Don Zeko

I worked as a lifeguard in high school and never once saved anybody. Bullshit job, right?

The law might formally apply equally to everyone but charging decisions sure as hell don't.

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why?

Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors.

C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily?

O: I didn’t ask because

C: They were dead?

Oh for sure. They do not believe the same rules should apply to themselves and their enemies. That's not hypocrisy; it's worse.

Chotiner: How long did you stay with Calypso?
Odysseus: Seven years
Chotiner: As her prisoner?
Odysseus: Yes. I was bewitched.
Chotiner: And another year with Circe?
Odysseus: It's complicated.

I feel like we're watching the general belgrano 2 narrative happen in real time (although I guess the distinction is that the Brits weren't fighting an unlawful war in the Falklands)

Farmer/mill worker, tv repairman. Both my parents are first generation college students. So they can claim blue collar origins but I am a guy who grew up in the suburbs as the son of a psychologist.

The really amazing thing here is that this exact dynamic played out in the Red Sea two years ago.

Evil elf knights riding frigging dinosaurs

Dark Elves in Warhammer get shock cavalry riding fantasy velociraptors, which is exactly as cool to me today as it was when I was in middle school.

Here's the list if any of you are big enough sickos to be interested: www.newrecruit.eu/app/list/T94Uy

I have barely played The Old World (because kids) so will probably lose a lot, but I'm still hyped.

For the first time since having kids (hell, almost for the first time since they launched Age of Sigmar) I am going to a Warhammer tournament this weekend. I'll try to take a few pictures and nerd out.

Looks great. I love skaven as a faction.

Rats rats rats rats rats

Election results from yesterday showing Roy Cooper with 92% of the vote.

This is the primary, sure, but Roy does not fuck around

And that's why it would be unfair to sentence Al Capone more harshly than anyone else convicted of tax evasion.

Oh boy

#ncpol

Cooper quoting this with “not my GOAT” and a picture of college Jordan, gaining 100,000 votes

Hell, this is precisely why criminal statutes typically give judges a fair amount of latitude in the severity of sentence to impose: Because the same statute often encompasses a wide range of conduct that is not exactly equally bad.

Can you officially be an ace from just friendly fire?

My favorite little detail is that his tattoo is the skull in the "are the the baddies" sketch

Take me, for example. Ask me how you handle it if your client hands you a forged doctor's note that they want you to present to a judge

Before we send Hegseth to the Hague we need to make him write "the enemy gets a vote" on a blackboard 500 times.

This asshole waited until he started the war to even begin to consider what the Iranians might do in response.

We talk about how hard it is to amend the constitution but the AUMF only needed a majority vote in Congress.

Look, sometimes your clients will make you an asshole in court you do your best and you protect your license.

It doesn't give them a free pass on their hypocrisy or inconsistency, but it ought to demonstrate that some things are much worse than hypocrisy.

Could the press please, finally, learn this lesson:

Everything these people said about Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, starting new wars—all of it—was false. Not because they meant the opposite, but because they're post-truth and say whatever they think gets them an advantage in the moment.

Yeah, I have a lot of questions about how the 2028 Olympics are going to happen

Goddamnit bsky.app/profile/atru...