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Three Book Reviews

Three excellent book reviews for what sound like three terrible books (one of which is on my shelf at home, waiting to be read). First, Reason’s Cheryl Miller rips into Judith Levine’s anti-consumer book, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping. Levine airily insists that necessities in New York are different from those of a […]

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The New Suffix

My friends and I have a habit of reading fortune cookies at Chinese restaurants and sharing them with each other. Nearly all fortunes are made much more entertaining by the addition of the words “in bed” at the end. Example: “Every exit creates a new entrance.” – trite homily “Every exit creates a new entrance,

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The $40 Lawyer

It’s Fall recruitment time and I’m sending out resumes to large law firms to get a coveted summer associate position next year. Probably in a nice firm with a big office and a high salary. Nice as that is, I sometimes think I’d rather be this guy: Prosecutors keep pressuring him to make their lives

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Subversive Philly Ads

The Philadelpia Daily News has a series of mock ads encouraging people to move to the City of Brotherly love. They’re cute and subversive. In other news, law school continues to kick my ass and I’m going to be in Portland this weekend for the Libertarian National Convention. What’s happening with you? Yours truly,Mr. X

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Short Update

Evidence is kicking my ass, Law Review is kicking my ass, and work is kicking my ass. Hence the light bloggery. Also, the following quote is gold: “A man may fail, but he does not become a failure until he blames somebody else.” -J. Paul Getty Yours truly,Mr. X …iron, lion, zion…

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Rebirth

My laptop hard drive suffered a catastrophic failure earlier this week. All of my data files, pictures, and music were lost. Luckily I had a backup of Quicken, so my financial records should be safe or at least easily reconstructed. I’ve ordered a new hard drive that should get here next week and I’m buying

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Vegas and a quote

I’m off to sunny Las Vegas on Thursday. Wish me luck at the tables and in a poker tournament I’m playing in. Also, this quote touched a chord: There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash,

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Netflix and ING

If any of my intrepid readers who don’t already have Netflix would like a free month to try it, drop me an email before May 8. Ditto for anyone who doesn’t yet have an ING Direct account and would like a free $25. Yours truly,Mr. X …clearing the inboxes…

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