Non-Sequiturs: 11.16.07
* So what are your legal remedies if she cheats on you anyway? [copyranter]
* While we’re visiting copyranter: another day, another animal kingdom law firm ad. [copyranter]
* Did the Fifth Circuit go easy on Judge Kent? There may be more here than meets the eye. [How Appealing]
* Eric Turkewitz delivers a New York City marathon-themed Blawg Review. Very cool! [New York Personal Injury Blog via Blawg Review]
P.S. Speaking of the NYC marathon, thanks to the many ATL readers who supported our efforts to raise funds for cancer research. Our fundraising goal was $2,500; thanks to you, we easily exceeded that goal. Our fundraising page will remain up through the end of the year, and your donations are still welcome. If you’re looking for more tax deductions after getting that big bonus check, just click here.
As for our performance in the marathon, we finished in 4:43:27 (good enough for inclusion in the New York Times marathon results supplement, which includes everyone who finishes in under five hours — sorry, Katie Holmes). We were slower this time around than when we ran it in 2005. But considering that we actually trained in 2005 — unlike this year, when the longest run we did before the marathon was a 10-mile run back in April — we were pleased.
(22) Comments
Comments
Longest was 10 miles?!? Damn!
Why OH WHY does Lat insist on referring to himself as "we"?
Katie Homes ran the New York marathon? Seriously?
"We"? Did you run half and Merck run half?
We? what a schizo. hey, you're not Perez Hilton.
We find this practice very irritating, Lat.
I thought he was always parodying courts with "we"
I dig the Royal We. Plus I also think it's a reference to his split personality -- Lat/A3G, from UTR.
I meant to say alter ego...
What's all this WE shit?
Come out, come out, wherever we are!!!!
Read the op-ed, Casey's not saying "go easy on Judge Kent" (though the title is misleading), he's saying "I may have been wrong when I said the judicial committee was going easy on him." I think we all still agree Kent's an asshole to the n'th degree worthy of serious prosecution.
PASSED!!!
Passed!
People have been complaining about the "we" business ever since ATL launched.
You can complain more if you want, but I doubt that Lat (and his invisible friends) are going to ditch it.
Though Casey is still saying that they DID go easy on him. He acknowledges that they may not have had all the facts, but says that what facts they did have clearly constituted assault.
(12:01) but he'll still be a d-bag saying we, right?
And you'll still be reading his website at 4 AM, making money for him while he sleeps.
hey...nice picture of Lat in blawg review!
Where is LEWW?
As Admiral Hyman G. Rickover told a subordinate who used the royal we, "Three groups are permitted that usage: pregnant women, royalty, and schizophrenics. Which one are you?"
Blawg Review writes: "And congrats, as well, to David Lat of Above the Law fame, who actually ran the New York City Marathon this year finishing in under five hours and bettering the time of his previous NYC Marathon."
BR doesn't understand how races work. Faster is better.
Sorta like when golfers say "I got more points than Tiger Woods!"