Who doesn’t like The Onion? People who can’t take a joke, that’s who! Well, there’s also the people who have been fooled into thinking it’s a real newspaper. They don’t like it much, but then, they also think The Colbert… Continue Reading
Lawyers in Tennessee are not the best employers. The Wife was summarily fired Monday, and was told only “We’re not going in the right direction” after having received erratic instruction and minimal personal feedback during her five week stint. Similar… Continue Reading
Curtis Gokey is employed by the city of Lodi (California) as a dump truck driver. He accidentally negligently drove his dump truck into a private vehicle. A private vehicle, that is, owned by one Curtis Gokey. So, Gokey filed a… Continue Reading
Last Sunday, at the RET book club meeting, we had a chance to learn from one of the members about one of the projects that he is working on at ORNL. It involves drilling into oil shale, dropping large heating… Continue Reading
I finally found a straightforward definition of an “acre.” Dealing with real property as often as lawyers do, you would think I would have thought to have looked this up before — or at least got it clear in my… Continue Reading
Sic transit gloria. Chef, we hardly knew ye. (But the wommens sure did!) It’s astonishing to me that South Park has lasted as long as it has. That the writers continue to find things to parody is not a surprise.… Continue Reading
It is considered bad form to speak ill of the recently dead. If I am to observe that convention, then I have nothing at all to say about this story.
Most people have Googled themselves. When I did this, I found out I was a professor of classical studies at a major public university in the midwest, focusing my studies on critical analysis of Roman and Greek rhetoric. News to… Continue Reading
You never know what kind of trouble dating is going to get you into. Especially if, like this , you are wanted in four states and start dating someone who works AT THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE.
Well, when a significant fraction of Americans think that the First Amendment guarantees their right to own pets, it’s hardly surprising that crass opportunists don’t mind risking permanently enshrining censorship into the Constitution in exchange for short-term political advantage. Not… Continue Reading