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Ghost of LL

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  1. There is the First Nations shop in Montreal where they sell all the furs that they’re permitted to take by treaty. It’s just incredible. Even if you’re not into furs, it’s worth checking out just to see the wild selection.
  2. Mrs.LL and I have had long discussions on this. She has vastly more restaurant experience than I do, but we're both pretty familiar with the practice. And while there are no "rules"--everything is just an ad-hoc determination--there are some patterns that you can discern. Soups, pastas, and other dishes in which the customer is going to have to dip a fork or spoon that s/he is continually eating off of back into the food--that shit is right out. Pizza, sandwiches that the kitchen cuts in half before it hits the table--if there's a whole slice of pizza or a whole half a sandwich that is left behind, that's absolutely free game. French fries, chips, and other things that get handled one-at-a-time--yeah, those are generally free game. But cold french fries are gross. And the reality is that the customer's hands are rummaging through that pile of fries/chips/fried whatever, and that's kind of gross. But at the same time, if you're a college student, eating a fried shrimp that someone's hand brushed past is far from the grossest thing you're going to do today, soooo . . . . Things like half a steak or a chicken breast that the customer would've used a knife to cut slices away with the fork only touching the piece that is being cut away and going straight into the mouth (leaving the remaining portion of the steak untouched by any mouth-touching utensil)--this is a real gray area. If there's the filet half of a prime porterhouse that's left sitting on a plate untouched, I'm eating it. No question. The gold mine is the to-go box that the customer leaves behind.
  3. I am so bored by this game.
  4. Do people eat platypus eggs? Because I bet they’re yummy.
  5. And apparently now Musk's people are at FEMA and looking to shut it down. Which is going to be great when the next hurricane hits the Gulf coast.
  6. The TCPA doesn't place a higher burden on the plaintiff to prove malice. It just creates a procedural mechanism for a defendant to get a quick dismissal and recover fees. And theoretically, it shouldn't be that hard for a plaintiff to get past a TCPA motion. All the plaintiff has to do is show a prima-facie case of every element of its claim. But in the defamation context--the malice element that you identify is going to be the tough one to show prima-facie evidence of. I mean, you do get some expedited discovery, but . . . yikes. I don't know if that answered your question. I'll also say that I didn't see whether this was filed in federal or state court. I assume it's in state court. But I think the Fifth Circuit has decided that the federal courts won't apply the TCPA because it is a purely procedural mechanism (though I could be waaaay wrong on that--beware the old lawyer who says "I think I remember a case that says . . . .").
  7. This looks ripe for a Texas Citizens Participation Act motion to dismiss. The TCPA is the anti-SLAAP statute in Texas, and it lets a defendant file a motion to dismiss a suit that arises out of the defendant's exercise of the right to free speech, the right to petition the government, or the right to association. It's a pretty draconian statute, because if the case is dismissed, then the plaintiff has to pay fees. And the fees on that kind of thing are always high. There is a commercial-speech exception, but I'm not at all certain that this would fall under that exception. Damn--I wish I was on this case. It'd be fun.
  8. This summer, I'm going to make sure my male progeny starts a lawn crew. My peeps who voted in the Democratic primary are going to get one price. Neighbors who voted in the Republican primary are going to get a very, very different price.
  9. In a related question--how is every major interchange in the state under construction all at the same time? It's amazing how I drive around, and there are these massive ramps that will run two miles long from an interchange being built. Why? And many of these interchanges are pretty new. I just don't get it.
  10. So we lost the Tariff War in less time than it took Iraq to lose the ground war in the first Gulf War? Sounds about right.
  11. And good luck getting a free agent to sign in Dallas in the future now that they know how ownership is going to treat them.
  12. In Antiquity, the Romans regarded Scandinavia as the “womb of peoples”—the place of origin of so many Germanic tribes that migrated south to cause the Romans difficulty along their frontiers. In much the same way, I regard Minnesota as the “womb of washed-up defensemen who can’t reasonably contribute as Top-4 blue-liners.”
  13. That’s the only way this makes sense to me—as the preliminary step in engineering a move that Dallas as a city and fan base would be fine with in the expectation that Dallas would quickly get a replacement.
  14. We need to normalize switching professional-franchise loyalty. I did it when Cuban sold the team and reverted back to my childhood Spurs loyalty. You can, too. You don’t owe the Mavs shit. And if they’re going to decide to be shitty (and probably be shitty in Vegas), who stick with them?
  15. Generic Hockey Player is consistently the funniest voter going because it is such a dead-on-balls-accurate impersonation of Jamie Benn. Like, it really might be Jamie Benn calling in.
  16. Credit here for the display of a modicum of self-awareness. It's oddly refreshing in an internet discussion.
  17. "Goddamnit--how could the Democrats do this?"
  18. That'd be a DEI inclusion. And we don't play that anymore.
  19. In complete fairness--and I really can't believe you're making me stick up for Ted fuckface Cruz--it's only five slots. And the slots haven't yet been activated. So Cruz's advocacy for five additional slots didn't have anything to do with this crash. Goddamnit--now I need a fucking shower.
  20. I mean, a chance? Sure. But not terribly likely I wouldn’t think. Much more likely a pilot fuck-up.
  21. Yeah—there’s just no fucking way we’re ever closing DCA.
  22. My son is a sophomore. He's a good student. I mean, real good. He has a GPA that's north of 4.0 at Westlake. At the same time, he's not the valedictorian or anything like that. So I was surprised when I got home yesterday and saw a promotional mailer to him from Columbia. I mean, I didn't know an Ivy League school sent out mailers to high school students. I mean, no Ivy League school ever sent any promotional materials to me when I was in high school. But anyway--and not to take anything away--I couldn't help wonder whether this had something to do with Columbia having been a shitshow for the past year. I don't know what their application numbers look like, but I wonder if they haven't seen a material decrease.
  23. I'm going to tell you what--if this law thing doesn't work out, Brisket could have a future as a professional ghostwriter of eulogies. That was beautiful, man.
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