All of this makes me crazy

This is what they used to do to crazy people.  Pretty soon, this could be me.
This is what they used to do to crazy people. Pretty soon, this could be me.

I’ve spent the last 10 billable hours, yesterday and today, trying to figure out available causes of actions and appropriate statutes of limitations in a complicated case with lots of potential defendants. As best as I can tell, Lexis is the world’s worst legal search engine. I’ve been running around in circles trying to find useful authority, whether in cases, treatises, or statutes. As best as I can tell, the client’s main claim is time-barred, but there are some peripheral claims that might still survive.

This has made me grumpy, and I’m not made any less grumpy by

  1. Obama’s manifest determination to sell America’s soul, and Israel’s survival, to Iran;
  2. Congressional Republicans’ inability to stop Obama’s grossly illegal legislative amnesty acts;
  3. the Justice Department’s decision that Ferguson police are racist for stopping more blacks than whites, never mind that all police forces, except where there are no blacks, stop more blacks than whites;
  4. the spirit of forgiveness my Progressive friends are extending to Hillary despite increasing evidence of her corrupt dealings with foreign governments and with the American people via illegal email accounts; and
  5. the Supreme Court’s apparent unwillingness to state that a statute means what it says, especially when one of the architects repeatedly boasts that it was intentionally drafted to mean precisely that.

I don’t have time to blog, which is what I really want to do.

I don’t have time to think, which is what I really need to do.

I can’t understand the amorphous legal material floating in and out of my grasp, even though I must.

And I’m trying not to think about the world Obama has given us, because it makes me crazy.

If you have words of wisdom or consolation, chime in here. If all of this is also making you crazy, chime in here. If you have something interesting to say, chime in here. If you have the kind of astute analysis I’m incapable of offer today, definitely chime in here.

And please forgive the paucity of information, analysis, and the usual chit-chat. The exigencies of litigation tend to override everything else.