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Month: September 2010

Good Message, Good News

September 30, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Dexter McCluster, an early prospect for NFL rookie of the year, is to be praised for offering his time and his new-found fame to get the word out in this PSA: I heartily agree with the message, even if laws… Continue Reading →

Music, Sports

Probate to Pangloss

September 30, 2010Burt Likko

My firm’s probate practice requires us to frequently deal with people who are facing death. Sometimes it’s their own, sometimes it’s a loved one’s; sometimes the death is in the future and sometimes it is in the immediate past. One… Continue Reading →

Death, Ethics and Morality, History, Philosophy

Seventeen Penalties

September 28, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Turns out, when you spot the home team 152 yards on seventeen different penalties, it’s quite difficult to win a professional football game. Hopefully Green Bay can remember this interesting statistical factoid next week. Chicago, not Green Bay, joins the… Continue Reading →

Sports

Seriously Are Barrels Ever This Long?

September 28, 2010Burt Likko 4 Comments

I understand the need for a graphic to represent the hot-button issue. But I can’t recall ever seeing a barrel of a handgun long enough to do this:

Guns and Ammo

An Analogy

September 25, 2010Burt Likko 3 Comments

Rolling Stones : INXS :: Beatles : ??? I said “U2.” Is there a better answer? Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.0

Music

Rally To Restore Sanity

September 24, 2010Burt Likko

Allow me to heartily, politely, and respectfully endorse this upcoming rally in Washington D.C.  If I happen to be there for some reason on October 30, 2010, I’ll be the one carrying this sign: Of course, if I’ve no other… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, Link Love, Unimportant but Mildly Amusing

New And Improved Ought To Mean Something More Than A New Label On An Old Product

September 23, 2010Burt Likko

The GOP “Pledge to America” released this morning at first glance looks like it has two main parts — repeal Obamacare, and NOT to do a bunch of other stuff, most of which amounts to promising not to raise a… Continue Reading →

2010 elections, Domestic Politics, Republican Reboot

This Is A Pleasant Fiction, Isn’t it?

September 22, 2010Burt Likko

A “myth,” as I have tried to consistently use the term, is a story with powerful emotional or social resonance, and for which the objective truth of its content is irrelevant and generally questionable.  President Obama recited a myth the… Continue Reading →

History

Politics Disgusts Me Sometimes

September 21, 2010Burt Likko 7 Comments

Really? Filibustering the defense appropriations act so that we can “study” (read: delay) repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” instead of just repealing it now and accepting the inevitable? I’ve not known anyone in the military who didn’t know full well… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics

Angels And Kiwis: A Little Help Please

September 21, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

I’ve never seen an angel. I have seen pictures of angels in art, but not an actual entity that matches or even approximates the description of angels in art and myth. I know people who claim to have seen and… Continue Reading →

Philosophy

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