Category Archives: Law, suits and order

Other people’s legal problems, aside from my own.

A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!

Posted on April 23, 2026 by Naomi

Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading →

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Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Naomi

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading →

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Who does MAGA think it’s fooling? This guy

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Naomi

In yesterday’s Voice of the People (letters to the editor) in the Daily News, Ralph A. Manente from Yonkers entered a passionate expression of support for Trump’s retribution against his “enemies.” (This guy knows nothing about courts, juries, trials, judges … Continue reading →

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