Aug 20
CHANGE IS GOOD (I HOPE)
Posted by Dave in Stuff on 08 20th, 2007| | 2 Comments »

Today is the first day of school around here. But not for me.

For the first time since 1993, I’m not standing in a classroom this morning. Instead I’m in my office, practicing law.

It’s a strange sensation, not being there. But I like being here, too. So I’m content with my uncharacteristically bold move; I’m fairly risk averse, so changing careers in middle-age isn’t what the odds makers in Vegas had on the board for me.

I know all my friends and family out there are behind me 100% with their moral support. I can’t tell you how much that means to me.

But, seriously, if you really want to support me, get out there and find some deep-pocket defendant we can sue. If just a few of you will do that, then I can make an even better transition this time next year. To retirement.

What?

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Aug 13
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Posted by Dave in Quote of the Day on 08 13th, 2007| | 1 Comment »

This might even be a repeat, I can’t remember and I’m to lazy to go back and check. But I like it so much, I’m willing to risk repetitiveness:

“Giving power and money to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys”. 

                   — P.J. O’Rourke

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Aug 9
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Posted by Dave in Stuff on 08 9th, 2007| | 1 Comment »
When, I wonder, did we in America ever get into this idea that freedom means having no boundaries and no limits? I think it began on the 6th of August 1945 at 8:15 am when we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. … Somehow or other, from that day on in our American life, we say we want no limits and no boundaries.

                    — Bp. Fulton Sheen

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Aug 6
AP OR ONION?
Posted by Dave in AP or Onion? on 08 6th, 2007| | 1 Comment »
Yes, after a long hiatus, in which we sought spiritual guidance in Katmandu, it’s the return of:

AP OR ONION?

The non-prize-awarding gameshow in which you the reader determine if the headline is a legitimate (loosely speaking) one from the venerable Associated Press, or a spoof from the Internets’s leading fake-funny-news site, The Onion

Ready to play? Hands on Buzzers, annnnnnnnd it’s time to play . . . AP OR ONION?

Bloggers Consider Forming Labor Union


Is it . . . AP OR ONION?


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Any reproduction, retransmission, or rebroadcast of the accounts and/or descriptions of this game, without the expressed written consent of The Commissioner of Major League Baseball, is strictly prohibited.

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Aug 5
SPAWN OF HOMER
Posted by Dave in Stuff on 08 5th, 2007| | No Comments »

This is what I look like in the Simpsons Universe:

Spawn of Homer