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		<title>&#8216;Commencement 2009&#8242;, Print Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who&#8217;ve been searching for the &#8220;Commencement 2009&#8243; piece, below is a link to the four parts of it, in one continuous PDF file. People seem to really like this thing, so we threw all of the installments into one document, for easier printing and reading. I&#8217;m told this piece circulates a lot. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re Not Getting Laid Because&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/youre-not-getting-laid-because/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s quick, as I&#8217;m hopefully watching the Phillies take a two game lead on the Yankees. (That I view a big chunk of its legal community as one might a festering STD doesn&#8217;t sour me entirely against the city. And really, who the hell can be Yankee fan with that payroll? It&#8217;s like being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collectivists or Capitalists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read my book, you know my exact political affiliation. But I&#8217;ve never come out and plainly articulated it here. When you lean hard left on personal liberty issues and hard right on fiscal policies, it&#8217;s awfully lonely, and frequently annoying, to talk politics in this country. But a lot of that&#8217;s changing. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bourbon</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/07/bourbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to say about bourbon? If you&#8217;ve read this, this, this or this in the past four and a half years I&#8217;ve been writing, you know it&#8217;s pretty much a second form of blood for me. Hell, my book&#8217;s an all but thinly veiled love letter to the stuff. In a world where most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memo to Corporate America: It&#8217;s Time to Put the Legal Industry on the Canvas</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/07/memo-to-corporate-america-its-time-to-put-the-legal-industry-on-the-canvas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael: Moe Greene will sell us his share of the hotel and the casino so that it can be completely owned by the family. Fredo: Hey, Mike, are you sure about that? I mean, Moe loves the business. He never said anything to me about sellin&#8217;. Michael: I&#8217;ll make him an offer he can&#8217;t refuse. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day the Fat Man Died</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/07/the-day-the-fat-man-died/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, as I was not in a cave on another planet for the last two weeks, like everyone else, I was forced to consider the death of Michael Jackson. And more than that, the all too common cautionary tale of the artist lost early &#8211; one more creative mind ground to dust in the showbiz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What It&#8217;s Like Graduating into One of the Nastiest Job Markets in History (And Why It Might be an Opportunity in Disguise)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I did an interview answering questions from a recent college graduate, a few of which touched on the job market and economy facing people in his position. But those are my opinions, and I&#8217;m far divorced from ground zero in that discussion. Eighteen to twenty-four year olds might be a nice chunk of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Risk (Happy Fourth of July)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you&#8217;re being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don&#8217;t forget what you&#8217;re celebrating, and that&#8217;s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn&#8217;t want to pay their taxes. Sound familiar? It&#8217;s a line from Dazed n&#8217; Confused, delivered by &#8220;Ms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Want Something to Tax, Tax Lies.</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/06/if-you-want-something-to-tax-tax-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest obstacles to formal pot legalization are the types of people arguing most vehemently for pot legalization. - Me, on Twitter (April 15, 2009) Of the myriad disingenuous arguments for marijuana legalization made over the years, none is less credible, and more embarrassing, than the present claim that rolling back its prohibition would create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gin</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/06/gin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://philalawyer.net/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used drink a lot of gin in college. When you&#8217;re young and you don&#8217;t know enough to drink your liquor straight &#8211; that the sugars in what you add to it are seventy percent of the hangover &#8211; you drink it loaded with mixers. And everything tastes great soaked in tonic. Then, of course, [...]]]></description>
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