Rick Horowitz

A Bible student walks into a biker bar. Three-piece suit. Two pool cues. One unexpected trip to the ER. I thought God was sending me a message. Forty-three years later, I’m reconsidering. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/the-lord-w...

My Keurig handles percussion. I dance. The dogs expect treats. I tried to write a silly essay about this. Somehow Aristotle showed up. “Dancing with Dogs”—a coffee maker, a banana sticker, and questionable maturity. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/dancing-wi...

The mice ate the peanut butter. The traps stayed unsprung. Only I was triggered. A black cat, an eighteenth-century philosopher, and the household problem that became a new roof. “I Hates Mieces to Pieces!” coffeeandcorndog.com/p/i-hates-me...

At 53, I was having a heart attack. The ER doctor thought it was GERD. My mother knew enough to question him. Getting him to listen took something else. What It Takes to Be Heard coffeeandcorndog.com/p/what-it-ta...

My late father’s voice popped into my head while I washed dishes: “You need to start eating more chicken soup.” That sent me back to my journals, painful fishing trips, and something Dad eventually learned about teaching his sons. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/something-...

At my fifty-year reunion, I expected trouble recognizing my classmates. I didn’t expect trouble recognizing the person they remembered as me. The names hadn’t aged a bit. The faces — and my own story — took some work. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/where-ever...

My anthropology professor once wrote “I don’t believe you” in my journal. Years later, his referral helped connect my work in gang defense to an unexpected artistic collaboration.

I wrote a breakup poem about a girlfriend I didn’t have, got drunk with philosophers, and became a lawyer by accident. Choosing criminal defense as my practice area, though, was deliberate. At 68, I’m still trying to trace out and understand the connections.

A memory, a courtroom, a stock chart. Different starting points for questions about people, power, and what we think we understand. My three publications now have one directory, with a few essays to try: substack.rickhorowitz.com/p/my-writings

Apparently, D. Trump is admitting that his war with Iran is going so badly that he can no longer protect American cities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

At Trial Lawyers College, playing my father made me cry. Other exercises made me wonder what the hell I was doing there. I kept what helped — and changed how I talk with clients, right down to the furniture in my office. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/room-for-d...

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

I danced on a treadmill. Bunny cried. Nobody was looking—but that wasn’t really the problem. “I Am Not Rick”: a story about love, boundaries, and becoming a “we” without losing yourself. coffeeandcorndog.com/i-am-not-rick

I scanned decades of journals so I could search what I’d written. Then came the harder question: what about everything I never wrote down? A sixth-grade imaginary tree, Carl’s Jr., and the unfinished portrait of a life. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/imaginary-me

I've created a guide which is basically “here’s the most important stuff for you to read on my website if you have criminal defense problems.” And , the menu bar for every page on my website, right after “Home”, has “Start Here” as a top-level item. rhdefense.com/start-here-f...

More evidence that the gutting of unbiased media as well as the destruction of any semblance of gov't for the people (other than billionaire Trump donors) depends on Trump's/Todd Blanche's promises & power to hide Epstein files evidence of ugly and/or illegal acts by power players & their families.

Coming of age politically is supposed to be something you finish. I started at fourteen with a button and a campaign I couldn't vote in, and I'm still at it. 🔗 coffeeandcorndog.com/p/make-them-...

When I was 17, a year seemed almost impossibly long. Now I’m 68, and weeks vanish when I’m not looking. I started writing about my father and ended up with bicycles, William James, memory, rivers, rainbows, and the strange way time accelerates as we age. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/when-i-was...

What do stuffed rabbits, a 14th-century rabbi, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, Fiddler on the Roof, a misspelled wedding check, hobos, the Mafia, and criminal prosecutions have in common? coffeeandcorndog.com/p/to-the-moo...

Do tech companies have any actual human beings giving feedback on their product ideas?

