For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

When you put it that way, I really, really miss law.

Even at, say $3-4... even $5 hundred K a year, how in the fuck do you not blow your fucking brains out?

For Those Full of Shit Enough to Deny Double Billing and Bill Padding
 

I'm half way out--not in a firm, but still in a jd-required job. That sort of practice is only tolerable if you have decent, semi-reasonable clients.

Am I Crazy
 

So she'll be over 60 by the end of those seven years? Cu-coo-ca-choo!

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

Hello, Mrs. Robinson.

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

Interesting choice. If I were going the S&G route, I would have gone with "The Boxer."

All lies and jest.
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie lie lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie lie-la-lie lie lie
Lie-la-lie lie lie

Bruce Lee For President
 

http://player.clipsyndicate.com/play...resize=1&cpt=8

[spree: fight in Taiwan legislature]

Vive la France.
 

Lifted entirely from The Volokh Conspiracy, here's a post by David Kopel:

All links are Kopel's.

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

W's more a "You Can Call Me Al" kind of guy.

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

If we're going with the solo stuff, I'd go with "Still Crazy after All These Years."

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

I. like most people, have always found Jon Voight the most straight thinking, intelligent and unbiased of our major international superstars. That is why I've wondered why he has been silent about politics the last few years. well the great man finally let his views be known, and i must say they are as insightful as I had dexpected:

• My heart is very heavy, and I‘m really terrified by what is happening to our great nation. Our country is being divided by extremists who really believe all the propaganda that they are being fed on a daily basis by very cunning professionals.
  
  I mean, here we have American people in this country, in this city, in D.C., defacing our president, calling him unthinkable names. And what is the agenda for which they are doing this? And I find it‘s just to bring their party to power.
  
  And these people that—and I‘m stepping way into something now—but these people who are wanting to rule with this aspect of technique have no real answer as to how they‘re going to do it, as witnessed by Nancy Pelosi‘s trip recently. And the real sad part is that they don‘t realize that they‘re feeding the enemy all the nutrients that they need to destroy us.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12633

Some damning points, and i now understand why most of you have been brain washed.

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

You can quote all the Hollyweird loonies you want, but don't expect it to carry much weight around here.

Do you think he and Ratso ever hooked up?

Because Ty Is Sleeping
 

I prefer not to pay much attention to what celebrities think about current events.

Apropos of Little
 

I was somewhat startled to see, while driving through West LA recently, a building carrying the signage, "Iranian Jewish Senior Center."

I do not know if this retirement community is designed to attract the largest definitional demographic, or instead is tailored to that tiny area where the Venn Diagram overlaps.

If the latter, why?

If the former, my money says that the nightly bingo games are somethin'.

Carry on.

Apropos of Little
 

The Persians who live here call your city Tehrangeles. If the subset exists, that's the likely place on the planet it'd be found.

Or maybe Paris.

Apropos of Little
 

There's a bunch of them in Montreal. In fact, I think there's even an Iranian Jewish Congress-type organization there.

Apropos of Little
 

Speaking of this, I was out the other night with a friend of mine (not a close friend, but more than an acquaintance) and I asked him how he likes his new neighborhood (he moved somewhat recently to southern Beverly Hills). He got close to me and said something like "I like it okay, but... [quieter] there's too many Persians. At night it's like little Tehran over there."

I didn't take that opportunity to mention to him that my nieces are half Persian, though I probably should have. This is an acceptable group to be prejudiced against now? I mean, he's made homophobic sorts of statements in front of me before, even knowing that I have gay friends, so maybe he's all around clueless, but I wonder whether he would have felt so comfortable saying that stuff to me if the group had been blacks? I'm always curious what makes people think that these sorts of statements are okay.

Apropos of Little
 

At least they're aristocratic Persians.

Apropos of Little
 

Isn't it okay to feel uncomfortable living in a very ethnically homogenous area, if you aren't part of it? I actually would like living in a Persiany neighborhood, but I do understand that others like to be around their own kind. How do you think a heavily Persian neighborhood gets to be a heavily Persian neighborhood?

