Friday, December 4, 2025

Good morning. The Supreme Court is a shambolic, intellectually vacuous joke. These six shameless, cynical, smarmy old assholes have got to go, even if it means ousting everyone and starting from scratch. Anyway, on to the newsletter.

Item 1: a link

This is an oldie but goodie – the story about one of the strangest bugs in internet history.

I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when
I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department.

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. "Come again?"

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."

Read on... if you dare.

Of course, given the realities of anything finding an audience on the internet, poor Trey seems to have received a lot of annoying feedback, much of which you can reverse engineer from the FAQ.

Item 2: a list

Supreme Court Justices, Ranked:

1. Ketanji Brown Jackson
2. Sonia Sotomayor
3. Elena Kagan
4. Neil M. Gorsuch
5. Amy Coney Barrett
6. Clarence Thomas
7. Brett M. Kavanaugh
8. John G. Roberts
9. Samuel A. Alito

Item 3: a media recommendation

Item 4: word of the week

Indissoluble

"One nation, indissoluble" doesn't have the right ring to it. Makes it sound like someone's going to try to dunk us in milk or something. How about "indivisible"?

Item 5: an image

See ya!

Thanks for reading. See you next week, unless Wolmania gets enjoined on the shadow docket.