This Week's Links: cops, Hell, fascists, and much more: maggiemcneill.com/2026/08/09/l... Courtesy @rhdefense.com @anarresansible.bsky.social @notjessewalker.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social @mikestabile.bsky.social @ishfery.bsky.social & @savannahsly.bskyverified.social

Every time I hear the word "amazing," I hear my dead father's voice finish the sentence for me. I don't know why. I just do. New essay at Coffee and a Corndog: coffeeandcorndog.com/not-even-on-...

A doc in 1937 gave children amphetamines because he guessed wrong about spinal fluid. A chemist in 1944 named a drug his wife, Rita. A third handed eleven kids coffee in 1973 and got laughed out of the literature. I've been drinking the coffee ever since. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/beverage-r...

Mars sued a woman for selling the green M&M rumor. Then went on TV in 1997 and sold it themselves. Which is how they killed it. Nobody has to whisper a thing that's already a commercial. coffeeandcorndog.com/p/feeling-a-...

Alan Greenspan died today at 100. For 20 years his words didn't describe the market — they moved it. He named the disease: "irrational exuberance." Then his most confident read blew up the world, and he couldn't tell until too late. None of us can. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-flinch...

We are not going to build AGI. Not because it's too hard — because we don't know how we became conscious ourselves, can't say it, can't show it, and can't even agree on what the word means. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/being-here

Try not to give any flies $300 billion on your way down from the podium

A suffix. An x-ray of a Baroque painting. A place name painted on the ground in Ajijic. A nearly erased Indigenous language. A machine that confabulates. And me, unfortunately, noticing that humans do it, too. Part I: The Tape is a Palimpsest readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-tape-i...

ABBY PHILLIP: “What about the law, Scott?” SCOTT JENNINGS: “What about it? Who cares?” 🤔 Refreshing honesty from the smuggest man in the world. The law does not matter to them.

Sometimes, I am almost too funny. Almost. Anyway, check it out to learn all about the relationship between pig intestines and stock market operators. While you're at it, please give my Substack Note a like. Consider subscribing for more insightful insights! substack.com/profile/4791...

The visible tool gets blamed. The screen. The algorithm. The platform. The AI. Harder question: who put it there, what were they trying to accomplish, and what work were they avoiding? The stove is not the menu. The screwdriver was never a hammer. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-screwd...

Yesterday I published my first-ever guest post, from The Harlequin Inquisitor. His article is fantastic, and it slotted perfectly between my The Traded Self and today’s article, Casting Shadows. It’s a THREE-FER and it’s also FREE-FER, y’all. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/casting-sh...

This morning, I did something I've never done before. I published an article by my first-ever-the-history-of-me-being-on-the-Internet Guest Poster. And this dude is at least 10x smarter than me! Come see why! readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-ghost-...

Kowalczyk came down Thursday. Seven justices, zero dissents, one foreclosed workaround. Trial courts can no longer use unaffordable bail as a backdoor detention order. I predicted this in the Daily Journal in January. Here is the analysis. substack.probablecause.media/p/kowalczyk-...

Damn. It's almost like the "christian" White Nationalist government hates women. Next, they'll be saying that women shouldn't vote.

New post on my Probable Cause Media Substack. substack.probablecause.media/p/the-case-o...

AI is not Zeus. It is not God. It is not mind. It is fire. And fire becomes dangerous when people forget it is only a tool. substack.probablecause.media/p/mythology-...

Your TV knows you're a trader. You didn't tell it. Every click, pause, and channel change is a transaction on a tape you didn't know existed. You're not reading the tape anymore. The tape is reading you. New on Reading the Tape: The Traded Self. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-traded...

My new Substack continues growing! Today, at Reading the Tape, I tackle the non-enigmatic question of why Trump has so badly fucked up the U.S. — and now world — security and economy. Short answer: he was born to it. Longer answer: Click the link. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-liquid...

New post at ReadingTheTape.RickHorowitz.com. readingthetape.rickhorowitz.com/p/the-kid-wh...

I usually advise my clients not to advertise their war crimes. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/i...

A new milestone has been reached over at my personal Substack: Reading the Tape. Check it out! Look at an article or two (or three)! Subscribe or Like. I respond to every comment and I don't know why, but I really love the support of people giving the thumbs up! ;) substack.com/profile/4791...