Month: January 2006

It may come in handy someday.

Take this portrait of a young lawyer as a lesson — lawyers do not all lead glamorous lives, wear thousand-dollar suits, have encyclopedic knowledge of the law and everything else, and drive Mercedes-Benzes. The article describes a guy on the… Continue Reading →

“It’ll be like Friends meets Friends, after Joey, starring all the same people with all the same characters!” As if we needed more proof that there are no new ideas in Hollywood. And you and I are going to watch… Continue Reading →

Well, I predicted that Denver would squeak by Pittsburgh; that didn’t happen as the Steelers dominated this afternoon. As I write, Seattle has gone up 34-7 over Carolina, fulfilling the other half of my prophecy. The Seahawks are amazingly dominant… Continue Reading →

…when you’ve just had to pull the dog out from sticking her face in the kitty litter box. Doesn’t matter how cute the dog is. Yuck.

Back in Los Angeles, I enjoyed listening to Kevin and Bean on KROQ. It was there that I first learned the phrase “struggle.” When used in the present (or near-past) tense, to describe the behavior of a person, the word… Continue Reading →

Thursday afternoon, the Department of Justice transmitted a white paper to Congress offering the Administration’s legal defense of the domestic surveillance program which turned this nominal Republican away from supporting the President. The title link goes to the white paper… Continue Reading →

Today, a state court judge in Baltimore ruled that Maryland’s statutory ban on same-sex marriages served no legitimate state interest. The opinion is not yet up on the Baltimore City Circuit Court website, but the link should go to it;… Continue Reading →

Tonight was the ceremony for The Wife’s paralegal certification class. The picture to the right is The Wife standing with a few of her fellow graduates (that’s our friend Sharon, another graduate, to The Wife’s right) at the ceremony. She… Continue Reading →