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Randomness on a Tuesday ( Read more... )

I told my buddy James about Friday's incident over IM. This was his response:

"This guy is an idiot. I haven't even read the story yet, I'm just looking at his picture."

http://www.missouri.edu/~physwww/people/peterson.jpg

-I- didn't say it.

So Bush has appointed a white male who is referred to in conservative circles as a Scalia clone to the SCOTUS, has he? Interesting and not at all unexpected. However you look at it, though, I think that the defining reason to not back this particular appointment comes from a poster on the fark.com forums ( Read more... )

I decide to be a decent student today and, therefore, set out to read my assignment for Employee Benefits. I open to page 376 and begin reading. This is the first sentence of Chapter 5: Fiduciary Duties and Prohibited Transactions ( Read more... )

In the tradition of the randomness of everyone else's recent posts, here's some random crap of mine ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, cue the freaking locusts ( Read more... )

CNN.com ran this picture today of John Roberts getting out of his vehicle. The caption was "Roberts gets out of his minivan near his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, today."

I don't know what is more absurd: that the potential chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America drives a minivan or lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Always, always, always proofread anything that leaves your office with your name on it. Always. Even if it's just a simple motion for continuance because you've had surgery on a bulging disk in your neck, always proofread it ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how I did it; really, I'm not. But I managed to make it through the events of this past week or so without really letting it sink in, without letting it register. On 9/11, it was easy to get a grasp on the toll, on the pain this was causing, on the desperate situation, because there was a fire and a collapse. Sudden, quick emergency ( Read more... )