on an old Indian burial ground. Indeed, one could identify numerous psychological problems with any house. Sellers should only be required to reveal material defects with the actual physical structure of the house, with legal impairments on the property, and with hazardous materials located there. To allow consideration of possible psychological defects opens a myriad of disclosures that sellers will need to reveal, and starts a descent down a very slippery slope. Id. at 139-40 (cleaned up). We concluded that “a massive expansion” of obligatory disclosures to require a seller “to warn n…

Court says it doesn't matter that the sellers covered tiles with a rug during sale process, and relies on a 2012 case in which sellers failed to disclose that the year before, a highly publicized murder-suicide had taken place in the home they were selling. It's buyers' obligation to research. 2/2

In each scenario, the existence, and degree, of the defect is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly, a significant portion of homebuyers would eschew a house with a crude mosaic of Nazi iconography in its basement. Yet there is, sadly but undeniably, a segment of the population who would deem it an asset to the property. Further, even among the majority of prospective buyers who would not welcome having hate symbols adorning their basement floor, the degree to which the images impacted the value of the property would inevitably vary from person to person. It is for these reasons that our Supreme Court has insisted that condition of the property constituting a material defect must be one that not only substantially impacts the value of the real estate, but lends itself to recognition and quantification by objective standards. Otherwise, the law “would be impossible to apply with consistency and would place an unmanageable burden on sellers, resulting in disclosures of tangential issues that threaten to bury the pertinent information that disclosures are intended to convey.”6 Milliken II, 103 A.3d at 810

A basement that floods, a roof that leaks, beams that were damaged by termites, an asbestos-tile kitchen floor: these are the conditions our legislature requires sellers to disclose if they are known. For more than ten years, our General Assembly has been aware that this Court and our High Court have taken the position that expansion of the definition of a material defect beyond these types of problems outlined in § 7304(b) of RESDL must come from that body, not from the courts. Yet no enactment has altered that definition for purposes of failure-to-disclose claims for violation of RESDL, fraud, or misrepresentation. We are not dismissive of the Wentworths’ outrage, nor their concern that the existence of the images could taint them as Nazi supporters. With this lawsuit, however, they have made a public record to counter any supposition in that regard. Further, as the trial court observed, with pains not to minimize the enormity of the situation, the Wentworths can prevent people who come into the home from viewing the symbols by covering them or painting over them. See Trial Court Opinion, 1/13/25, at 8.

PA Superior Ct: "Is having a swastika and Nazi eagle tiles in the basement under the rug a 'material defect' which a homeseller must disclose?"

Answer: no, only objective, structural defects matter. This, you could find and can fix. Subjective tests: too messy. 1/2
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YouTube video by Jimmy Awards 2025 Jimmy Awards: Broadway Medley #5

(What are the Jimmy Awards, you may ask? Annual awards for the best high school musical theatre talent. A week-long bootcamp then a showcase Broadway performance. Three of the night's eight finalists in 2025 are in this medley, and that you may not be able to tell which they are is the point.) 2/2

Concord Theatricals Secures HAMILTON Global Licensing Rights; Teen Edition Expected in 2028 Concord Theatricals will take on exclusive worldwide secondary stage licensing rights for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HAMILTON, expanding the reach of the landmark musical to theaters around the globe.

So the 2029 Jimmy Awards are going to be two straight hours of "Wait For It" and "Satisfied," basically? #nicheposting 1/2

I do not think this is an easy case, and I don't know what the legislative fix would read like.

Unlike his bandmates, Wyclef Jean has remained free of legal issues.

straw donor scheme involving Malaysian businessman who funded Wolf of Wall Street, ironically.