I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to claim succession to the role of the late and much-lamented A. G. Linkletter, a hero of my childhood so long ago. But reviewing the activities of the self-representeds as they navigate the straits of The Glasshouse in the City of the Ongoing Purges is a strong temptation.

Gary L. Macintosh & Joanne Macintosh, et al., Docket Nos. 10864-23, 3218-25, and 3219-25, filed 3/13/25 (and I cite all three docket numbers because they play roles here) seem to be enmeshed in the toils of DAWSON, causing Ch J Kathleen (“TBS = The Big Shillelagh”) Kerrigan to beg the Macintoshes to cease their electronic bombardment.

The Macintoshes started on paper, and their petition is on for trial on St. Patrick’s Day under the first hereinabove set forth docket number, as my high-priced colleagues would say. But the Macintoshes have exhibits and status.

“… without first having properly requested and received eAccess to their case at Docket No. 10864-23, petitioners apparently twice attempted to electronically file documents pertaining to their upcoming trial. As a result, petitioners inadvertently commenced two additional cases at Docket Nos. 3218-25 and 3219-25.” Order, at p. 1.

So Ch J TBS tells Ch Clk Charles (“Champagne Charlie”) Jeane to have his hardlaboring crew transplant the two errant cases as trial exhibits and a status report in the single surviving docket, and close the two outliers.

A docket search shows that the Macintoshes may have paid sixty Georges for each of their miscues. Do they get a refund?

Once again, I suggest that we really need another Tax Court Judicial Conference, just to sit around and swap war stories. Perhaps Ch J-elect Patrick J. (“Scholar Pat”) Urda might wish to consider complying with the Congressional mandate in Section 7470A by convoking one when he takes office.

I’ll preregister right now.