I DON’T KNOW WHAT CELIA DID RIGHT: But all my fans who read her advance snippets are jumping up and down waiting for this to drop:  The Hallmark-Style Flannel Romance.

I REFUSE TO IDENTIFY AS “GENERATION JONES” SINCE THE BOOMERS GAVE US THAT NAME:  Boomers – A vampiric generation battening on the blood of the young.

I don’t “jones” for anything they have.  And to be fair, this is not exactly the “boomers” fault as a weird confluence of demographics, impact of mass media, and–  But yeah, in the main, we’re eating seed corn to keep boomers comfortable in old age. Just like price of college has gone through the roof so Beardo the Weirdo can be comfortable.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

LAW IN THE AGE OF AI: Duty to Alert Court to Opponents’ “Fictitious Citation[s]” and “Misrepresentation of Case Law.” “To be sure, lawyers often need no prompting to alert the court to errors by the other side. But sometimes they might feel reluctant to look like they’re piling on with objections, especially when the erroneous citation is on a tangential point, or when they think they’ve already destroyed the other side’s arguments on the merits. And sometimes they might be reluctant to spend their time and the client’s money on putting together a list of errors by the other side (especially when that requires a whole new supplemental filing). These decisions show that, despite that, alerting the court to all the citation errors you found in the other side’s filings may be important to maintaining the court’s confidence and goodwill.”

NOT ADMITTING THE OBVIOUS: BBC Can’t Admit the Obvious. “The Australian Broadcasting Corporation insists that the Bondi Beach terrorist attack had nothing to do with religion. Not to be outdone, the British Broadcasting Corporation says, ‘Hold My Beer,’ and refuses to admit that the Intifada(s) were all about killing Jews.”

GUNS FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE: