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Rawpixel CC0 1.0 PFAS has been much on the lips of regulators, lately and at last.  As I wrote in 2021 , the movie Dark Waters (2019), bas...

As advertised , last week in Kraków, Poland, I had the great privilege to talk law, development, and the FIFA World Cup, with the group sta...

The Defender Brief by 9 Alarm Apparel A Massachusetts textile maker has teamed with firefighters to make cancer-preventive underwear. In Oct...

In March, I visited Miami Beach and found it to have the feel of a police state. Uvalde and the shortly subsequent widely reported shootings...

Comedian and social critic John Oliver's latest top story on HBO's Last Night concerned PFAS, the artificial chemical substances b...

Of all the funny takes on an outraged voter's crashing of a Nevada election press conference, John Oliver's takes top honors for fe...

John Oliver's Big Coal SLAPP nemesis, Bob Murray, retires Pixabay by Aksa2011 An IT specialist at a Canadian university is defending a...

Actor, model, and District Attorney Lucas Babin (Steve Stewart CC BY 4.0 ) A Tyler County, Texas, grand jury has indicted Netflix for lewd ...

Another week in quarantine .  Technically, my latter and last.  But until there's an antibody test , who can go anywhere?  Here's my...

John Oliver this week on Last Week revisited the defamation lawsuit he drew against HBO from Bob Murray and Murray Energy.  The piece brings...

Goodman as Linda Tripp, Molly Shannon as Lewinsky, in 1998 ( SNL ). President Clinton's escapades were good business for SNL , which...

  Kitty Bruce cuts the ribbon on the Lenny Bruce archive at the Brandeis University Goldfarb Library. There is indecent language i...