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Work e-mails I've answered today: four. Work phone calls I received today: three. Total time: about forty-five minutes to an hour. Dollars I'll receive for this: 0 ( Read more... )

So Hilary Clinton thinks she's like Rocky, eh?

Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the 1976 Oscar-winning film "Rocky," Clinton said that ending her presidential campaign now would be as if "Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum steps and said, 'Well, I guess that's about far enough ( Read more... )

So, when I was younger, I really liked Billy Joel. I'm talking like ages 3-12. I still think he a has a lot of good songs, and even though it's a cliche, a lot of his "early stuff" is really quite good. When I hit adolescence, however, I began to realize that a lot of his stuff is basically bar-music for baby boomers. I mean, it's all still really ( Read more... )

Barack Hussein Obama doesn't understand that we in the West are locked in Manichean Us vs Them struggle against IslamoNaziFascistCommieLudditeVeganScenester Forces of Evil! In fact, just today another Middle Easterner threatened to unleash a "holocaust" against an entire nation. We must not waver in our dedication to smoke out these evil doers and ( Read more... )

I'm just going to quote Dahlia Lithwick here and recommend that everyone go read it. I'm not a big fan of Slate, but she does yeoman work.

This is not simply the theory of a unitary executive at work; this isn't the notion that the president makes the law, and acts of Congress are legal elevator music. This vision of executive power is that the ( Read more... )

Reviewing my course reading for tomorrow, I just overheard the following from one of my douchebag classmates ( Read more... )

You Are 8% Stereotypically Gay

You're not gay, or if you are nobody knows. You don't act in a stereotypically gay manner at all. You wouldn't set off anybody's gaydar. Bask in your un-gayness!

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Apparently, the 8% comes from the fact that I know what a duvet is. And I thought I knew what a duvet is ( Read more... )

I'm very tired at the moment. I used to think people who complained about their law school finals were whiners. Well, now I know it's fucking exhausting. For reals. I am very surprised I am not very sick right now ( Read more... )

JERUSALEM -- In unusually frank comments, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published Thursday that "the state of Israel is finished" unless a Palestinian nation is created, saying the alternative is a South African-style apartheid struggle.Detroit Free Press article here: Read more... )