ReBrand
MAAS redux
Well, I’m back to writing on my laptop. Waiting for Claude to close. Ah, that’s better. Now let’s go to our AI safe space. Picture a good memory or scene from your life, then go there. Better? Glad you feel better and very glad you could make it! Robots make tedious work easier, but are never a substitute for creativity. Now let’s get on with it!
The seasons of change are upon us, y’all. I say seasons because change is constant, it just appears in different forms, sometimes in the multiple. AI has changed everything. The U.S. constitution was changed by a little Trump ad-lib with his war powers.1 I went from a service-driven occupation to opening a retail store in my home-town. Now I spend a majority of my time digging out live bait from various aqua apparatuses and boxes. Life is strange sometimes.
So too are we changing here at Much Ado About Something. The change will be rather subtle, but also means we are shifting away from being a predominately criminal justice type publication. Instead, it will be a more even-keeled look at whats going on in the world.2 We will still talk about the intersections of criminal wrongdoing, justice, and everything else related, so don’t worry. Much of what now is happening at the national level as far as criminal justice goes defies logic and reason, so we will try to focus on more local stories going forward. The name is not changing, however.
The reasons I am doing this re-brand are two-fold: (1) criminal justice was something I lived and breathed, but since my absence of practicing on the attorney level, I have done other things; (2) I own this publication and can generally do whatever I like with it - you, dear reader, do not need to read it if you do not like it.
As to the first point, I still feel very passionate about criminal justice, but I have other things I care about too. It shouldn’t be a surprise to any of you that I feel like the writing I do can’t be hemmed in within one topic. I created this back in 2023 trying to sort out my life and criminal prosecution. The person that pointed me towards this website is also partly responsible for my inevitable convictions at trial. If I had taken the plea offered, I would likely be practicing again. Within that influence of that person, I found there to be a lot more that goes into criminal prosecution and the process, as most of it did not center on the criminal justice apparatus itself. Toxic masculinity, wealth disparities, ego, and feeling “special” all led me to the convictions I got in late 2023.
Now, three years later, I’ve had the ability to look back on my actions and problems to discuss them with more latitude. Watching my old friends fade away and taking up the mantle of fatherhood has helped me really look in the mirror at who I am and what I stand for. Maybe this applies to you, maybe it does not. However, the need to dictate my writing to what “sells” or gets me a 1000 likes and reshares is exactly what I am against. I already do that in my own life as a business owner.
I’ve also always known life is short, as I experienced in my first decade+ on this earth. But what I’ve grasped even more in living this life is that parts of your life are also transitory. Many of the iron-clad things you believe in or trust in are shattered when you least expect them, giving way to the cliche of raw-sewage that is “life is messy.” Relationships, paragons, pillars, vibes, ideals and ideas are all somewhat wistful when it comes to father time. Some of those things I felt would never fade did indeed fade as time went on and I continued to change. Heartbreaking as it is, that’s “show business baby” as they say. It just part of living.
So now that I have a bit more downtime at my job because of the retail hours I work, I’m hoping you will come along with me as I write about a more eclectic blend of things like current events and politics, legal news, building a small business, parenting, and - some - pop culture. Will there be analysis? Sure. Will the Pursuit of Justice continue on? Yes. Can I promise you an article each week? Probably not. But as far as I’m concerned, there’s a lot more of my body of work to read now, so enjoy.
I have not actively written for a while now, but I do want to shout out the people who have in the interim found my stuff here and have engaged with me by subscribing, liking, and sharing my work. Knowing that someone actually likes what I have to say is a big boost for my mental health, because talking to a blank wall does get somewhat boring after a while.
For those of you who have been day-one subscribers, you know that you are the OGs. Your vibing with my writing has propelled me to more writing, some of it warranted, some of it not. Thank you for the support.
That’s all I have to say for now, but I will see you soon. Be on the lookout for what is next.
- All the best
HJRC
I mean who needs “checks and balances” anyway? I’m referring to the conflict with Iran that had no congressional authority whatsoever.
For all the people groaning right now, I will still be doing strictly criminal justice on my other website.