I think I am becoming slap-happy, because this sentance, in a document for adult medical professionals travelling to Puerto Rico, is making me laugh and laugh. It just sounds so, well, dumb.

Try not to look like a tourist and leave your camera on a beach towel while you swim.

as sort of a jacked up quick tailoring?

Language note: Emmett has taken to saying "jacked up" as euphemism for "Fucked up." This was not current during my youth, and I thought "effed up" had taken a commanding lead.

Please verify with anecdotes your observation of this trend, or deny it utterly, or display indifference.

Don't make us give you an extraordinarily proud thumbs-down.

Heh!

There really needs to be an entire movie based upon this flag lowering ceremony. Or a Monty Python sketch. Or a Daily Show Special Report.

Baby Panda pile! I...I want to roll around amongst them! They'd probably bite, huh?

Seeing that Hurricaine Wilma is possibly heading for Florida, where are all the people saying huffily, "Why do people live in a state where hurricaines hit all the time? Why should we pay for people who live on the coasts of Florida? We should make them move"?

t sick of people saying New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt

display indifference.

....

I say "jacked up." And you know I'm down with the Youth Of Today.

OK, I made my cover page, and I have words on basically enough pages. The pages still need a lot of work, but I have all day (until 6) tomorrow, so I think I'm all set.

administrative law, admiralty, antitrust, arbitration, banking, bankruptcy, civil rights, constitutional law, environmental law, federal jurisdiction and procedure, First Amendment, health care law, Indian law, interstate commerce, labor law and patent and trade dress law."

Dude. He even alphabetized it.

...why are there no areas of law in the Ms and Ns? To say nothing of R, S, and V.

...why are there no areas of law in the Ms and Ns?

Murphy's law...

Oh hey, y'all, there's a new Letter of Fug up.

Seeing that Hurricaine Wilma is possibly heading for Florida, where are all the people saying huffily, "Why do people live in a state where hurricaines hit all the time? Why should we pay for people who live on the coasts of Florida? We should make them move"?

Well, you know. . . Florida is full of really old people who are going to die soon anyway, so we just don't care. . . right?

Allyson, that sample piece is fabulous and fascinating.