Any Politicians Being Recalled in Your State?

 If not, what are you waiting for? Recalls rule!

In sunny California, our annoying Governor will be on trial in the fall, and while he'll probably survive, I look forward to hearing his many, many crimes recounted in juicy detail, accompanied by lots of cheesy, low-budget campaign ads from all the loons who want to replace him.

In non-recall news, Lat is "winding down" his job as a headhunter to work full time on his newsletter, so if you're secretly planning a lateral move, now is the time to act!

Anything Good on TV?

 Seeing as we apparently won’t have a riot on our hands since the jury voted the politically correct way, anyone have recommendations on what to watch on TV?

Anyone Release The Kraken Lately?

 At FR’s Request:

“ Somebody make a quick article about our favorite Kraken (not cracka) lawyer. I got lots of funny advize. Surprised she hasn’t plead “immunity” since Trump made her a special person counsel”

Show of hands: Anyone here NOT on Biden's SCOTUS 'reform' panel?

 President Biden has created his promised blue ribbon panel on the Supreme Court, with its chief mandate of producing within six months of its inaugural meeting an analysis of "the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform." 

 The EO does not identify any extant problems that necessitate "reform," but it does say it's a job requiring input from thirty-six "distinguished constitutional scholars, retired members of the Federal judiciary, or other individuals having experience with and knowledge of the Federal judiciary and the Supreme Court of the United States." A full roster with bios can be found here.

If I'm being honest, I don't recognize most of the names. (A few ring a bell, such as Democratic Swamp creature Walter Dellinger and Laurence Tribe, a Twitter loon who moonlights at Harvard Law.) But to my admittedly untrained eye for all things blue-ribbony, 36 seems like a number you'd pick if you secretly wanted your "reform" commission to come up with a ten-page report from a plurality of milquetoasts and two dozen conflicting minority reports -- all to be read by few people of influence and acted upon by none.

I suppose that will have to be good enough for me.

Biden’s CDC director declares racism ’a serious public health threat’

 “What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans,” Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said in a statement. “As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation.”

No word on when a vaccine will be available.

Back to the Office?

 

I wanted to see what everyone's office situation is currently looking like and where you see yourself officing later this year.  As I've mentioned before, I'll be working from home permanently.  Most of the people I know who are in BigLaw are already back in the office.

My overhead is around 25% of what it was when I had a physical office.  I'd much rather work from home and get paid more.  I'm curious how many other firms are going to scale back on office space to cut overhead.

Today in Wokeness: Fonts are now RACEIST

 Until yesterday, I didn't even know that Tom Hanks had a son named Chet.  I mean really, Chet?  

Apparently Chet has a line of clothing known as White Boy Summer.  People are getting very upset because his line of clothing includes a raceist font.  I'm not making that up.  Apparently news outlets are so spooked about being called raceist, most of the stories don't even include the font.  I finally found it and it looks like some sort of variation on Gothic.  I saw one person who went on to call the font "aggressively racist."

Apparently the font is considered raceist because some white supremacist groups use it.  It's also claimed that it was the font that was on the cover of Hitler's original edition of Mein Kampf.  However, I couldn't independently verify that as true.

It's ridiculous that once a white supremacist uses something, it's automatically raceist.  I think that it gives those idiots way too much power over our culture.  Also, this sort of outrage is completely counterproductive.  There is no reason that I ever should have known who Chet Hanks is.  He looks like he's a complete idiot (and a terrible aspiring rapper).  He's now gotten way more publicity than he ever deserved thanks to the woke mob.

Chet Hanks criticised for using ‘racist’ font on ‘White Boy Summer’ merchandise (msn.com)