Slick Sharkey, Esq.
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Appellate lawyer, bullshit artist.
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#ca11
#LegalWriting
#TalmudLearner
#DafYomi
#WryOberver
#RyeDrinker
I had a little mini-map, no phone, no email, just miles of Parisian street and the prospect of eclairs and terrible espresso and baguettes.
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Advice commonly heard from both legal writers and ER doctors:
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Advice commonly heard from both legal writers and ER doctors:
Well of course. There’s no right to an interlocudoodle appeal.
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Delaware Chancery Court Denies Mid-Case Appeal for Goldendoodle
A precedent-setting custody case over a goldendoodle in Delaware’s premier business court doesn’t merit mid-case review from a higher authority, a judge said Monday.
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Well of course. There’s no right to an interlocudoodle appeal.
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Many of us eat Chinese food. 🕎
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Many of us eat Chinese food. 🕎
In 30 years as a lawyer, no one’s ever asked me to sell out. And I’m kind of offended by that.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In 30 years as a lawyer, no one’s ever asked me to sell out. And I’m kind of offended by that.
The downtown delivery robots now have names. This is how the robot uprising starts.
Phyllis: “I want you to know it was me.”
Phyllis: “I want you to know it was me.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The downtown delivery robots now have names. This is how the robot uprising starts.
Phyllis: “I want you to know it was me.”
Phyllis: “I want you to know it was me.”
Well, duh.
My favorite way to "derive" the Schrödinger eq: think of a plane wave with frequency ω and wave number k. Planck tells you E=hbar ω, de Broglie says p = hbar k, and Newton says E=p^2/2m. From that you can get a dispersion relation ω = (hbar/2m)k^2. Then just guess what equation has that solution.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Well, duh.
Friend: My favorite part of the pudding recipe is “you can hit this with a shot of scotch or whiskey.”
Me: What can’t you, really? I’m making my next brief a double.
Me: What can’t you, really? I’m making my next brief a double.
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Friend: My favorite part of the pudding recipe is “you can hit this with a shot of scotch or whiskey.”
Me: What can’t you, really? I’m making my next brief a double.
Me: What can’t you, really? I’m making my next brief a double.
I don’t take my extra hour of sleep every year. I save them up until I have enough for an extra day off from work.
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I don’t take my extra hour of sleep every year. I save them up until I have enough for an extra day off from work.
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This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.
Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The downtown delivery robots are gathering. I think they may be planning something.
October 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The downtown delivery robots are gathering. I think they may be planning something.
That first post-Yom Kippur Cuban coffee is the best.
October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
That first post-Yom Kippur Cuban coffee is the best.
October 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
At times like this, I am reminded of the words of Nena, when she said:
"Denk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen."
"Denk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen."
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
At times like this, I am reminded of the words of Nena, when she said:
"Denk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen."
"Denk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen."
There’s wrong, there’s amusingly wrong, and there’s annoyingly wrong.
Right now I’m too annoyed at opposing counsel’s annoying wrongness to respond. I need to hit his brief with a stick.
Right now I’m too annoyed at opposing counsel’s annoying wrongness to respond. I need to hit his brief with a stick.
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
There’s wrong, there’s amusingly wrong, and there’s annoyingly wrong.
Right now I’m too annoyed at opposing counsel’s annoying wrongness to respond. I need to hit his brief with a stick.
Right now I’m too annoyed at opposing counsel’s annoying wrongness to respond. I need to hit his brief with a stick.
Hacky New Year
September 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hacky New Year
September 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Are Gary Hart and Donna Rice still alive and available??
Breaking news: 40 years after they concealed Iran-Contra evidence together, Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall.
The quiet Virginia wedding marks a new chapter in one of the 1980s' biggest political scandals. https://wapo.st/46ceGTX
The quiet Virginia wedding marks a new chapter in one of the 1980s' biggest political scandals. https://wapo.st/46ceGTX
September 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Are Gary Hart and Donna Rice still alive and available??
Been re-reading the series in anticipation!
JUST A SINGLE WEEK exists between today and the official release of The Shattering Peace! You can still pre-order from your favorite bookseller, or come see me on my US tour! Dates and ticket information are at the link!
us.macmillan.com/tours/john-s...
us.macmillan.com/tours/john-s...
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Been re-reading the series in anticipation!
That thing when you login to Westlaw to pursue a line of research, but you get interrupted, and then you’re on Westlaw and have no idea why.
August 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
That thing when you login to Westlaw to pursue a line of research, but you get interrupted, and then you’re on Westlaw and have no idea why.
July 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
June 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM