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		<title>L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier, Conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But we&#8217;re not here to judge you/We want to be your friends now/And we can make you feel like everything that&#8217;s gone wrong&#8230; it happened for a reason. &#8220;Nothing is Wrong,&#8221; Gomez, Split the Difference (2004) &#8220;What? What&#8217;s your problem?&#8221; &#8220;My problem? You&#8217;ve got the fucking problems!&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re a head case, you know that?&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier, Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernice and I hit it off from there. She&#8217;d known all of Jerry&#8217;s friends well, well enough to focus on me, as somebody new to explore. Damned if I knew all we said. It was one bar after another, each getting louder than the last. Then some basement joint in the Back Bay, serving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read Part I here. But back on that night I&#8217;d visited Boston, Jerry was on good behavior. Or at least offering the appearance of it. He was loud and loaded early, but I could tell he was staying in check, maintaining a surface composure. And the reason for that came quickly &#8211; walked into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olde English Advocacy (Nuggets, Vol. XV)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A riff on the difference between narratives and alibis, and a bit of juvenile delinquency, cut from Happy Hour is for Amateurs: You can&#8217;t succeed in law without lying. It&#8217;s just a simple fact. But you also can&#8217;t make things up. How do you thread the needle? With something we know as the &#8220;narrative.&#8221; One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/07/lesprit-de-lescalier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re adding a little something to this month&#8217;s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you&#8217;re fired. - Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) What was said? Nothing, for at least a moment too long. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepwalking Through Work (Nuggets, Vol. XIV)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an outtake from the initial draft of Happy Hour is for Amateurs addressing a subject with which most of us who work in offices for any length of time are quite familiar &#8211; daydreaming through your job. Most think it&#8217;s a simple reaction to boredom. I agree, but I also think it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little of This, A Little of That (Conclusion)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H.L. Mencken It took a few phone calls, but eventually Martin and I tracked down the rest of the group and met up with them at another bar across town. &#8220;This sucks.&#8221; Erin was running a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little of This, A Little of That, Part III</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/02/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up on the roof, in my car/ Up all night, I&#8217;m pulling through signs like Dolomite/ The mack, I&#8217;m the Egg Man/ Taxi Driver, I&#8217;m the Egg Man - &#8220;Eggman,&#8221; Paul&#8217;s Boutique (1989) &#8220;Get over here! Stop! Now!&#8221; The words cut through the chatter all around me, through the noise of a crush of friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little of This, A Little of That, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a man has joined a party, he is likely to stay in it. If he changes his opinion &#8211; his feeling, I mean, his sentiment &#8211; he is likely to stay, anyway; his friends are of that party, and he will keep his altered sentiment to himself, and talk the privately discarded one. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little of This, a Little of That</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/01/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have no ideology, no agenda, no catechism, no dialectic, no plan for humanity. We have no &#8220;vision thing&#8221;&#8230; All we have is the belief that people should do what people want to do, unless it causes harm to other people. - The Liberty Manifesto, P.J. O&#8217;Rourke (1993) Mondays&#8230; They&#8217;re always so chatty on Mondays. [...]]]></description>
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