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• Jack Thompson is so disbarred, he’s not even allowed to approach the bench at a picnic table
• Jack Thompson is so disbarred he can’t even play contract bridge.
• Jack Thompson is so disbarred he can’t even practice the law of gravity.
• Jack Thompson is so disbarred, his porn ( Read more... )

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“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” should really end with the Devil laughing: “I have your soul anyway, for the mortal sin of Pride! Now take your shiny thing, stupid American!”

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When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she (allegedly) attempted to get books she didn’t approve of out of the public library. This is scary. Are free speech organizations like the CBLDF and the First Amendment Project going to take this issue on?

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Yes, I did resign today. No, I didn’t run in there and go “ZOMG THIS PLACE IS EVIL” - I told them I was going back to school, which is true, I just had been planning to stay another couple months.

All my supervisors and coworkers have been thoroughly decent, which is why I ( Read more... )

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Today, I’m putting in my two weeks notice at my job.

I think the assault may have had something to do with it. Not alone, not by itself, but as a last straw, a kick in the pants.

There was an old Asian couple at the baccarat table. They were fighting. She slaps him.

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This right here is why I don’t give a rat’s ass what other countries think about our politics.


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WoW Insider asks, “If you were an NPC, what quests would you give?”

Quest 1: Estra’gorn Longthwaite asks “Goddo is coming?” and gives you the quest “Waiting for Goddo” which has quest text that mentions another nearby NPC Vladimir De’Lay who you notice has a completed quest ( Read more... )

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A sentence I never expected to use: James Lileks is blogging about Boswell’s London Journal:

Oh, I love that. Not just because Boswell was 22, full of vim and pretense and hungry for fame, but because it’s obvious he poured himself a tall glass of port and set to writing ( Read more... )