I just watched the new Christmas advertised film “Family Switch” (2023) on Netflix, with a cast led by well known Hollywood stars Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner. Last year saw a big budget Holiday film, Spirited with Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer do well and kinda fit into the popular modern Christmas movie season culture. Family Switch is about a family becoming more and more disconnected as two teenage kids grow older, and have a life-altering chance encounter with an astrological reader who apparently is also a Lyft driver driving some weird van or some shit.

I’ve mentioned the explosion of games, most of them wordplay-related, inspired by the Wordle craze a couple years back. (Wordle’s still successful, just like they still sell hula hoops, but the “craze” period has passed.) Of those, the most creatively rewarding is Cine2Nerdle. Cine2Nerdle gets its odd name from its sequel status. The original CineNerdle was an online jigsaw using frames from movies. I found it fun but unremarkable and soon moved on.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! In spring 2020, Aileen Mercedes Cannon was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a district judge in the Southern District of Florida. She was relatively young, not even 40, as well as somewhat inexperienced to serve as a trial-court judge, with only four jury trials under her belt.

I tell people they need to know two things about Evangelicals and Southern Baptists: they are more okay with brutal violence than you want to imagine, and more fearful and weird about sex than you could ever imagine. When I was a teenager, one of my only few friends disappeared, as if his own family had placed him in witness protection. He fell in love with a girl from our group.

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