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I haz knowledge of caturday...
iddaa
Cats Can Has Grammar
Thanks for the post. I think that kids (especially the first one) change the equilibrium quite a lot...
Michael Finocchiaro
In Defense of Marriage
This business of trying hundreds of things in the hope that one will pay off and you'll win big seem...
Martin Atkins
A Red Flag Before The White Flag
PLC is right. Book publishers do the same thing -- their small number of massive hits pay for a huge...
peterme
A Red Flag Before The White Flag
MLB teams operate under the assumption that more than 90% of the players they sign will fail. The s...
PLC
A Red Flag Before The White Flag

A Red Flag Before The White Flag

Major labels function with the assumption that 90 percent of artists they sign are going to fail — that should have been a red...
A Legal Precedent For Being Funny As Shit

"Gollywaddles!" Solicitor General Gregory G. Garre (no seriously, his initials are "GGG"!) aspires to the title of Most Ridiculous Person In The World today with...
In Defense of Marriage

Three years and one day ago, I got married. And then shortly after that, I wrote a post about getting married, which has become one...
What Sarah Palin Is Saying

Sarah Palin has been unsurprising in her criticisms of Barack Obama's credentials and policies, fulfilling the traditional role of the vice presidential candidate being the...
Yo Mama's So Fat...

I've long been a fan of playing the dozens, as is to be expected from anyone who loves language. Last night, in a fit of...

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