It’s a footnote to a sidelight, but watching Trump speak this morning about the events in Venezuela last night, I almost felt a little sorry for the guy. He can barely read a text that’s been prepared for him, and when, perhaps impatient with his own bumbling progress, he freelances for awhile, the result is…

I used to think that law school must be pretty boring, but maybe not. As for the reading, it seems that sometimes even the footnotes to judicial decisions are enjoyable. For example, here is the text of a footnote to an appellate court’s opinion in U.S. v Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir.…