Category: Miscellanea

  • I Don’t Get It.

    I have nothing against credit card companies or other commercial lenders. They provide a valuable service at the rates (prices) the free market will bear, and that’s a good thing. That said, I am sometimes amazed at some of the great deals a credit card company will offer me. Like the cash-back program one credit…

  • Hello World.

    A few of the search terms people have used to find this site in the last 24 hours which have suddenly spiked in popularity: ed cottrell cottrell baker botts edblog “ed cottrell” blog I assume some of those folks are my new co-workers. Hello! Don’t worry, all; it’s pretty harmless on here. Some of the…

  • Blogging Hiatus?

    As much as I’ve enjoyed playing around with this site in the last couple of weeks, alas, the real world calls. I start at Baker Botts, tomorrow, as does Sarah. So, perhaps there will be a bit of a break in the blogging. To all five of my readers: please come back; I will not…

  • Insult on Top of Injury

    Like so many others, Sarah and I studied for the bar via BAR/BRI, though we used the iPod home study course because Chicago’s academic year ran halfway through the BAR/BRI Texas course. So, we got our iPods, diligently studied, and hopefully passed the Texas bar. Then we sent our iPods back for refunds of our…

  • “Car Free” Days a Wash, At Best

    Hilarious. People try to be environmentally friendly by completely and randomly interfering with other people’s lives, and they unsurprisingly make a hash of things: Only in Seattle could an event touted as a way to help the environment get washed out during what is supposed to be the driest time of the year. Car-free days…