James Fallows Tierney

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

When I get the Chicago Tribune’s Daywatch newsletter by email I start hearing the Baywatch theme song

OK, I've seen enough.

I suggest that anyone interested in the sharp comments I've had about some of the anti-LPE movement pieces in the UChicago LR to simply read and compare the pieces by LPE scholars to those of their critics. It's astonishing.

Go here: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

The anti LPE pieces are so laughably bad that you have to wonder whether the editors were secretly stacking the deck against the L&E position.

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

wait wait WHAT? Apparently a "medical journal" in canada has been publishing fictionalized case reports for decades without indicating to its readers that they were fictionalized... retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Some even have allergies.

Do none of you typeset your briefs in LaTeX?

*ducks*

Glad it works for you because phew the manual periods would wreck me

Your lawyering work, essential as it is, is sometimes inscrutable

Can you say why you think this is a good use of a prediction market when vote counts aren’t yet available? Isn’t it betting based on vibes?

My wife and kids have more immediate ancestry by descent so they go first.

Again, looking forward to being part of a new diaspora

Love this FT graphic on Strait of Hormuz flow.

(Note: likely understates flow because this will not capture tankers who are making the run with their transponders turned off—and, tbh, if I was making the run I wouldn't want my transponder on)

I dictate email responses while driving, walking to the train, walking the dog, etc.

Would you believe if I told you the dean’s email job was maybe even worse?

incredible, he did the joke

Every community has its horrors, unfortunately. I grew up in Boston, which among other things did not have a more enlightened history of harbor prison camps

tired: genetic data being sold or weaponized
wired: genetic data giving you new citizenship data

Relevant anchor baby ancestors are from Nova Scotia 👀

Thank god for expansive visions of birthright citizenship, eh?

No joke, this is how years of Ancestry.com memberships are going to pay off for my family.

As much as I was looking forward to seeing Elizabeth Prelogar, Don Verrilli, and Paul Clement take turns dunking on these orders in front of a D.C. Circuit panel, this is good news.

Regulatory Notice 26-06 | FINRA.org Arbitration is an important means for resolving disputes involving customers, FINRA member firms and their associated persons. FINRA’s Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) arbitration forum provides a fa...

What a day for FINRA to drop a new concept release on arbitration reform www.finra.org/rules-guidan...

A map showing the increase in units allowed by right for Chicago parcels if HB 5626 passes. The map shows Chicago with parcels colored blue (1 unit increase), green (2-3 units), orange (4-5 units), and red (6-7 units). Many parcels are also uncolored, indicating no increase in the units allowed. Chicago's community area boundaries are also shown.

In the gov's State of the State speech, he championed a "missing middle" zoning reform bill that would legalize at least two units on any 2500+ sqft parcel allowing single-family homes.

By my calculation, that'd increase the by-right zoning capacity in Chicago by at least 775,000 units. Some notes:

Bizarro multiverse Trey

gonna quote skeet this in legislation class this semester