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Archive for October, 2008
A Million Miles
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Georgetown Law community, the legal community of the Virgin Islands, and the world at large lost a friend this week. Gabe Lerner was a rock guitarist, a Packers fan, and a damn fine attorney.
He will be knowingly missed by those who were lucky enough to know him, an unknowingly missed by the many […]
Video Aphorism: The Rolling Stones, “Tumbling Dice”
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The Rolling Stones, performing “Tumbling Dice” live in 1972.
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aph·o·rism (f-rzm)
n. 1. A tersely phrased statement of a truth.
n. 2. A post in an irregularly-updated series on the Chicago Typewriter weblog.
Cheney to have procedure done on heart: presumably not his own.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Dick Cheney is getting his “abnormal heart rhythms” checked. If Dick Cheney does, in fact, have a heart, I can only imagine what a “normal rhythm” for it would be like. I’m guessing something like 7/4 or 13/3 time.
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There is an interesting question that this raises, though: what should Bush do if […]
God’s Doorstep
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I don’t give money to panhandlers, as a general rule. It’s something of a take on the old “give a man a fish” kind of thing; I would rather volunteer my time or money to organizations that help provide services to the needy. I will buy Streetwise or any of its myriad cousins […]