Scrivener's Error

Law and reality in publishing and entertainment (seldom the same thing) from the creator's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into politics, military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting.

30 November 2025

The Trees Matter, Too

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I am rather pissed off at a former JAG's editorial/opinion piece originally appearing at the NYT. 1 Mr French — a former JAG — reaches ...
27 November 2025

The 2025 Turkey Awards

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An annual tradition for nearly three decades! This is my list of ridiculous people from 2025 (so far). Pass me one of those rolls, please: ...
21 November 2025

Charade You Are

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Shut up, piggy. Staying with that first kind for a moment, history's rhymes of late have sounded a lot more like hard-core counter...
20 November 2025

Again? Really?

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So, the Office of Legal Counsel appears to believe that military personnel engaged in strikes on "drug-trafficking" boats cannot/w...
12 November 2025

A Candle in the Window

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Gotta crank out these sausages so there's room in the kitchen for Turkey Day preparations. Maybe if the shutdown ends soon, SNAP recipie...
04 November 2025

Brought to You by the Letter V

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…and the number 58,318 (presuming that site can be reached during the shutdown). Both of which have been problematic. Vietnam is pretty o...
31 October 2025

A Really Cheap Costume

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SATIRE So Kim Davis is back at the Supreme Court , begging — yet again — to be allowed, as a government official, to practice a particular...
29 October 2025

You Can't Fight in Here

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This is the War Room! (even if it does look more like a press conference). This previously-unreleased video of Congressional hearings ...
21 October 2025

Tiptoe Through the Tulip Bulbs

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I'm shocked — shocked, I say — to hear that cryptobros lost a lot of money on a major downturn . Now all we need is some hungry sailor t...
16 October 2025

I Blame the "Parents"

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In a repulsive, inappropriate-for-purported-future-leaders, and nonetheless entirely unsurprising revelation (the fact of, not the timing of...
14 October 2025

Unavoidably Delayed

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Unscheduled tech challenges delayed this platter of link sausages. Don't worry, though: With modern preservative techniques, they're...
07 October 2025

Another Eye

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…for another eye 'til everyone is blind — Tommy Sands, " There Were Roses " ( c. 1985) I'll just cringe as they...
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