I’ve been down on being a lawyer lately, particularly after job woes and writing that post on billable hours. However, tonight I was pleased to be a lawyer. Briefly, a friend called me in distress because of a dispute over the completion of construction of her new family home. Her partner was overseas, and the builders had agreed to wait until he was back before having the final inspection of the house. Read more »
I pity the poor Cambodian lad in this report:
A Cambodian teenager was recovering in hospital after a puffer fish attacked him in the groin, local media reported on Tuesday.
The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to be alive.
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When my husband and I first moved in together, we lived in a set of terrace houses. We’d lived there about two years when new tenants moved in two doors down. The new tenants were Columbian exchange students, and I don’t think they took their studies seriously. What they did take seriously was partying hard and long. Thus, we frequently had very loud music reverberating through the terrace house until 5am in the morning on weeknights. Read more »
I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the concerns about leftist academic bias common on the right. The central issue for me is fairness, not politics. As long as academics and teachers mark fairly, I’m not too worried if they believe that we’re all secretly manipulated by a race of purple midgets living on Mars (building pyramids and avoiding fractional reserve banking, of course). I’m not even terribly perturbed if academics tell their students about said purple midgets. Read more »
I just can’t get over this picture of a lion enjoying himself on a “wall of death” ride in a sidecar. He looks like he’s having so much fun. Apparently this was taken in Massachusetts in 1929. Seriously.
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