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A hilarious rant about an indefinite article.
July 2008 Archives
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Don't know how that happened, but this is the real story about that whole honeytrap thing.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. This could have been right out of a John Le Carre novel.
LOL Cats meet Battlestar Galactica:
I wonder how large the overlapping set of Battlestar Galactica and LOLCats fans are.....-
I suspect, though, that he gets the cause/effect bit at the bottom of the page reversed.
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The humble hamburger invades Paris: "The burger has become gastronomic."
The Post writes that divorces among the banking set are skyrocketing as bankers and other Wall Street types get laid off. Rich times for divorce lawyers, who, I’m sure, are fattening their rolodexes as I type.
As Gothamist writes, however, “it’s hard to feel that much sympathy when the cautionary tales are about people who make more than $1 million a year and are fighting over Hamptons rentals, expensive summer camps for kids, and shopping sprees.”
A few things that are interesting:
- In one of graphics that the Post uses to illustrate their story, it’s always the wife (who seems to be the “stay-at-home” type) who initiates divorce proceedings, which, to me, maybe seems a little misogynistic.
- On the other hand, that’s the narrative thread that makes sense—after all, it doesn’t track that someone who has just been fired would want to then go out and create more instability in their life.
- Assuming that the driving force behind the spike in divorces is, in fact, women who are leaving suddenly unemployed husbands, I have to ask—what are these women thinking (assuming, as the underlying narrative suggests, that the prime motive force is economic)? If they’re leaving their husbands because their husbands can no longer support them in the manner to which they have become accustomed, then how are they themselves going to support themselves in the manner in which they have become accustomed? Not to be cynical about it or anything, but it seems highly improbable that there are a ton of high-paying jobs out there for someone with a 10-to-20 year gap in their resume. And while they may get some capital in the divorce settlement, the idea that they’ll be able to live off of alimony (notwithstanding the recent trend to move away from permanent alimony, anyway) from someone who’s unemployed seems far-fetched.
Now maybe I’m judging things too harshly; perhaps these marriages were broken before the bread-winners got fired laid-off. But if the relationships were fundamentally broken before, then that means that the only glue holding these people together was money. And staying in a marriage for the money alone….
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America is now culturally obsolete.
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This might be the most meta musical ever.
For the defense lawyer in your life with a slightly twisted sense of humor: Defense Lawyer t-shirts.
They’re also good for non-lawyers prone to recidivism: the “I want to talk to my lawyer” and “I did not consent to a search” shirts save everyone time and effort when invoking their constitutional rights.
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This is slightly scary.
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"Every day you drive on the freeway, you're not climbing Mount Everest."
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One of the best bi-modal (i.e. non-gaussian) graphs you'll ever see. Unfortunately, it happens to describe starting salaries in the legal profession...
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One-day jury trials? Well, every little bit helps....
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How to escape from a courthouse if you're a celebrity. If it were me, I'd ask if there were any side exits....
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I'm wondering what the cause of action here would be....
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For future reference--the perfect chocolate chip cookie?
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Looks like the new CitiField will have lots of yummy food distractions if the Mets are stinking it up, including a Blue Smoke and a Shake Shack....
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Plaintiff has a great deal to say/But it seems he skipped Rule 8(a)./His Complaint is too long/ Which renders it wrong/Please rewrite and refile today.
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Great photo essay.
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Joi Ito on the Global Voices summit.
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RMacK on the GV Summit. Both worth a read.
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Ethan's notes on the GV Summit.
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Oh, the huge manatee!
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But now that Avalanche owners pay more than $100 per tank, the club is lucky to attract 10 members once every two months . . . . "Everybody’s trying to save money on gas, so now we mostly chat online instead of driving," Mr. Tolliver said.
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Among recent buyers: “four guys from Finland” who wound up buying a one-bedroom apartment for roughly 360,000 euros ($560,000) while on vacation. “They saw the sign,” he says, “and two days later they’d talked themselves into buying a condo.
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This is a wonderful little piece about how the authors' two sons obsessed with the subway: "the other passengers . . . gave me warm smiles. I guess they hadn’t seen that many 3-year-olds sobbing, “Local…I want the local." The pictures are cute overl
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Sometimes judges do really stupid things.
Fans of the movie WALL•E (and really, if you haven’t seen it yet, go see it—it’s the best movie I’ve seen so far this year and may very well be the best movie of the year) will get a kick out of the official corporate website for the conglomerate Buy n Large.
Among the many little bits buried in the site are a privacy policy that lays claim to your soul; a ‘news story’ that sees anti-capitalist demonstrations as marketing opportunities; a shopping drug with side effects that include “an inclination to read the works of Leon Trotsky”; a story that plugs a minor plot hole in WALL•E itself; and much much more.
Check it out.
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It basically covers the foods of the ethnic minorities of China.
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More on London.
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"If I was going to write a song like that, the first line would go: 'When did Halliburton’s advancement of its own enterprise become the sole focus of the foreign policy of the United States?'"
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Some interesting observations about the majority opinion in Heller.