Sebastian

–by Sebastian There are a bunch of media discussions about various voters being inappropriately afraid of violence in cities that I am deliberately not going to link because focusing on per capita numbers doesn't get to the way our brains work.  We want to get to them eventually, but I don't think you can without … Read more

–By Sebastian H 30 years ago my mother was in a car accident.  She was stopped in the left hand turn lane of a major intersection.  Someone blew through the light, T-boned another car, which spun around the intersection so violently it was able to hit my mother's van on three different sides.  She got … Read more

–By Sebastian Justice Kennedy resigning is a horrible blow.  As a gay man I wouldn't say that he always had our back, but he was an ally (in the sense of having very different priorities, yet still working together with us) nonetheless.  If we are going to get through all this we probably need to … Read more

–Sebastian In this time of Trump, it seems almost indulgent to worry about personal fears of unverifiable things, but we can't let Trump be our only source of misery now can we?  My paternal grandmother had a particularly nasty descent into Alzheimer's disease about 10 years before her death.  The signs started earlier, but she … Read more

–by Sebastian I wonder if some of the reason we are talking past each other on sexual harassment in employment is colored by true experiences that people we personally know have had with companies that dealt with things very differently. I used to work in employment law in California (an employee friendly state). I’ve thankfully … Read more

-by Sebastian This last week was the Bridge Nationals in San Diego.  So of course I went.  I won a few side events (yay!) but the best moment was from an event I didn't win.  Bridge is one of the few games where if you want to you can enter to compete with the very … Read more

Here are Kushner's prepared remarks.  I believe his defense can be boiled down to–I went to lots of meetings that I didn't know anything about and they were Bore-ing. I don't have the energy to parse it for all the hedges, but one particular hedge got my lawyerly spider sense tingling: Reuters news service has … Read more

–by Sebastian I'm popping in because of all the crazy things going on with Trump, this may be the craziest one so far.  All of the obvious things about Comey's firing are being talked about all over the place.  Rod Rosenstein's letter regarding Comey's firing is being treated as pretext, which is appropriate.  The main … Read more

–by Sebastian Lots of things scare me about Trump.  So many that it is really hard to focus on one.  Which I'm half-convinced is a strategy, or at least a fortuitous-for-him habit that Trump has of throwing up so many crazy things that you can't grasp any one*. One of the few tenuous strands of … Read more

–by Sebastian I feel like am barely treading water about the Trump Presidency.  It creates such a huge number of scary possibilities that I don't know how to form a good plan about what to do about it.  I normally like to tackle the big picture and then fill in details, but I can't do … Read more