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.

11 September 2025

A Different Drummer

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Unfortunately, the spelling here is just about as good as Nigel's understanding of volume controls… Perhaps a prediction for the fu...
07 September 2025

The Anthropic (Lack of) Principle

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Some e-mails and others' blog entries lead me to believe that the class definition in the settlement regarding Anthropic's use of pi...
04 September 2025

Ghost Peppers and Classic Rock

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This platter gets overspiced rather rapidly, I'm afraid. I'm just trying to cover the faint odor of rot from the less-than-wholesome...
27 August 2025

Footlong Follies

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Been busy doing statistical analysis of something cautioned against via cliché, so this sausage platter has not received an awful lot of car...
20 August 2025

Gov Mander's Territory

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Gerrymandering is once again a thing . These battles between unaccountable gatekeepers — the elected legislators who pass the bills are al...
13 August 2025

Leaving Aside the Illegality…

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…as in this fairly clear restriction that's a century and a half old… …the Orange Menace — or, more probably, some ineligible for...
07 August 2025

Imperfections

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Things are slowly returning to normal in the Sharknest, which reflects a rather disturbing linguistic slippage of "normal." P...
04 August 2025

Eminences Grís

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These fat bangers are well past the expiration dates on their labels. It's always amusing (and almost always disheartening) to watc...
01 August 2025

…And It Was Still Hot

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Hot for PNW, anyway, both today and two years ago. Right, Max? 🦉
22 July 2025

How [Not] to Share

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So, one obvious conceptual flaw in SharePoint has been exploited ? Color me surprised (a particularly repulsive variant of chartreuse)… I ...
14 July 2025

Not Irascible

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Instead, permanently irasced. Fortunately for those of my three regular readers who have sensitive dispositions, Life has gotten in the way ...
02 July 2025

The Finger

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Since the actual date that should be ascribed to the Declaration of Independence remains a bit uncertain — the date the Continental Congress...
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