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 […]
Random number generators and cable news commentators
May 27, 2011 by
The source of all those exit polls, hot air, statistics, and prognosticators fodder… xkcd: Sports. See also “Mark Twain.” (“There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics.”)
Grintegrity: Learn it. Know it. See it.
May 9, 2011 by
Nation–do you know grintegrity when you see it? Grintegrity: expressing joy while reporting on the misfortune of others. We (my Better Half and I) thought it was just another funny moment on the Colbert Report—Stephen Colbert making fun of talking heads who seemed to rejoice at the problems President Obama is facing with high gas […]
Mitt Romney has an Onion problem.
April 21, 2011 by
Mitt Romney, candidate for President, is often accused of having a “healthcare” problem. The latest media outlet to question his healthcare policies while he was governor of Massachusetts is the Onion. In an interview there, he said he was sorry. “Every day I am haunted by the fact that I gave impoverished Massachusetts citizens a […]
Suggestions for a new blog title?
April 20, 2011 by
I’m thinking about changing the title to the blog. It’s no longer focused solely on my experience of becoming a lawyer in the immediate aftermath of law school and the bar, but has shifted to books, politics and other sundry items. What do you suggest? 10 points to the best recommendations, and 15 for snarky […]
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