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Funny, you don’t look vegetable

Posted by Ron Coleman on March 13, 2008

Heard this morning on the radio from Mike Greenberg:

Jewish wedding, New Square, NY

Vegans — they’re the hasidim of vegetarianism.

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Der Spitz

Posted by Ron Coleman on March 10, 2008

Overlawyered: perhaps the place to go for snark, fun and learned commentary on the story of the day!

UPDATE:  Oh yeah, we did deal a little with this topic, here, after all.

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Gallery of Atrocities

Posted by Ron Coleman on February 20, 2008

vegetable-stall.jpgTime to get morally serious about that salad you’ve got there, buster.

Hat tip to Irina Tsukerman!

UPDATE: I had intended to add a link to an article I wrote for Student Lawyer magazine about 20 years ago, a parody law-school “welcome” booklet for a fictional fourth-tier law school called “Welcome to Lincoln Law” in which I believe I actually first originated the concept of a “Vegetable Rights Clinic.” But I recently cleaned up and threw out a bunch of junk, and, well, there ya go. No documentary proof… yet.

Um, I did find this (PDF) from the same era. It’s not as funny, but it has its atrocious aspects, too.

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Hail, yes!

Posted by Ron Coleman on February 13, 2008

OK, this is one of the funniest trademark posts I’ve done in, like, days.

But, warning: If you’re much under 40, don’t bother clicking.

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Perfect!

Posted by Ron Coleman on February 7, 2008

The Onion:

As the once-invincible, still-insufferable Patriots attempt to come to grips with their 17-14 Super Bowl loss to the Giants, the death of their dream to go undefeated, and the possible end of their dynasty, almost every other person in America is reveling in what they consider the perfect ending to New England’s season.

Well put!

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Picture it!

Posted by Ron Coleman on January 22, 2008

How to Beat the Conservative Blues

  • “Rush Limbaugh Is in a Funk and Someone’s Gonna Pay”–headline, LATimes.com, Jan. 22
  • “Rush will play June 27 at the Marcus Amphitheater. Tickets cost $40-$75, plus fees.”–PostCrescent.com (Appleton, Wis.), Jan. 21

Now there’s a concept for you.

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Universe to implode

Posted by Ron Coleman on January 22, 2008

Matter meets antimatter — David Bowie and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are invoked in the same post.

Which would be more horrified?  (Don’t answer too fast.)

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Hed nodding

Posted by Ron Coleman on January 21, 2008

New York Post:

BILL HAS A ‘DREAM’: EX PREZ NODS OFF DURING MLK AWARD PRESENTATION

Wake me when it’s over!

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Invisible server capacity

Posted by Ron Coleman on January 21, 2008

Instapundit links to the Heritage Foundation, and …

UPDATE: Oops. The link seems to have killed Heritage’s blog — at least, it’s showing an “exceeded CPU quota” at the moment. That should fix itself soon.

“Fix itself soon”?  I’ll have to try that one with the Missus one of these days.  Wow, talk about your faith in the “invisible hand“! Well, it is the Heritage Foundation, after all…

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Hey, wait a minute. I was the president of the drama club!!

Posted by Ron Coleman on January 20, 2008

David Lat at Above the Law responds to an outraged, but evidently not “outed,” would-be tipster who gets all huffy about a narrowly-tailored — fabulously tailored, in fact — social invitation circulated at a big law firm:

Truth be told, we aren’t deeply troubled. Regardless of their technical status under the law, events for lawyers who share common interests happen all the time.

So lighten up, Mr. Tipster! You probably wouldn’t have liked the music anyway . . .

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