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Bad Jokes

October 23, 2004 by Dave!

After looking over the comments on the joke thread at Defective Yeti, here are a few of my favorites:

    Q: What did the perverted frog say?
    A: Rubbit.
    Q: What do you call a Polish astronomer?
    A: Copernicus.
    Q. Why can’t the Buddha vacuum in the corner?
    A. Because he has no attatchments.
    Buddha walks into a pizza joint and says, “Make me one with everything.”
    The cashier says, “That’ll be $9.50.”
    Buddha hands him a ten. Waits. Waits. He says, “Where’s my change?”
    The cashier replies, “Change must come from within.”
    Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.
    He gasps, “My friend is dead! What can I do?”
    The operator says, “Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”
    There is a silence, then a gunshot.
    Back on the phone, the guy says, “OK, now what?”
    A traveller in America from Mexico needs some socks, but he speaks no English. So he finds a department store and walks up to a salesperson. The salesperson says, “May I help you?”
    He replies, “No hablo ingles.”
    The salesperson says, “Oh, okay, I’ll hold up things and you tell me if that’s what you want.”
    They pick up a shirt.
    “No.”
    They hold up some pants.
    “No.”
    They hold up a tie.
    “No, no.”
    Finally, they hold up some socks.
    “?Eso, si que es!”
    “Well, if you knew how to spell it… “

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Filed Under: Humor, Personal Tagged With: humor

Pirates and Emperors

October 21, 2004 by Dave!

Here’s a pretty cute and well done animated piece called Pirates and Emperors that illustrated the critical difference between small time thuggery and large scale empire building (read: not much).
[Courtesy ambivalent imbroglio]

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business politics

Careers in Law

October 16, 2004 by Dave!

Evan Schaeffer over at Notes from the (Legal) Underground has a very excellent piece today about lawyers and careers.

As a self-styled entrepreneur myself, I’ve wondered what I would end up doing after law school. I don’t necessarily see myself working for a big firm, although I don’t rule anything out. I think, and I hope, that law school actually furthers my entrepreneurial spirit, and allows me to continue to do my think in my way, only with a little more experience and an edge against the competition. Time will tell.

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Jon Stewart: American Hero

October 16, 2004 by Dave!

I’m sure that everyone has seen this or a reference to it someplace, but I wouldn’t be a good blogger if I didn’t pick up the meme and run with it.

Jon Stewart was on Crossfire the yesterday, and he ripped Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala new ones… it was pretty sweet. My favorite sound bite:

CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.

STEWART: You need to go to one.

Check it out:

  • Wonkette
  • Salon
  • The CNN Transcript
  • Watch it on iFilm

What more reason do you need to love The Daily Show?

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Robbie Fulks

October 16, 2004 by Dave!

You just have to love Robbie Fulks:

“Every different kind of professional entertainer is ultimately the same kind: a stripper. You rev up the fake fun machine night after night, you lay yourself before an endless, asinine parade of driveling half-wit fans, excelled in their native loathsomeness only by the crooked promoters, managerial slime, hired muscle, simpering ultramontanists, magazine writers, and miscellaneous nocturnal fauna that surround you constantly in your offstage hours, and soon the world begins to take on a dismal cast indeed. In fairness, though, it must be stipulated that going around the country as a stripper or a second-rate BTO act is not the best way to meet interesting people while preserving your idealism.”

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Shirts for the Law Student in Your Life

October 14, 2004 by Dave!

I saw a link to these shirts from LawSchoolStuff.com on another Blawg. (AI? In Limine? I don’t recall.) And some of them are hillarious. I’m particularly partial to “Working Hard to be Average”.

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Filed Under: Law, Law School, School Tagged With: law school

Torts

October 13, 2004 by Dave!

I swear. Railroad crossings. Railroad turn tables. Cattle guards. Platforms. Sleeper cars. Switchbacks. Trespassers. If I read another case about some railroad related accident, I’m gonna puke. Torts should be called “Railroad Accident Liability”.

