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  • Serious Question of the Day

    Remind me again why we continue to pretend Joe Lieberman is a Democrat? [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:42pm EST

  • Reminder: Virtual Candidate Forum Today

    As I posted about on Friday, the Committee for a Better Atlanta's Virtual Candidate Forum is today from 4:30 to 7:00pm. Already, some great questions have been posted on CfaBA's website, and I am sure even better questions will be asked during the live forum itself.

    Here [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:28pm EST

  • Serious Question of the Day

    Would Sarah Palin be such a political or cultural hot commodity today if she wasn't hot (i.e., more physically attractive than average)?

    I consider her to be the Anna Kournikova of politics, and I find that to be a sad and potentially dangerous thing. But I want to know' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:16pm EST

  • Questions for the Candidates?

    In what I can only assume was a complete and total mistake (calling me a "prominent blogger" makes me question your judgment!), the Committee for a Better Atlanta has invited me to participate in a Virtual Mayoral Forum next Tuesday from 4:30 to 7pm. The event will be hosted live [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:09am EST

  • On Advocacy

    It is very easy for people to make fun of, look down upon, and pass judgment upon lawyers. As I have often said to friends, lawyers have the reputational issue they do because generally people only need one of us at the worst points in life: you have been injured, [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:55pm EST

  • Let a Lawyer Show You How It's Done

    (This post will be a refutation of the factual assertions made by Atlanta Progressive News in two articles about Kasim Reed's representation of corporate interests in employment litigation. The background stories are here and here. I have pulled up the very same PACER dockets from which these stories' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:44am EST

  • Mood Music





    One of these days
    you'll go out of your way sometime' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:14am EST

  • Absolutely

    Stefan at Blog for Democracy gets it exactly right in his open letter to Kasim Reed, who I support in the Atlanta mayor's race. While I want Reed to win, Stefan is 100% correct that HOW you win elections is very nearly as important as WHETHER you win elections,' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:30pm EST

  • As if I needed more evidence...

    ...that FSU's defense sucks balls:



    (via Tomahawk Nation)

    Every single Division I-A opponent FSU has played this year had their best offensive game of the season against FSU. (Well, until USF bested its 6.3 yards per play against FSU with' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:30am EST

  • Adventures in Dating #4: One Night Only

    Today as I returned to my car from withdrawing a sizeable amount of cash at the bank (long story), I noticed that I had a missed call on my phone from a guy I had been texting with earlier about meeting up tonight. I called him back without checking to [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:24pm EST

  • Mood Music: a Twofer

    The song I previously posted was M. Ward, featuring Zooey Deschanel. They previously collaborated together as She & Him, and this song just gets under my skin and stays there for days.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:07am EST

  • Mood Music: Just like A-B-C edition



    But now that I've been through that hell
    I've got a story to tell... [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:05am EST

  • Random Football Rant


    Yesterday, longtime Florida State Defensive Coordinator Mickey Andrews finally put himself out of his own misery and announced he would retire after this season. This decision couldn't come soon enough, since FSU's defense is ranked 109th out of 120 teams...in other words, there's only 11' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:25pm EST

  • Mood Music: Old school Lucinda edition



    Shouldn't I have this
    shouldn't I have this
    Shouldn't I have all of this and...' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:53am EST

  • Election Day

    I've agonized over whether to do an endorsements post for the city elections that are happening today, because I'm concerned I will not be able to provide good strong reasons for my votes. So instead, I will just tell you who I am voting for and [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:17am EST

  • Still alive

    Despite appearances, I'm still kicking. Last week I went to Baltimore for 4 days of cupcaking and the most beautiful wedding I've ever been to. When I returned I was swamped and exhausted...and promptly got sick.

    I was just sick with a cold a month ago (had to push [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:54pm EDT

  • Cupcaking Returns

    This weekend I made test batches of two new cupcake flavors that we are making later this week for my friend Beth's wedding. They were both delicious! I figured I should share.
    These are the Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting, courtesy of Smitten Kitchen:
    [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 2:08pm EDT

  • AJC gets it right


    It's easy for some in the local blogging community to treat our local newspaper as irrelvant, what with their repeated downsizing and the growing conventional wisdom that their eventual death and closure (and that of most major newspapers) is all but certain. But once in' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:52pm EDT

  • The Mystery of the Not My Condoms

    Friday night I was searching for something high and low throughout my house, and my search took me to my nightstand drawer. While I have no desire to tell you all about the contents of that drawer, just trust that should my parents ever get curious and open it, they [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:22pm EDT

  • Are you a clueless voter?

