Episode 184: Bleep that Bleep

Oral Argument

Here's your Thanksgiving Holiday episode, perfect for travel and your other holiday needs. If you listen only for law-related content, you'll probably want to skip to 01:17:16, where we somewhat casually discuss the controversy over whether the supposed Acting Attorney General was properly appointed. But we discuss many mailbag-related topics: the California fires and climate change (00:25), politeness and over-decorousness (8:53), how we imagine the mailbag and the miracles of pre-computer-age physical organization (11:06), how to find a good coffeeshop and the origins of "heyday" (22:15), our supposed bad taste in movies and our regard for certain consumer electronics (38:47), caselaw access and textbooks (55:44), seekers (59:44), markdown and word processing and the inevitable demise of Oral Argument (01:03:19), a discussion of the pretending Acting Attorney General and meltdowns and trainwrecks (01:17:16), podcast recommendations (01:33:30).

• Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome
• About Michael Mann
• About The Story of Star Wars LP
• Travis Bostick, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mother!, and Sound Over Score
• Caselaw Access Project; H2O
• About Markdown
• Oral Argument 11: Big Red Diesel, on Markdown and word processors
• Ulysses and Byword
• Bat Kid is cancer free
• Jed Shugerman, Whitaker’s Appointment as Acting Attorney General Is Statutorily Illegal; Stephen Vladeck, Whitaker May Be a Bad Choice, but He’s a Legal One; Walter Dellinger and Marty Lederman, Initial Reactions to OLC’s Opinion on the Whitaker Designation as “Acting” Attorney General
• Podcasts: Bag Man, Slow Burn, Serial (and Oral Argument 44: Serial), Feeding Us, Ipse Dixit