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Filed Under: Law, Law School, School Tagged With: law school

George Bush: Pro-life and killin’ more babies than ever!

October 13, 2004 by Dave!

I’m not exactly pro-choice and I’m not exactly pro-life. I’m one of the vast “middle grounders” out there in America, who are just kind of sick about the whole thing because it’s an un-resolvable issue. I believe:

1. Women have to carry babies and often they bear the greatest burden raising children, so who am I to force a woman to have a baby she does not want or cannot afford?
2. Adoption is a great thing, and I would certainly encourage anyone I knew who was pregnant but did not want the baby to consider it. There are a lot of good people who want children and can’t have them.
3. I think abortion is killing. But there’s all kinds of *justified* killing in our world: war, self-defense, accidents.

Just because it’s taking a life and *I* think it’s morally wrong doesn’t mean that I should hold everyone else to my moral standard. I think war is wrong. I think capital punishment is wrong. Obviously, I’m not doing to well on the fight to end those either.

I bring this all up because I often hear self-proclaimed “pro-life activists” say that they are voting for Bush, based on that one position alone. But tonight Rain Man posed a very interesting essay by a Christian ethicist, entitled Pro-life? Look at the Fruits which quotes some interesting statistics that show that under the Bush administration, in spite of “faith based initiatives” abortions have actually increased. Why? The economy. It’s certainly worth considering. If you really want to make abortion your issue, as the article claims, it is not just a moral issue separate from the candidates other policies.

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Me. Me. Meme.

October 11, 2004 by Dave!

Age: 30 Somthing.
Band listening to right now: None.
Career in future: Law … talkin’ … guy.
Dad’s name: David.
Easiest person to talk to: Kristyna.
Favorite song at the moment: Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse).
Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: Bears – Soaked in Rum.
Hometown: Lay-Flat, Indiana.
Instruments Violin=, once upon a time. Bass.
Kids: Not Yet.
Longest car ride ever: Indiana to California.
Mom’s name: Anne.
Number of siblings: Two.
Phobia[s]: Heights.
Quote (Favorite): Those who abandon their dreams will discourage yours.
Reason to smile: It will all be over soon.
Song you sang last: Ocean Breathes Salty
Time you wake up: Too early.
Unknown fact about me: Wouldn’t you like to know.
Vegetable you hate: Brussel sprouts.
Worst habit: Workaholic.
X-rays you’ve had: Dental, chest, c-spine, c/t scans
Yummy food: Sushi!
Zodiac sign: Aries.
[Courtesy Amy]

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Let’s do the numbers!

October 7, 2004 by Dave!

There are 168 hours in a week. In any given week, I generally spend 40 hours a week at work. That’s not always the case, sometimes it’s more, especially lately, but I’m supposed to work a 40 hour week. I’m going to be generous, and say that I get 8 hours of sleep per night. This is a compete fallacy, I usually get 6 if I’m lucky, but lets suppose I’m getting the U.S. RDA of sleep. I also have to get ready for work in the morning and ready for bed at night. It does take me at least a half hour to get ready in the morning, less at night, but I’m going to give myself an hour a day for hygiene: 7 hours per week. I also have to get to work and class and home. I have a pretty short commute, all said. But it’s still probably amounts (total) to about an hour each day between work-class-home, so that’s 5 hours per week. I’m in class 12 hours each week. Gotta be there, all my professors take attendance. Not that I could skip and keep up anyway. If we use the “standard” ratio of three hours studying for each one in class, oh hell, who am I kidding; let’s go with two hours studying for each one in class: 24 hours per week. That leaves me with exactly 24 hours left in each week. 24 hours. One day. In that day I have to run any errands I need to spend time with my wife, see my friends, run any errands I need to get done, play with my cats and finally, engage in hobbies (yeah, right). Is it any wonder I feel like I’m always rushing?

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