Apropos of Little
 

I would assume that people flee when they realize that the little Persian women will be trying to feed them to death. If he thought it was an okay thing to be saying, why did he lower his voice?

Apropos of Little
 

his voice got low after he leaned in close to you, and you want to know why? what kind of top were you wearing?

Apropos of Little
 

People come to this country and fall under the spell of American fast food. Too much McDonald's and Burger King and Arby's and Jack in the Box and -- poof -- you are heavily Persian.

Apropos of Little
 

Two years ago was the first time I'd ever met an Iranian who wasn't Jewish. So far, that dude is the only one. And I've met a bunch of them.

Apropos of Little
 

Apparently so. Others have educated me on this unusual concentration.

• There are many Persian Jews in the United States, specifically in California and New York State. Many Persian Jews live in Beverly Hills, in Los Angeles. Estimates place the Persian community population as high as 25% in Beverly Hills, while others place it even higher (close to half or more). The large majority of Beverly Hills Persians adhere to Judaism [37], making them Persian-American Jews. A 2007 article stated that: "...about 8,000 of Beverly Hill's approximately 35,000 residents are of Iranian descent" [28]. On March 21, 2007, Jimmy Delshad, a Persian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1958, became the mayor of Beverly Hills, elected with bilingual English-Farsi ballots [38], making him one of the highest ranking elected Iranian-American officials in the United States.

So, we West LA folks (and apparently dtb as well) are surrounded by Persian Jews. Surrounded, I tell you!

Gattigap

Apropos of Little
 

It is good to know that one day my nieces will be rich enough to live in Beverly Hills if they so desire. Or at least halfway rich enough.

Apropos of Little
 

Did you move?

Apropos of Little
 

Well. Surrounded during working hours, I guess.

Apropos of Little
 

translation: my kids' social activities are pretty much limited to BBYO and my friends and professional contacts are all from schul.

ruh-roh
 

• Pakistan's nuclear authority has said there is no cause for concern after it published press adverts for information on "lost" radioactive material.
  
  The adverts urged members of the public to inform officials if they found any "lost or stolen" radioactive material.
  
  They were published in major Urdu-language newspapers in Pakistan.
  
  A spokesman for the nuclear authority said that there was a "very remote chance" that nuclear materials imported 40-50 years ago were unaccounted for.

The Beeb

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

So Tony Blair is stepping down at the end of June.

But what the fuck is this about leading "the greatest nation on earth"? Someone ought to fly out there for the day just to straighten his ass out.

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

I don't mind a little exaggeration. It's a retirement speech, so it's largely ceremonial. I don't see the point in rubbing their noses in it with something about leading "the ninth-best nation on this half of the continent."

Vladimir Putin: Voice of Freedom
 

This is another one I liked - Putin comparing the US to Nazi Germany:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6638029.stm

There's nothing quite so comforting as knowing the Russians hate us again, or so funny as being called Nazis by an ex-KGB agent and unapologetic dictator. I love Putin. He has a good soul, you know.

Richardson
 

A not-unfunny ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOuL5qwNIc

My brother liked it more than I did.

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

I thought Kazakhstan was the greatest nation in the world?

S_A_M

Richardson
 

I like Richardson a lot, actually.

S_A_M

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

Ty's blog isn't up to date. on it he still picks "USSR," so we don't really know where he is now.

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

Is not little Belgium great in its own way?

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

They make beer. That I kind of like. So yes.

Richardson
 

2 - but he will never win because the press is too in love with the Clinton/Obama stories. It's a shame because he is a DEM I could potentially vote for.

Tony Blair: Traitor
 

I may let you know in a few months. Almaty is shaping up as a likely destination in my next trip.

your liberal media at work
 

CBS News fires retired general John Batiste as a consultant because he advocated for withdrawal from Iraq, but has not fired Michael O'Hanlon, who has advocated for the surge. Hmm.