"Latin verb tumēre, meaning 'to swell' or 'to be proud.'"

"The Latin adjective contumax means 'rebellious,' or, in specific cases, 'showing contempt of court.' Contumacious is related to contumely, meaning 'harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt.' Both contumacious and contumely are thought to ultimately come from the... 2/3

Boasberg providing the word of the day:

contumacious (adj): stubbornly disobedient : rebellious

"Legal contexts are one area where you might encounter this fancy word for "rebellious" or "insubordinate" - and the link between contumacious and the law goes back to Latin. 1/3

This is a story that will make its way into the book also but has to be told here. I was flying back from FRA to SEA and had to connect in DTW. The TSA guy at DTW says "I need to pat down your left arm." He finishes and then says "there's nothing there". Me: "Nothing? What about my guns?"

This is the kind of stuff I loved learning about in my pathology class. Also, one of my lab TAs was studying molds and I remember him saying that if you want a chance to name a new species, go into mycology because we are always finding new fungi.

From CaptainMidnight

RIP to the Schwab. He would love this.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

And for everyone's persual:

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries: schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sev...

"It’s not something I have a lot of memories about, outside of the fact that ultimately the commercial kind of seems like the brother and sister are going to have sex. That’s why we’re talking, right?"

I love this quote from Timothy Simons (cameraman for auditions/callbacks)

"This was a very long time ago and if you asked me if I would end up being interviewed about this commercial that I worked on, 10 years later, I would not have believed you, because it was altogether pretty unremarkable. 1/

There are also some changes between DVD and initial broadcast, but so many key songs were changed for streaming it felt off. So I've bought the seasons on DVD and do it for my favorites now because you never know.

I've been pro-physical media for awhile, but the thing that sealed it was "Scrubs". For me, the music made a good show into a great show. But they didn't have the music rights for streaming for a lot of them because streaming didn't exist at the time. So 18 songs were changed for streaming. /1