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Reason, Commerce, Justice & Free Beer
http://reasoncommercejustice.blogspot.com
An alternately serious and satirical collection of commentary on American life, constitutional law, happiness, human nature, relationships, power, current events and philosophical musings by a renegade lawyer. Updated regularly with fresh insights.
- Added on: May 14th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Balthazar Oesterhoudt
- Listed in: Social Commentary Humor
- Tags: satire law criticism hypocrisy fairness american life
Recent Posts
INVESTIGATING PEOPLE IS AN UGLY BUSINESS, EVEN IF IT IS WELL-INTENTIONED
AN ESSAYYesterday I saw the movie Doubt. In it, Meryl Streep plays a cantankerous Catholic schoolmaster who is determined to unseat the new parish priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) because she thinks he is abusing a troubled student. She has no direc...
MUST WE ALWAYS BE LINKED IN?
OESTERHOUDT STRIKES I don't like telephones. If I'm not expecting a call, I can't stand it when the phone rings. Basically, I don't like interruptions. I like focusing on things. I like dedicating my energy fully to a project and getting it done ...
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEARTLESS FORTUNATE PRICKS COMMITTED TO SOLVING EVERYONE ELSE\'S PROBLEMS WITH CONDESCENDING PLATITUDES AND RUDE QUIPS
POLITICAL PARTIES FOR A CHANGING WORLDBy : Mr. J. Curtis Hinckley, Official Party Spokesman; Ph. D., Yale University (Business Communications); Former Chairman, Conrad, Killrath & Wedgeworth, P.C., A Professional Corporation Serving Professional ...
AMERICAN TROOPS DON\'T NEED MODERN WEAPONS TO BEAT INSURGENTS AND TERRORISTS
A WORD FROM THE FRONTBy : Colonel Harold F. Ehrenkranz, United States Army, 443rd Infantry Regiment, Kabul, AfghanistanWe are winning the war. We easily defeated Saddam Hussein in 2003 and we drove Osama bin Laden like a rat from his cave. No matte...
SHAME OR GUILT : WHAT\'S THE DIFFERENCE?
AN ESSAYI tried to answer this question during a conversation I had with one of my best friends. We often talk about philosophy and power, and we both agreed that "shame" and "guilt" are "kindred spirits." They are both strongly negative words. No...
YOUR ENTIRE LIFE IS AN EXTERNALITY
AN ESSAYWhen I studied property law, I learned the word "externality." Before law school, I understood the word to mean what it says: "external to something else." But I soon found out that in the law, words do not always mean what they say in plai...
