Race Report:Disney Wine & Dine Half-Marathon

October 9, 2010
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The season opens The day I’ve been waiting for all summer has finally arrived—the start of running season. Here in Florida, June through August, and even into September, are just too damned hot to run seriously outdoors unless you have a hankering for heat stroke. But once fall hits, and temperatures drop below 90 for [...]

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An Open Letter to the Rays—Where Are the Fans?

September 28, 2010

Most of all, this message is for Evan Longoria and David Price. You’ve got the best record in all of baseball the American League, playing in the toughest division in baseball. You’re one game away from clinching the second playoff berth in team history. And yet you’re forced to wonder: where the hell are the [...]

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Clothed with authority

August 7, 2010

What will Justice Kagan wear? The famous David Lat points to a Slate article asking whether the newly-confirmed Justice Kagan will wear the frilly “jabot” neckpiece favored by other female justices O’Connor and Ginsburg, or if she’ll go the route Justice Sotomayor has taken and just pick discreet necklines under the robes. Did you know [...]

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How you’re finding me

July 18, 2010

A tag cloud of search terms people used to find this site this week.

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A List of Grieveances

July 4, 2010
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That King George was a right bastard: The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to [...]

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The Crosstown Expressway: pioneering new ways of taking your money

April 26, 2010
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Want to use a toll road, but don’t have change or a pre-paid device like SunPass? Soon, all you’ll need is a license plate – and a high tolerance for being tracked wherever you go. The St. Pete Times reports that Tampa’s Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway will ditch all toll booths as soon as [...]

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Want a new life? Birth certificates from Puerto Rico may be your answer.

April 22, 2010
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Need a fresh start? Want to live like Jason Bourne? Or just need a backup plan in case everything goes all to hell? Apparently, one way to do that up until now has been to get a fake birth certificate from Puerto Rico, then leverage that into a United States passport. “There are so many [...]

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Meet your cellmate: Uncle Sam

April 15, 2010
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Last year, I promised: “Next year, I’m writing about prison rape.” Close your eyes and think of America It’s tax time, and as always, our thoughts here turn to the forcible penetration of our wallets and our privacy by a government in full tumescence, turgid and needy, far too large for its proper place in [...]

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Foreclosure affidavits: why one judge thinks they’re garbage

April 13, 2010

Once in a very great while, a lawyer gets to be part of something amazing. Last week, I got my turn, when I saw a judge take a complete 180-degree reversal of himself and throw out his own order granting a foreclosure sale, and pronounce his deep-rooted concern that many of the foreclosures granted by [...]

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