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“Your favorite punching bag is no more,” someone wrote me earlier today. That’s not quite accurate. Favorite punching bags come and go, of course. At one point the record for most me-punches absorbed was clearly held by Roy Pearson, Jr. the former administrative-law judge who accused a dry cleaner of losing a pair of pants and sued it for 65 million dollars. See, e.g., “The $65-Million-Pants Case: Year 16 (June 10, 2020) (he lost but kept appealing). But a search also turns up a lot of punches aimed at one federal agency that has been consistently useless since its creation. See, e.g., “TSA: Terrorist Source of Amusement” (Mar. 31, 2013). The top ten punchees probably also include professional sleazebag Joe Francis of “Girls Gone Wild” infamy (“Judge Skeptical of Joe Francis’s Explanation” (July 30, 2014)); the corrupt and thoroughly ridiculous Rod Blagojevich (“An Evening With Blago” (Aug. 17, 2020)); and former star athlete and non-murderer O.J. Simpson (“O.J. Embarks on Long, Slow…

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