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I think the NFL is getting too big for its britches, and I doubt that it is good for the league in the long run for its best games to be unavailable to most viewers. Heck, I'd even pay to watch GB-DAL on the intarwebs, but no such luck. *wonders what Ms. Roc would demand to watch Lil' Roc...

Congrats! The legal blogosphere is all abuzz over the NY bar today. Probably a bit tougher than the Series 7, no?

I realized that after I posted; I suspect that most people who identify as atheist are technically atheist materialists (including myself), but if you believe that we are all colors vibrating on the 43d wavelength, and that there are no gods, you are also an atheist. Sloppy wording on my part.

There was a Watchtower tract stuck in my front door the other day. It's in the bushes now. I hope it blows away or starts decomposing soon. Can I collect all my junk mail for a while and drop it off at Kingdom Hall?

Was LaVey an atheist? I thought he was more of a hippie-dippie New Age type. To your point,Eran, Al Pacino has a great soliloquy at the end of The Devil's Advocate basically summarizing that position.

And moreover, the meme of the "Satan worshipper" who celebrates evil and sacrifices babies and whatnot is the invention of Christian fundamentalists. Barry Glassner talks about it some in The Culture of Fear (or whatever the title is), which talks about the sociology of mass hysteria.

Option 1. Check the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), or whatever style manual you've been told to use. But the CMS is always a good default. It's hereinafter, not hereafter, but you don't need either. I'm on my school's law review, so Pedants Wanted is like the Bat Signal to me. Questions...

Defintely The Boss. His new stuff is decent, his E Street Hiatus era was regrettable, but everything before that is pure art that happens to be set to rock music. "Well, the cops finally busted Madam Marie/ For telling fortunes better than they do" I'll die before I understand Thunder...

If that is correct, they are encouraging her to speculate in the currency market. Half the players in that market believe that the USD is overvalued relative to the Euro, and half do not. Out of thousands of currency traders with billions of [Dollars/Euros/whatever] in play, the fact that a...

And that was my point: that is no longer news. But I would imagine that her advisors are giving sohphisticated advice that does not lend itself to simple, single-factor explanations. And I would further surmise that their main job (as far as this goes) is to hedge against currency...

To lighten the mood: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38581

Just because she's not stupid doesn't mean she knows what she's talking about. And the fact that someone "not normally assoiated with" an understanding of the issue has spouted off the conventional wisdom doesn't really "tell me something," frankly. I'm not saying she's wrong; in fact, if...

Being the currency of choice for someone whose main qualification is being hot does not mean much. The article does quote some real economists who suggest that the dollar is still a bit overvalued, but that isn't really news at this point. The supermodel was the story's hook. Her job, as I...

The linked article actually says: "And Jim Rogers, a former investor partner of George Soros, told the BBC that if he was buying currency now it would be the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc and not the US dollar." A bit more moderate, yes? If a supermodel wants to...

He had been 0-3, per ESPN. Losses I know of: 1993 (five picks) 1996 during the mini-slump when everyone was hurt 2003: The Chiefs were undefeated; Mike Sherman mysteriously abandoned the running game late and let them back into the game at Lambeau; I signed my bar tab...