Robbie Ottley

Kowloon Walled City In My Backyard and sodas at restaurants cost a quarter.

I paid FIVE DOLLARS for ONE Diet Coke at a restaurant near Gallery Place yesterday, and I don’t want to get too political but this is the fault of NIMBYs.

It occurs to me that Trump is attending the Super Bowl and Kendrick Lamar, likely the greatest diss track artist in history at the peak of his powers, is performing at halftime… and does Trump really want to expose himself to that risk?

Mariann Budde has set a high bar but Kendrick might clear it.

The people who planted the mines in Minesweeper didn’t do a great job. They shouldn’t have put those numbers down too.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Pascrell brought humility to our politics. We miss them | Opinion President Jimmy Carter and Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. exuded a powerful character and a commitment to public virtue. Their example will be missed.

I remain grateful to @northjerseynews.bsky.social for letting me write earlier this month about Jimmy Carter and my former boss, Bill Pascrell, after both men died last year. www.northjersey.com/story/opinio...

Also, hopefully soon Professor Kries and I can discuss actually important issues, like how unusually good the Georgia men’s basketball team is this year, go very Dawgs.

So yeah, maybe the law journal-industrial complex needs to be run by professional staff starting immediately.

It also applies to the same sort of article submitted by a professor, when 2L editors aren’t sophisticated enough to know they’re poorly reasoned. And those articles then become some of the strongest persuasive authority out there.

Extraordinarily small potatoes! But the same principle applies all the way up to poorly reasoned (and unsigned?!) Harvard Law Review student notes promoting fringe right-wing legal theories.

I’m grateful he caught that—the 2Ls cite checking the piece and the 3Ls doing final edits (of course!) did not have sufficient tax expertise to be able to correct that error. Nor did they have sufficient time to run the math on it and cross check it against relevant statutory authority and caselaw.

A relevant anecdote 🧵: in an early draft of my Note published in the Georgia Law Review last year, I had asserted that a hypothetical transaction was subject to income tax at a top 37% rate. My Note advisor pointed out that the transaction should properly be subject to the gift tax at a 40% rate.

Aww 😊 Go LawDawgs all around

Great to see, Professor Kreis! And loved seeing @sonjawest.bsky.social on this. That’s *my* ConLaw 2 professor 🥹

Back in November, I wrote that Georgia should adopt a red-flag law to advance gun safety after last fall's shooting at Apalachee High School. Check it out at the Georgia Law Review. georgialawreview.org/article/1260...

Morse Code

To kick off Bluesky, I'm thinking about a classic @xkcd.com comic. For what it's worth, the French Navy seems to have an account on here.

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