Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My dream: Me: Jump! Others in my household: How high? My reality: Me: Jump! Others in my household: I can’t hear you. Okay, I heard you, but why should I jump just because you told me to? I don’t want to jump. Jumping is stupid. I hate it when you
Continue readingOne of Tom Lehrer’s more bizarre songs was an early ditty called “My Home Town,” in which he sang rhapsodically about all the bizarre and criminal behavior exhibited by his town’s denizens: I really have a yen To go back once again, Back to the place where no one wears
Continue readingI got this one in an email and laughed so hard I choked. So, for Sunday frivolity, I’m passing it on to you: 1- Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side
Continue readingWhen you read the title of this post, I hope you heard Ah-nuld’s voice echoing in your ears. I really wanted to blog today, but was so busy, it just didn’t happen. There was a lot of getting kids here and there, plus interminable errand running. The single bright spot
Continue readingIndescribably stupid. I admit to going in with a bias, since I don’t like either Spielberg or Lucas movies but even Mr. Bookworm, a fan of both men’s work, thought it was a bad movie. Save your money. If you want to see it, wait until the DVD comes out.
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Continue readingJohn McCain threw Hagee under the bus today, which was either (a) politically wise or (b) a disgraceful bit of pandering, not even to his own base, but to the New York Times and Co. (and, yes, I know that his desire to placate the NYT is a problem, but
Continue readingPeople joke about the fact that lawyer’s “briefs” are so long. It is a good joke, but it misses the whole point of a true legal brief, which is to consolidate vast amounts of information culled from disparate sources into a single, coherent, lucid document. It’s very difficult to do
Continue readingI went to law school in the days when students still took notes by hand. When I started practicing law, secretaries had computers at their desks, but no lawyers did. My first law firm used a “Wang” word processing system, which was really nothing more than a typewriter on the
Continue readingAnn Coulter’s column today deals with the still echoing liberal shrieks about Bush’s speech to the Knesset. It’s an okay column with one stellar paragraph: Liberals think all real tyrants ended with Hitler and act as if they would have known all along not to appease him. Next time is
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Continue readingAs many of you have noticed, completely innocuous comments keep ending up in moderation, and then hang around there until I’m available to release them. I’ve just tried a new setting at WordPress, though, which might resolve the situation. However, before it does that, it might trap a few more
Continue readingMy son came home sick from school, so all my plans for hard work and intermittent blogging have been turned on their head. I’m trying to work in five minute intervals (so I can check on him regularly), since I’m on deadline, but I’m not optimistic about getting my work
Continue readingI can’t decide if the following is a wonderful or a horrible sentence: The City’s argument is a fine polysyllogism, with flawlessly connected episyllogisms, but its initial premise is flawed. From Blasland, Bouck & Lee v. City of N. Miami, 283 F.3d 1286 (11th Cir. 2002). I am, as you
Continue readingJust as we’re winning (h/t Dan Best), Obama wants to ensure that we lose.
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