RBSonnenmoser
Wax Critical
Amy Wax, an otherwise unremarkable law professor, has been much in the news. Not for scholarly breakthroughs or contributions to her...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Dec 25, 2022
- 9 min
Christmas Eve
We lost our dog, Frankie, yesterday. On December 23, 2022, our beloved rust-colored Miniature Pinscher died. He was twelve. He had kidney...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 14, 2021
- 6 min
POTUS Defense: Merely an Advocate of Insurrection
There’s a game people play when opening their fortune cookies. You read your fortune out loud and add “in bed” at the end. It’s not so...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 7, 2021
- 5 min
Josh Hawley Thinks You're Stupid
In “Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager,” from season 7 of The Office, Dwight Schrute, played by Rainn Wilson, accidently fires a gun at...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jun 29, 2020
- 30 min
Keep On: Thoughts on the Moral Aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd
“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Oct 13, 2019
- 13 min
The Second Half of the Sentence
The phrase that got all the attention was “I would like you to do us a favor though.” Because we can hear it in the mouth of a movie...
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RBSonnenmoser
- May 7, 2019
- 10 min
Rejection Feeds Artistic Creation. Canceling Starves It. (Part 1 of 2)
I’ve been thinking a lot about rejection lately. Which is to say: I’m writing. The memoir I’ve been writing for the last few years is...
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RBSonnenmoser
- May 7, 2019
- 11 min
Rejection Feeds Artistic Creation. Cancellation Starves It. (Part 2 of 2)
During the "Ask Ellen" segment of Relatable, Degeneres invites a friend, the actor Laura Dern, who is sitting in the audience (next to...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Feb 5, 2019
- 12 min
Living with the Low Boil
A wildly inappropriate simmering rage that, to my shame, lives beneath even typical Saturdays Last weekend, Kori and I took our kids to...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 23, 2019
- 9 min
These Storms Will Change You
A Review of Heather Harpham's Happiness I’ve been thinking a lot about this Facebook post by my friend and colleague John Gallaher:...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 11, 2019
- 11 min
Messrs. Graves, Blunt, and Hawley,
Tear down this wall. They’re going to get jobs. I think I’m going to do very well with Hispanics. But we’re building a wall. He’s a...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 5, 2019
- 9 min
“So, Whatever”: Why I Believe Christine Blasey Ford, Pt. 1
The 2018 election's over. Kavanaugh's been confirmed. He's earning a salary and writing opinions. So I know what I'm not doing: trying to...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 5, 2019
- 12 min
“So, Whatever”: Why I Believe Christine Blasey Ford, Pt. 2
Because his calendars are calendars. Or: An exploration of why Brett Kavanaugh's conventions, codes, and stories only convinced me that...
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RBSonnenmoser
- Jan 2, 2019
- 9 min
Of Frogs in Drain Pipes
Do I write music and literary prose for the same reason that male frogs seek out cavernous spaces to amplify their voices? As a way to...
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