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Old 09-26-2008, 06:48 PM   #1
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to be reminded how everything is so ephemeral, and fragile? For all we know next we'll hear Harvard or the LDS Church is insolvent from investing in too many complex derivative real estate chemes. Some day, even America will disappear beneath the bone white dunes.
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Old 09-26-2008, 06:51 PM   #2
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http://www.slate.com/id/2200544/entry/0/

This guy is not the best writer, nor the most profound thinker, but he makes the same point.
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This guy is not the best writer, nor the most profound thinker, but he makes the same point.
That guy, Tim Wu, was my law professor. I actually find his writing to be quality stuff, and very readable. He held a wine and cheese event at his place for the students in our International Law class, and by the end he was in a bunny suit giving flirty girls rides on his 1977 Honda motorcycle. Good times.
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That guy, Tim Wu, was my law professor. I actually find his writing to be quality stuff, and very readable. He held a wine and cheese event at his place for the students in our International Law class, and by the end he was in a bunny suit giving flirty girls rides on his 1977 Honda motorcycle. Good times.
you have bad taste. this writing is pretty awful.
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you have bad taste. this writing is pretty awful.
Did you read the previous entries in the Mongolian series? They were better.

Trust me, if a law professor can write stuff for Slate, the New Yorker, and the Times, and still manage to produce the kind of drivel that Law Reviews require, then he's not a terrible writer. If anything, he's a versatile one.
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Did you read the previous entries in the Mongolian series? They were better.

Trust me, if a law professor can write stuff for Slate, the New Yorker, and the Times, and still manage to produce the kind of drivel that Law Reviews require, then he's not a terrible writer. If anything, he's a versatile one.
I want to fight him. I would love to see his eyes roll back, before he collapses on the mat.
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I want to fight him. I would love to see his eyes roll back, before he collapses on the mat.
You could accomplish the task with your pinky. He's, shall we say, not so coordinated. He managed to trip himself up quite often walking around the front of the classroom while lecturing.
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Doesn't it make you fell alive to be reminded how everything is so ephemeral, and fragile? For all we know next we'll hear Harvard or the LDS Church is insolvent from investing in too many complex derivative real estate chemes. Some day, even America will disappear beneath the bone white dunes.
Stop plagarizing the Book of Ether, which we all know was just a lucky guess.
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to be reminded how everything is so ephemeral, and fragile? For all we know next we'll hear Harvard or the LDS Church is insolvent from investing in too many complex derivative real estate chemes. Some day, even America will disappear beneath the bone white dunes.
Are you dying? Anyone, is Seattleute dying?
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