FWIW, I had a newborn child when I was writing this. He was colicky and would wake and cry if I put him down. So I wrote a lot of this with a slumbering baby on my chest.
He is now in his thirties, a Columbia law school graduate, and clerks for the last liberal justice in the Fifth Federal Circuit (governing Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi) where he spends much of his time writing dissenting opinions to decisions by the most conservative federal court in the natiion.