Category Archives: Law, suits and order

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

Is everyone going crazy?

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [L]aw enforcement officers in Massachusetts attempted to rehome a 7-foot-tall puppet. “If this belongs to you—or if you recognize it from your nightmares,” the department wrote, “please contact us.”

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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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