    Don't be ashamed...I am too. When I voted in the February 2008 primary, I was shocked at how many positions I had to vote for where I knew completely zilch about any of the candidates. In those races, I decided my votes based on such superficial and ineffective factors as:[...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:21pm EDT

  • Things I can't wrap my head around

    Before the start of this college football season, Bobby Bowden said he'd like to win one more championship and he thought we had the team to do it this year.

    We are TERRIBLE. We are playing true freshmen on defense, and even then we're painfully thin.

    Seriously, how [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 12:23pm EDT

  • Mood Music: a song and a story

    It's been a weird week, folks. Thanks to Monday morning's email from the ex-boyfriend, I've had more occasion to think about my life in Tallahassee and Boston many years ago than I have in ages. This morning the following song came on my iPod and it immediately transported me to' [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:44am EDT

  • Love this



    (Via Share some candy) [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:50pm EDT

  • Mood Music

    Tuesday night I went to see U2 at the Georgia Dome. The show was fantastic. Though I was not surprised by it, they did not play my favorite song of theirs:



    The doors you open
    I just can't close...' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 12:18pm EDT

  • Well Hello There

    So, I've been a slackass blogger lately. Work has been insanely busy thanks to yet another coworker leaving (for the job I desperately wanted--Assistant U.S. Attorney!), and there just hasn't been much out there to inspire me lately even when I do have time to peruse the internets. I go [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 10:37am EDT

  • Atlanta voter registration deadline fast approaching

    It's hard to imagine that anyone managed to make it through the 2008 election without getting registered to vote, what with the dramatic rise in both registration and turnout. However, some people may have been stuck under a rock, and others may have moved and not had a chance to' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:50pm EDT

  • That game sucked

    Really, there isn't much more that I can say than that. I was shamefully relieved that we weren't shut out at home, something that has not happened in so long that nobody believes it is even still possible. I was angry early and ready to give up before the half, [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:12am EDT

  • Ready for some football!

    Headed to Tallahassee this weekend for a little of this:



    It should be interesting, because the fans have been asked to attempt one of these:



    I am generally an opponent of "White-out" or "Black-out" games that [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 3:07pm EDT

  • Friday Video Clip



    Learn it. Know it. Love it. [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:47pm EDT

  • Adventures in Dating #3: The Lawyer

    In law school, as you might expect, there were dozens of hookups amongst the single law students and by third year we had numerous engagements on our hands. I never understood the desire to date, let alone marry, another lawyer. While some of my best friends are lawyers, I think [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 10:13am EDT

  • Oldie but a goodie

    Today for what seems like about the 5th time since I moved to Atlanta, I was diagnosed with pinkeye. This seems to happen almost every time I get sick, for some reason. I have antibiotic drops and all that jazz, but when I got back to the office from the [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 3:55pm EDT

  • An interesting Atlanta-centered legal dispute

    The organizers of this year's Dragon*Con are working through lawyers to persuade the Guinness Book of World Records to grant them the record for the largest choreographed performance of "Thriller," with over 900 people. Watch it here:



    The previous record was 242 participants, but unfortunately before the [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 3:45pm EDT

  • Adventures in Dating #2: Big P*ssy

    I'm going to skip straight to the top of my list of bad dating stories for installment #2, because let's be honest, I'm probably not going to complete many more entries in this series before I grow tired of it and decide it's not really that interesting. So, easily far [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 4:18pm EDT

  • A Little Atlanta Inspiration


    Very few things penetrate my hard little cynical heart these days, but when they do I feel the need to share. Reading the fascinating inside story of how community advocate Kyle Keyser decided to run for mayor and then managed to raise the $4500 filing [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 9:53am EDT

