Archive for the ‘Irreverently Irrelevant’ Category

The Incredible Shrinking America

In 1800, it took a month and a half to get to Chicago from New York City. My three hour bus ride back home for Christmas would have taken a full week. (Or more, depending on the snow.) The Mother Nature Network posted a fun series of maps which show how our country’s become smaller [...]

It’s Like Saw But With Kids

Do you, Dear Reader, recall when I wrote at great length about the crimes committed by Ferris Beuller in the classic movie about his Day Off? That kind of geekery is as apt for the law as it is for medicine. Now if only there were a doctor of some sort willing to learn about [...]

Not The Onion

The Verge: Pakistan lifts YouTube ban for three minutes, only to find more blasphemy. Pakistan then re-instituted the ban on YouTube. Easy come, easy go.

An ER Doctor on Being Human

Representing clients and losing their cases is hard enough. But no matter how badly a lawyer argues a case, the client’s still alive at the end of the day. (Unless you’re litigating over a will, but then the client wasn’t alive at the beginning of the day, now was he?) Then there’s being a doctor. [...]