Once Again, the Onion speaks too much truth to be funny...almost...

26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He Ever Went To High School With On Night Before Thanksgiving | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

NEW YORK—For the fifth straight year, Jordan McCabe will return home for the holidays and spend the night before Thanksgiving running into every smug and unlikable asshole he ever went to high school with, the 26-year-old reported Monday.

The trip back home, scheduled for later this week, will reportedly bring McCabe face-to-face with an endless string of pricks from his past, each of whom he will have to engage in awkward conversation, and generally pretend to be happy about seeing again.

"They're all going to be there," said McCabe, purchasing an Amtrak train ticket for Rochester, NY. "Every last one of them, just as shitty and conceited and phony as ever."

a lawyer with an ego? who knew?

For all the times that my lawyer and lawschool friends, especially here on LJ, keep saying "lawyers aren't like that", well, I run into one of these...

Respectful Insolence: File under: "Thermonuclear, The Stupid, It Burns":

"We have to redefine who we are: We are the most important people in America," Spence said. "There is no other profession in America that fights for freedom, that fights for what America is about, that fights for justice for ordinary people."

To make his point, Spence -- founder of the Trial Lawyers College, which trains lawyers to be more effective in the courtroom -- said to imagine that all of the doctors and healers somehow vanished.

"I want to ask you which would be more important: If all of the doctors in the country somehow disappeared or all the trial lawyers in America somehow disappeared?" he asked. "We can live without medical care, but we cannot live without justice."

I almost wonder if he was writing this to rehearse for a session in front of congress to ask the federal government for a bailout check?

just a documentary...

But still, this is cool...

Blackadder cast return for Christmas special - Yahoo! News UK:

The cast of hit comedy series Blackadder will return to the small screen in a one-off documentary over Christmas as part of the BBC's seasonal schedule.

The broadcaster said "Blackadder Rides Again" would feature the first in-depth interview with actor Rowan Atkinson, who played Edmund Blackadder and his descendants in the show's four series between 1983 and 1989.

Other stars from the historical comedy taking part in the behind-the-scenes feature include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson and Tony Robinson, who played Blackadder's long-suffering sidekick Baldrick.

wow...

The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com:

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.

it's long reading, so printing it up would be good (cut-n-paste it into an editor so the formatting doesn't waste whitespace and paper).