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Non-Sequiturs: 12.04.07

Hillary Nutcracker Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Above the Law blog.jpg* Is Nicolas Sarkozy's son -- "a law student with flowing locks," described by one ATL reader as "kinda hot" -- getting favorable treatment in his traffic case? [Times Online]

* Speaking of President Sarkozy, good for him for telling the French to "get off their derrieres and back to work." [What About Clients?]

* Professor Kaimipono Wenger on polygamy: Is it good for the environment? [Concurring Opinions]

* Professor Howard Wasserman on the Adam Key / Pat Robertson finger case: "[T]his lawsuit has no chance." [PrawfsBlawg]

* John Grisham on Dickie Scruggs: "[I] could not believe he would be involved in such a boneheaded bribery scam that is not in the least bit sophisticated. I don’t believe it." [WSJ Law Blog]

* A very cool Christmas gift, inspired by our favorite lawyer-turned-politician. Note: Site features loud-ish music, so you may wish to turn down your speakers before clicking through. [The Official Hillary Nutcracker Site]

* A Dante-themed Blawg Review, from the previous winner of the Blawg Review of the Year Award for 2005 and 2006. [Infamy or Praise via Blawg Review]

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1 Posted by First | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:04 PM

Everyone, everywhere, has been described by at least one ATL reader as "kinda hot."

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2 Posted by First here, again | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:09 PM

It's like the 21st Century corollary to Andy Warhol's observation about everyone getting 15 minutes of fame.

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:24 PM

Sarkozy (Jr.) is the penultimate in hotness.

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:39 PM

5:24,
Why do I get the feeling that you don't know the meaning of the word "penultimate"?

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:40 PM

Penultimate hotness. Nice.

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:40 PM

CORNELL LAW SCHOOL!

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 6:06 PM

Penultimate to 190!

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 6:28 PM

re: n. sarkozy
woof!!

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9 Posted by Fouad (from Family Guy) | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 6:43 PM

6:38

It's funny because the French are always sitting on their derrieres!

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10 Posted by FRAT IDIOT | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 6:53 PM

I am a total moron [with a crap job] [at a crap law school] and no one thinks my schtick is funny but me.

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 7:15 PM

Hillary is a communist lesbian

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12 Posted by appreciative lesbian | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 7:17 PM

communist lesbians are hot

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13 Posted by Appreciative straight guy | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 8:08 PM

Lesbians in general are hot.

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14 Posted by Hillary Clinton | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 9:40 PM

When I am President, I am going to give a subsidy to all hot lesbians and pay for it with a special new tax on all heterosexual lawyers. I like to call the plan, "Buying Votes (and sexual favors) from Hot Lesbians".

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15 Posted by Just Want to Know | Permalink Tuesday, December 4, 2007 11:21 PM

What's up with Hillary and Huma?

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, December 5, 2007 2:22 AM

"A Westlaw search in the ALLFEDS database found no cases even mentioning § 1011a. That should be a pretty good hint that this provision does not provide a basis for a private civil action."

I love this legal argument for some reason....

I am going to use it the next time I write a memorandum for the Court.

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17 Posted by mmm. nice way to be ignorant | Permalink Wednesday, December 5, 2007 4:02 AM

...about exactly what Sarko Sr. (the president) is taking about...I'll make no comment about the Sarko Jr. case, because anyone who has gone through the familial mess that he has (e.g., Papa's wife #2 just divorced him, after having left him publicly to live in New York a couple of years ago with another man...Sarko Sr. himself was married with wife #1 and the mayor of the Paris suburb of Neuilly when he performed the wedding of wife #2 to another man...and promptly fell in love with her then and there, and wooed her until she relented, divorced hubby #1, etc., etc.)

The French president was referrring in his comments to a specific minority of the overall French workforce that works in these unionized public sector jobs that have superb retirement benefits, et. al....and quite frankly, have you checked some of the public sector jobs in the U.S. that permit retirement just as early (i.e., military, police, etc.) with full pensions? How about the employees in the public sector in other EU countries like Italy that also enjoy spectacular benefits at ridiculously early retirement age?

Not to mention the increasingly large percentage of French workers that enjoy none of these early retirement benefits...but of course, that would not fulfill a nice snarky commentary about how all French are "lazy."
And BTW, Sarko's comments are carefully chosen; it has not been all puppies and rainbows for those who advocate less government intervention in private business during his regime...he has demonstrated in the past few months that he is very supportive of protectionist measures to assure that certain domestic industries have advantages, and "survive"...so much for his much publicized platform of letting the market determine business policy.

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18 Posted by blah | Permalink Wednesday, December 5, 2007 8:03 AM

I was going to bitch about the promotion of this misogynist Hillary bullshit, but after reading the other comments on this thread, why bother?

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19 Posted by GUNNER | Permalink Wednesday, December 5, 2007 9:45 AM

I was totally studying this last night, brah. The answer is that whatshenena didn't get out to me yesterday, but Hillaryyyyy's Nuuuuutz did.

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20 Posted by uhlc 1L | Permalink Wednesday, December 5, 2007 10:26 AM

I always pull out my Geraldine Ferraro nutcracker for the holidays.

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21 Posted by dizave | Permalink Wednesday, December 5, 2007 10:51 AM

Nice privacy policy.

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