Archive for the 'Rant' Category

Dec 10 2009

Take Tylenol Cold – You Won’t Look Like the Scary Lady on the Train

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Really?  This ad is going to sell you a cold medicine?  Take Halls – you’ll still look like crap, but you’ll be able to muddle through!  Take Halls – you not only will look like crap, but you will scare small children on the train! 
 
And not only is there one snot nosed lady attempting to [...]

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Apr 23 2009

The First Amendment on a Thursday

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So, this young attorney dropped by our office recently, wanting to take his novel theory of defense on a test run, see if it passed the laugh test.  Basically, his client was accused of saying nasty things about the police.  He wanted to put on a First Amendment defense. 
 
A few weeks later, I ran into said attorney, [...]

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Apr 14 2009

A “Friendly” Reminder

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Dear Senator Charles B. Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, former senator and failed nominee to head the Health and Human Services Departmen Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and failed nominee for Chief Performance Officer,  Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen [...]

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Mar 12 2009

Easy A

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So, remember I referred to Joey’s science project debacle a few posts ago?
 
Apparently, it wasn’t such a debacle.
 
He got an A.
 
I’m still scratching my head.
 
Let’s go back, see what you think.  Joey was given his 5th grade science project assignment before Thanksgiving.  Sometime before Christmas, he had his project approved, and his main bullet points [...]

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Mar 11 2009

The Emperor’s New Clothes – The Bird Poop Facial

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Women are putting shit on their face. 
 
I’m not talking about zit cream that could burn a hole through your skin, or exfoliators with acid, or makeup that is the consistency of spackle.
 
No, I’m talking about honest to G-d shit.
 
Bird shit, to be precise.
 
While getting ready yesterday morning, I had one ear on mischievous Lemon, and [...]

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