SUNDAY THOUGHTS

 We went 2-1 in our Wild Card Saturday picks. We did not abandon our Fins but they abandoned us in a shockingly poor performance in KC, but as we have been saying all year, the Under came in, as did our pick of the Texans over the Browns. 

Non-Football Stuff. 

Who else wants to form a class action lawsuit against the 1-800-kars-4-kids commercial and that insidious song that bangs around in your head for hours after being subject to that nauseating jingle? 

It is not so much as people like Trump, it is that 35-40% of the population that is under-educated and disenfranchised doesn't like everything else, and Trump is about wrecking everything. 

Global warming and rising seas are a hoax. What is real is that part of the west side walk way, bike path, running path of NYC, especially in lower Manhattan is currently under water. Historic beach front fishing shacks that have stood in Maine since the 1830's were just washed away in the current storm with unprecedented high seas. But there is no such thing as rising seas due to glaciers melting.  The people who think like this are the same ones who won't get a vaccine because they have not studied what is in it. Like those people have done detailed spectrographic analysis of Tylenol, or anti-biotics. Whatever. 

West Side Highway this weekend 

Can you think of a Judge who would stretch the bounds of rules of procedure to right a wrong and free an innocent person? In the 1970's 80's and 90's we could think of dozens. Now that list is down to 3 or 4, including federal judges. Sad. 

You can bet online now with the Hardrock app in Florida. The deal that the Tribe cut with DeSantis is that in exchange for the exclusive rights to on line sports betting in Florida, Hardrock would not oppose a casino outside of a 15-mile radius of their casinos in Broward. When you draw that radius circle, you know what is 17 miles away? The Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Just sayin...

Do you really think about Martin King on his federal holiday? We don't. We don't think of Washington or Lincoln on Presidents Day either. We think of King when we see the horrible state of criminal defense throughout the country. When we see poor people being crushed by a system administered by judges raised in the just "call balls and strikes" era of judging (unless the topic is abortion or politics).  But maybe tomorrow is a good day to take some time off and read Letter From Birmingham Jail. 

Do you use AI in your practice?  You will. Trust us. It is inevitable. We had AI just write a memo on the legal issues in a database of transcripts for an appeal. And the product was not bad. A solid B. It missed some points, but caught the big ones. We did this after we wrote the brief to see how could our AI service is. And of course what Judge is going to say "no" to the pitch of doing less work and reading less motions so they have more time for important stuff like ....fill in the blank. 

Football: 

Here are some props we like for Sunday. 

Cowboys WR Lamb over 98 receiving yards. 

Cowboys -2.5 first quarter. 

Rams rookie sensation WR Puka Nacua over 79 receiving yards. 

Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown over 90 receiving yards. 

Lions RB Gibbs over 21.5 receiving yards. 

Remember our motto: Bet what you can afford...and then a whole lot more. You can always make more money.