  • Adventures in Dating #1: Daffy Duck

    A few years ago, I went out a few times with a guy named T. (All names in this series will be changed to protect the innocent.) I met T on Match.com, which was my "get back on the horse" method for re-entering the dating pool whenever I got dumped, [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:39pm EDT

  • Apologies and excuses

    Yeah, so I never blog anymore. Work has gotten pretty crazy and I also just lack much in the way of motivation right now. Everything I want to say to the universe I say on Twitter, which means it only goes to the 60-something friends on my private feed. Oh [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:36pm EDT

  • My un-recipe for perfect peach pie

    For Labor Day weekend, I traveled to Biloxi to play some poker. (I haven't been able to bring myself to write about the trip yet, and maybe never will. It wasn't bad at all, but stuck alone with my thoughts for the weekend and the long drive back, I feel [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 10:24am EDT

  • Today's Video Interlude (contains NSFW language)



    "What, you're not hungry?"' [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 1:58pm EDT

  • What's the Matter with Georgia?



    Despite the creeping approach of legalized gambling along Georgia's borders with North Carolina, Alabama and Florida, our state continues to steadfastly oppose legalized gambling initiatives. The closest we have come to anything approximating a casino in Georgia is the proposed revamping of Underground Atlanta [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 2:06pm EDT

  • Legal Bullshit

    Given my chosen profession, I have a natural fundamental respect for the rule of law. I believe that it must be adhered to unless adherence is either impossible or unconstitutional. But sometimes, law creates impossible situations, little cracks where a few unlucky citizens can fall in and become trapped. At [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:47pm EDT

  • The Lion Is Gone


    For eight years, Ted Kennedy was my Senator. And today he is dead.

    I am so sad today. For all of his mistakes, and he made plenty and some were terrible, Teddy spent 47 years in the Senate making sure that the good he [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:00am EDT

  • Advice to the 1999 me

    Inspired by this post at Extraface, I'm thinking what 3 things I would tell myself 10 years ago if I could travel back in time and give some quick advice. I think they would be:

    1. Appreciate your 24 year old figure and work harder to keep it:[...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 4:47pm EDT

  • Supreme Court orders a hearing for Troy Davis

    (Cross-posted from Blog for Democracy)

    Today the Supreme Court shocked nearly everyone by granting relief on a direct habeas corpus petition for the first time in 50 years. The Court ordered that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia hold an evidentiary hearing on [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 11:33am EDT

  • Read this post

    There are stories like this all over the country. If you don't have one of your own yet, unfortunately you probably will at some point. This is why people want change, now.' [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:34am EDT

  • The blueprint

    Last night, I did not make it to Rep. Hank Johnson's town hall meeting on Healthcare due to work obligations and reports that a crowd of over 1000 were expected. The actual attendance numbers were likely well north of 1000 based upon on the ground reports, but the event overall [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 2:47pm EDT

  • Be Heard

    By now you have undoubtedly read the stories of Town Hall meetings and other public forums held by Congressmen that have devolved into protests, fights, and chaos. Well, if you want to see what all the fuss is about, you can come to Rep. Hank Johnson's town hall meeting on [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:22am EDT

  • See, I'm not crazy

    OK, maybe I still am crazy, but not because of my low pain threshhold or fear of the dentist. Apparently it's all the fault of my redheaded complexion. (Despite what you might think from the childhood photograph on the right, my hair is more red than blonde these days. That [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 10:13am EDT

  • Video clip of the day

    In re-reading my probably quite naive and starry-eyed healthcare wish list post below, I was ashamedly reminded of this scene from Mean Girls:

    [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 3:28pm EDT

  • And then there were two...

    Some of the most amazing lawyers I have ever worked for have been women, and nearly half of graduates of law schools today are female. So, for the past three years it has been downright unseemly to have only one woman on the nation's highest Court. Today, that discrepancy has [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 3:19pm EDT

  • My healthcare brain dump

    I'm certainly no health care policy specialist, but as people debate the various proposals and scary scenarios put forth in the effort to reform our healthcare system, I find myself increasingly feeling a need to clarify it all down into what I think should happen. So, without any recognition whatsoever' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
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