Pettifoggery

1: engaging in cheap legal chicanery
2: incessant quibbling over trivial details

Blog Posts

  • 13 Nov. 2024 – Around the Web Edition

    13 Nov. 2024 – Around the Web Edition

    Here at Pettifoggery, we strive to bring you nothing but the best chicanery, bickering, and squabbling. A large part of that is realizing that other sites are far superior than this one at detailing the abject state of the world. To jumpstart today’s pettifoggery, here’s a few links: Cory Doctorow’s blog: Bluesky and Enshittification.https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/ This…

  • 11 Nov. 2024 – Back to Work Edition

    Alright. Trip to the Falls is over. Kid is back in school (no Veteran’s Day for West Orange schools!). Time to start drafting interrogatory answers. Good as anything for a Monday after an awesome vacation I suppose. For those of you not in the biz, interrogatories are essentially fancy legal jargon for “questions” that need…

  • 10 Nov. 2024 – Canada Edition

    10 Nov. 2024 – Canada Edition

    Just back from the falls. Shoutout to NJ public schools for their ridiculous amount of days off (ever consider just ending school a week early rather than peppering the year with random days off? Or is that too reasonable). Lots of NJ plates in the Niagara falls parking lot. Guess we weren’t the only parents…

  • 6 Nov. 2024 – YUCK.

    Well, he did it. The Orange Man is back. I have no idea how this guy can hoodwink tens of millions of people. But he did, and the stale late night TV repeating the same Trump jokes night after night is only the tip of the iceberg. Here’s a link to a better blog to…

  • Hmmm

    Do the posts include the date they were posted?