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  • Despite the fact that I catagorically refuse to practice MedMal/Personal Injury, this shirt cracks me up. I want it really badly!: This one too!!!:

  • Alexander Cockburn on peaceniks for Kerry: [V]oting for John Kerry now is like voting for LBJ in 1964 with full precognition of what he was going to do in Vietnam for the next four years. By all means vote for the guy i…

  • Oh honestly Sandra... Associated Press: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor extolled Wednesday the growing role of international law in U.S. courts, saying judges would be negligent if they disregarded its importance in a post…

  • The aria sinking, All else continuing, the stars shining, The winds blowing, the notes of the bird continuous echoing, With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning, On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray a…

  • Anyone have any ideas as to which law firms I should apply? I already have a list but I'd love suggestions/comments.

  • I hereby decree: My contracts professor is not allowed to talk about New York bondage clubs.My contracts professor is not allowed to talk about New York bondage clubs.My contracts professor is not allowed to talk about …

  • The New York Times (10/26, Bumiller) reports President Bush "said in an interview this past weekend that he disagreed with the Republican Party platform opposing civil unions of same-sex couples and that the matter shoul…

  • So I guess it's time to refine my original prediction on the election. I really expected the number to change in these last two weeks and for things to solidify. As they haven't, I'm being forced to choose a much narrowe…

  • Note to self: The heart may freeze or it can burnThe pain will ease if I can learnThere is no futureThere is no pastI live this moment as my lastThere's only usThere's only thisForget regretOr life is yours to missNo ot…

  • This cracks me up.

  • If This Be Hope, Color Me Hopeless Timothy Garton Ash, historian of Central Europe's liberation and (like me) an increasingly pessimistic Atlanticist, has written an interesting Washington Post op-ed arguing that a se…

  • No One in ChargeRussell Roberts Here's an AP story with my favorite explanation for the flu vaccine crisis: The heart of the problem, experts say, may be that no one person or agency is truly in charge of making sure …

  • OMG. Go freakin' read this: Brain cells from rats hooked up to a computer and flying a F-22: http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2004news/braindish.htm

  • Yea! Netflix just lowered their prices. w00t!

  • If you're John Forbes Kerry, you know you're in trouble when... ... it's just days before the election ... you plan a rally at a (gay) Discotheque ... in Miami Beach, FL ... CHER is your headliner and ... less than …

  • The unexamined belief that an ever-higher rate of voter registration is a Good Thing has met its limit in the center of the state that this year is the center of the political universe -- Ohio. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2…

  • Many of the governmental edicts, in any case, are pseudo laws, rules that are annoying mainly because government has accrued to itself the sole, monopolistic authority to impose them on us—e.g., that first class mail mus…

  • Is This a Wealthy Society or What?!Don Boudreaux NPR’s All Things Considered today reports on yoga classes for dogs – “doga.”

  • The night of shining light long overdue Mussing hair with an Autumn breeze Manumitting solitude A suitable shroud for my spirit Lacking other comforts, I embrace it Wrapping it around me A return of normalcy …

  • Geek Pick-up Lines 11. Tell me of this thing you humans call *dramatic pause* love. 10. If you turn me down now, I will become more drunk than you can possibly imagine. 9. They don't call me Bones b…

  • Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd;Storm'd at with shot and shell,Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. …

  • Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius: Today we salute you, Mr. Constant Collar Putter Upper. You, bedecked in popped collar, teach us that we no longer have to live with a cold back of the neck. Sure, your Pink alligat…

  • It's too late to escape the rise of eliminationist fantasies! I can almost hear them now, the horrid marching slogans of the sinister Blogfuhrer's pseudofascist one-party pseudolibertarianism.... "Ein volk, Ayn Rand, E…

  • If you haven't seen Triumph the Insult Comic Dog clip after the 3rd debate in Spin Alley, you must go see it... search on line or contact me for a link!

  • There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort. -- Mark Twain Virgo (August 23 - September 22) You'll be feeling tired and disc…

  • Not that I actively encourage not performing one's civic duty but... Don't VoteIt makes more sense to play the lottery.By Steven E. LandsburgPosted Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004, at 8:58 AM PT We might be hea…

  • Empty and Emptier Posted by: McQ Who are these guys from the left who would be President and Vice President? And why, based on their record, should anyone really want them in those positions.Take J…

  • JEFF GOLDSTEIN: "...some of the lefty sites are urging their readers to spam the online polls - and then are reporting breathlessly on those very spammed poll results to "prove" a sizeable Kerry victory. Which is a lot l…

  • An older essay by Edward Feser presents some of the central arguments for the libertarian philosophy of government. His point are, I think, worth passing on: The utilitarian argument, the suggestion that a free market…

  • If you want the best summation of last nights debate, click here and enjoy the mirth.

  • Be afraid... be very afraid... DOJ wants broader powers in anti-piracy fight Russell Adkins at 9:38 PM In a report released Tuesday, Justice Department officials endorsed a pair of controversial bills favored by …

  • I'm so seeing this movie this weekend... who's going to watch it with me??? Salon Interviews Team America's Auteurs Salon does a pre-release Team America q&a with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Some snippets: Do yo…

  • OFAC You Smoke a cigar containing Cuban tobacco in Mexico, go to American jail. That's the new rule handed down by the odiously-but-accurately named Office of Foreign Assets Control, the freedom-abroad-limiting wing …

  • Iraqi Terrorist in Nashville: Update Today's Tennessean has more information about the would-be Iraqi terrorist nabbed in Nashville last week. A former fish cutter from Nasiriyah, Ahmed Al-Uqaily, 33, drove around t…

  • And when doing stories about young people who are worried about being forced into government service, the Denver and national media should have pointed out that John Kerry is the only candidate who has proposed such coer…

  • I cannot express how bad of an idea this would be: GLOBAL TAX OPTIONS PRESENTED TO FINANCE DEVELOPMENT AID Taxing financial transactions and arms sales were among the options presented in a key report recently released…

  • Father of Deconstructionism Dies, If 'Death' Means Anything by '); document.write('Scott Ott'); // --> Scott Ott (2004-10-10) -- French President Jacques Chirac announced today that Jacques Derrida, the fat…

  • If you love me, you'll go read this essay. It kicks major ass. As a teaser: "You can offer a carrot. Not everybody likes carrots. Some people may hate your carrot. Your carrot may offend people who worship the rutabaga…

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