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Pete on February 8th, 2008

Call the racism police… ‘Jena 6′ teen arrested after another school fight. A member of the group dubbed the “Jena 6″ is facing misdemeanor assault charges after a fight at his Texas high school Wednesday, police said Thursday. Everyone knows you can’t arrest a black student for attacking someone. That’s racist. You cannot even [...]

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Pete on February 7th, 2008

Lileks has a great column today about how it’s un-PC to love America unless you temper your comments with sufficient criticism. But. Someone somewhere is a practicing Baptist and someone somewhere else is eating a hamburger larger than you’d prefer, and other people are watching cars go around a track at [...]

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Pete on February 6th, 2008

When Saban signed the #4 player (and #1 WR) in the country, it jumped Alabama to #1 in almost everyone’s rankings. Now, you will hear people with poor recruiting classes saying things like “Recruiting ranking doesn’t matter”, and in a very strict sense, that’s true. What does matter, though, is the quality and talent of the [...]

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Pete on February 5th, 2008

Say what? According to this week’s Fire Cracker school newsletter though, the joke’s on the boys as the penalty for “intentional farting” is now a detention. “Strange, but true, thanks to a bunch of 8th grade boys, intentional farting has been banned from CRMS,” the newsletter said. “It started [...]

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Pete on February 4th, 2008

From my first job bussing tables when I was sixteen, throughout undergrad, and through two and a half years of law school I had a fairly remarkable record: I never interviewed for a position that I wasn’t offered. That streak ended quite unceremoniously today when I got an email informing me that I had [...]

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Pete on February 3rd, 2008

So… almost three quarters in, and I have yet to see a single commercial that even comes close to being as awesome as the commercials were five or six years ago. I think Superbowl commercials have jumped the shark. I’ve had a pretty busy weekend, and this week I really need to get back into some [...]

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Pete on February 2nd, 2008

The Judge I interviewed with last week has narrowed his potential pool of clerks for next year to four, and I am one of them. He’s expected to make a decision this week, which is awesome. I hope there’s no unwritten rule against accepting a job on the spot, because that’s what I’ll do if [...]

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Pete on February 1st, 2008

So… I posted every day in January. That was pretty cool. I really didn’t think the New Year’s Resolution was going to make it that far. In other news… it was supposed to snow like crazy last night. People around here were acting like people in Alabama act when someone on the news just says the [...]

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