April 2009
46 posts
so apparently some states have people to actually...
foureleven:
lifebeginswith:
hotg0ssip:
diamonds-n-rubies: how….why…
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Yep. It’s illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon.
It’s not illegal on LI, but I’ve pumped gas 3 times in my life. Each with disastrous results.
I’m from NJ and I’ve never pumped my own gas. The one time I did fill up out of state, I asked a local to do it for me. I thought the reasoning was to stimulate the...
Summer Associates Advised to Lose the Sense of... →
“Summer associate jobs have traditionally been filled with parties and perks designed to lure the students into full-time employment. No more. As law firms adjust their programs, taking a no-frills approach, students need to adjust as well, law school career counselors say.”
About goddamned time, is all I have to say.
Did You Know? →
Just how fast is technology changing? Pretty damn fast, according to this. I confess to feeling very, very old after watching this.
Swine Flu Fears at School in Queens →
Hoo boy. Yet another reason to never leave the apartment.
Watchc0wb0yz:
“Know Your Meme: Yo Dawg on Vimeo” par Rocketboom Une explication de meme ! Et très bien réalisée, en plus. Incroyable. La (sous-)culture internet dans toute sa splendeur. La conclusion du propos reflète la pertinence de l’ensemble : “Yo Dawg and other celebro-memes are evidences of an emerging dialogue between the internets and the mainstream. Memes are no longer simply...
“…when the Republicans impeached a president for committing perjury in a civil...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via retropolitics) (via mandalay) (via asprettyasasong)
“Obama should fast-track healthcare and stop trying to court Republicans. Every...”
– Robert Reich (via julyshewillfly) (via robot-heart-politics) (via asprettyasasong)
“Before I do some economics posts, I think I ought to say something about the...”
– Paul Krugman (via thebusstop) (via apsies) (via asprettyasasong)
“Did Sean Hannity get out from behind a desk and attend the immigration amnesty...”
– ginandtacos.com (via jgh) (via thesmarttart)
“What I’d like to interject into the dialog is the way that Somalia...”
– A friend of mine from LA, on the Somali pirates
“This country has showered me with the blessings of liberty. So what do I owe my...”
– Commentary: April 15 is patriots’ day
Update: Amazon debacle work of just one douchebag,... →
smalltowngayblog:
girlfriendisahomo:
The hacker behind the GLBT censorship on Amazon says:
“Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here’s a nice piece I like to call ‘how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code.’
I really hate reputation systems based on user input. This started a while back on Craigslist,...
The Literary Tradition of Women →
“Q. You say a literary history has to make judgments. Give us an example of whom you see as overrated, whom underrated?
A. Overrated: Gertrude Stein. She played an important role in the development of modernism, but she played it for men. And she is just not readable. She became viewed as a “sister”: That doesn’t sanctify her work. We can criticize it. I look with a...
WatchThis video is pretty astonishing for a couple of reasons, first of which is that Patrick Buchanan, a conservative Catholic, denies the doctrine of Papal infallibility, apparently without realizing that he’s done so; and second of which is the extent to which Lawrence O’Donnell stomps on him and reduces him to a sputtering mess. The video is a little long, so if you’re not in the...
WatchThe Lost Tribes of New York City. Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.
I’m pretty sure I’ve talked to that callbox a couple of times. Nice lady.
Sometimes...
…I have to remind myself that the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
“The global economic crisis threatens to reduce development assistance by at...”
– from a leaked draft of the G20 statement (pdf)
—via progressive realist: abbyjean (via vruz)
(via bossa)
With the Downturn, It’s Time to Rethink the Legal... →
“The economic downturn is hitting the legal world hard. American Lawyer is calling it “the fire this time” and warning that big firms may be hurtling toward “a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites” future. The Law Shucks blog has a “layoff tracker,” and it is grim reading. Top firms are rapidly thinning their ranks, and several — including Heller Ehrman, a venerable 500-plus-lawyer firm...
AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're... →
Matt Taibbi delivers a most excellent smackdown to the “Dear AIG, I quit” guy. A sample:
“But all of this is really secondary to the tone of DeSantis’ letter. He acts like he’s a victim because he didn’t get to keep his after-tax bonus of $742,006.40 in the middle of a global depression. And he really loses his fucking mind when he writes: “None of us...