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Monday, September 28, 2026

OVERREACTION MONDAY

 It is overreaction Monday, time to overreact about last week's events...Or Not. 

The Chinese came to the White House last weekend and were served Mexican take-out. Overreaction? What's your Miami go-to Mex take out? Taco Rico on US1 for us. 

The first-floor cafe at the hollowed-out REGJB remains closed. It used to be the place to schmooze and network and find your judge and prosecutor sharing a colada and strike a plea. Now, we barely talk -rejecting plea offers by text. The future of our (somewhat) beloved criminal courthouse looks bleak. Overreaction or a fair comment on current events? 

The Straits of Hormuz remain closed. The war drags on. Republicans are going to pay the price in the midterm elections. Overreaction or just the lay of the political landscape? 

The Dolphins lost again. Their future is as bleak or bleaker than the REGJB. Overreaction because the Fins hung tough with KC for most of four quarters, or just recognizing another several years of Miami losing football? 

But your Miami Hurricanes are looking good. Overreaction because their schedule has been weakish?

High bond rates are threating stock equities. Overreaction because the market has mostly shrugged off the high rates, or just recognizing what Wall Street has not come to terms with yet?

The Nor'easter slammed the north-east coast of the US. Overreaction because this was no Hurricane Sandy or fair comment because lots of towns are flooded with no electricity. 

Got a topic for overreaction Monday? Post it. 

Enjoy the week in Miami where we assure you it is much drier than where we are. 



15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Miami has the Dolphins an 0-3 football team.
They can’t do much with the ball
Something we’ve always seen
Not in the air
Not on the ground
And a beer costs 15 bucks
And if you’re talking Miami and Super Bowl
We think you’re F’ing nuts!

Anonymous said...

why do you never talk about the Corfu Channel case? Interesting and suspicious

Anonymous said...

Does this blog still follow local judicial news?

Anonymous said...

Nothing like sipping a pina colada on a a Monday afternoon. The life of
A defense attorney.

Anonymous said...

I miss Judge Postman telling the prosecutor that she looked lovely in that dress from Ross Dress for Less. And then ordering the rude PD to bring donuts for everyone the next day.

Those were the days my friend.

Anonymous said...

Gators number 8. Wall Street Journal, of all things, reports on the Gators maniac weight lifting program. Overreaction or the beginning of the Baugh era?

Anonymous said...

I was in Virginia Beach, VA last week and caught a little bit of bands from that storm; it's not to be taken lightly, the wind gusts were quite substantial

Rumpole said...

I’m not sure what blog you’ve been reading but it hasn’t been this one and you my friend and neither a long time nor careful reader. We have NEVER “followed” local judicial news. We have reported news. We have made news. But we surely have never and will never follow local judicial news. We cannot imagine anything more pedantic and boring.

Rumpole said...

Beginning of the era from what we saw this past Saturday

Anonymous said...

Judge Alan Postman was the best. So kind to all. His big personality is not seen in the meek jurists on the bench today.

Rumpole, do you remember Judge Postman?

Rumpole said...

I do not share your fondness and so I will remain uncharacteristically silent.

Fake Joel Denaro said...

Judge Postman was rude, obnoxious, and above all else an ignoramus. He pretended to be kind and jovial by making the comments about donuts, but that was a facade. He loathed being told he was wrong even when he was in fact wrong. He made poor rulings and terrorized people for no reason. He should have never come over to criminal court where his decisions affected people so deeply. He should have stayed in civil deciding discovery disputes.

Rumpole said...

yes I agree. He was not good in criminal and hurt people to protect himself and his seat. He didn’t have the courage to do the right thing.

CAPTAIN JUSTICE said...

Trivia Question from Captain Justice:

Who remembers the candidate who beat Postman, unseating the incumbent.

CAPTAIN JUSTICE said...

No Googling or use of AI.