Richard Heppner 🤷🏼♂️
@rlheppner.bsky.social
Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him
Everyone knows that it was a problem for deconstruction that De Man was a former Nazi. What this book presupposes is…
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Everyone knows that it was a problem for deconstruction that De Man was a former Nazi. What this book presupposes is…
This is true. The proper format is an unspecified number of different books.
December 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is true. The proper format is an unspecified number of different books.
Good luck, Waymo.
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Good luck, Waymo.
Lotsa Far Sides here, but this one gets me.
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Lotsa Far Sides here, but this one gets me.
What perfect album came out the year I turned 16?
(I’m old.)
(I’m old.)
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
What perfect album came out the year I turned 16?
(I’m old.)
(I’m old.)
For some reason, I just thought of this scene.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For some reason, I just thought of this scene.
I voted n’at.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I voted n’at.
I’m concerned that your reading of Sec. 253 is optimistically narrow. I could see the administration arguing that mere protestors “oppose or obstruct” ICE’s execution of immigration laws. (And that the state has failed to act.) Why is that wrong?
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’m concerned that your reading of Sec. 253 is optimistically narrow. I could see the administration arguing that mere protestors “oppose or obstruct” ICE’s execution of immigration laws. (And that the state has failed to act.) Why is that wrong?
This might be the most harrowing thing I've ever done online, but for your consideration...
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This might be the most harrowing thing I've ever done online, but for your consideration...
Curse you, Frye! I was just looking up this quote for this very purpose!
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Curse you, Frye! I was just looking up this quote for this very purpose!
Burgled a what now?
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Burgled a what now?
What kind of stupid question is this?
And why phrase your headline as a question and immediately answer it in the subhead?
And why phrase your headline as a question and immediately answer it in the subhead?
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What kind of stupid question is this?
And why phrase your headline as a question and immediately answer it in the subhead?
And why phrase your headline as a question and immediately answer it in the subhead?
This definition seems to have a typo or something. The last phrase (“but…”) doesn’t make sense.
September 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This definition seems to have a typo or something. The last phrase (“but…”) doesn’t make sense.
Started. Going.
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Started. Going.
It's not my field, so I'm likely wrong. But I can't understand how the conclusion from data like this isn't "although there are generational differences, in every generation education has a significant liberalizing effect/correlation." What am I misunderstanding?
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's not my field, so I'm likely wrong. But I can't understand how the conclusion from data like this isn't "although there are generational differences, in every generation education has a significant liberalizing effect/correlation." What am I misunderstanding?
Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
Thought this might be useful these days.
September 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thought this might be useful these days.
The G&T to G&T track is real.
September 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The G&T to G&T track is real.