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Archives for July 2011

Rio Grande Cafe: The Right Place for Lunch

It is hard for me to criticize the Rio Grande Cafe. The place has great food, great atmosphere, and generally good service. It has become my “go to” when nothing else will fit the bill for lunch. During my most recent trip over to Rio Grande, we arrived a little after the noon hour, and […]

Is this how they see Republicans? And how they see themselves?

I’m just sayin’…

“I have often wondered why economists, with these absurdities all around them, so easily adopt the view that men act rationally.”

“I have often wondered why economists, with these absurdities all around them, so easily adopt the view that men act rationally.  This may be because they study an economic system in which the discipline of the market ensures that, in a business setting, decisions are more or less rational.  The employee of a corporation who […]

When truth is stranger than fiction: a revenge plot foiled

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Or at least would make good fiction. Straight from the pages of the New York Times comes this story about rape, revenge, conspiracy, mistaken identity, and an innocent wrongly accused. It’s definitely good enough for an episode of Castle, if not for one of Dick Wolfe’s many iterations […]

Apparently, I need to misspel something.

Lincoln mashup?

Once again, Lowering the Bar takes the cake when it comes to finding, or making, fun in the legal world Sure, you could spend years actually developing a reputation for trustworthiness and plain-spoken honesty, or you could just Photoshop your head onto the body of somebody who’s already done that. This lawyer in the Philadelphia […]

Why don’t I have a Netflix account?

Oh, yeah. That’s why: