[Antonello]

Pennock's throw-away line about a Matrix hypothesis, which he may have intended as a bit of humor, does not help his argument; especially in a bench trial.

To quote someone: It was a joke, and everyone in the courtroom would have recognized it as that. There is some humor expressed on occasion in even the most serious of trials.

[connectthedots]

That did occur to me right after I made that last post. Touche