Russian site says "Tomorrow is the first official day of work [after holidays]! We wish you all luck in surviving it, and hope that your work day won't resemble the one that is timesheeted [it works in Russian] in this caricature:"

Below the picture, it has a Russian translation of the caricature and asks for comments if the translation is incorrect in any way.

The blog is called "Judicial Blog." That's all I'm bored enough to TL right now.

i dont speak russian, but apparently google does. i pasted a link below. if that doesn't work, just go to the google products page, translate, and paste the link.

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffin-lawyer.ru%2F2009%2Fposlenovogodnyaya-vedomost-ucheta-rabochego-vremeni%2F&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0=

Thanks 2!
--Elie

What good is sonar to someone who can't hear? and why would someone who is deaf need help finding a jury box unless he was also... oh i get it you meant blind... I see how that would be confusing.

Sixthy!

There's no one left who still uses "begging the question" properly if Elie Mystal misuses the phrase and since he butchered it, I guess that's that.

Wow!! A Lateral Link site redesign!!

Shouldn't we dedicate a whole post to this rather than just bury it in the non-sequiturs?

So only liberal causes can be pro bono?

And BTW, the author of that article about the Purple Line should realize that only ignoramuses like Al Gore still believe in man-made global warming (if it exists at all).

Wow!! A Lateral Link site redesign!!

Shouldn't we dedicate a whole post to this rather than just bury it in the non-sequiturs?

The big news that isn't reported here: ATL just LOST to Volokh in the weblog poll! Dethroned from 2007's first place to second in the 2008 annual poll, ATL continues to suffer defeat after humiliating defeat. Editor in Chief Elie MysTTTal issued the following statement.

"This devellopment in know weigh reflects on tha quality of our web cite.. We continue, to follow the highest standerds of journalistic integritty:

Yo F*&#$ all dat!! Obama in da house yo! Now gimme mah twinkies, beeotch! Free OJ!"

7 - I use "begging the question" properly. I always get the feeling nobody knows what I'm talking about when I say it, though, since EVERYBODY uses it incorrectly.

What's this I hear about Cahill Gordon layoffs?

The original meaning of "begging the question" is beyond redemption. I know it, but have long ago given up trying to correct anyone on it. I'd be happy if people just figured out its/it's and their/there/they're.

non-freezing firms
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Remind me of the episode in which Peter fits in Stewie's onesie. Peter = Ellie but more articulate.

12 - Do you use 'douchetard' correctly? Try saying "I am a giant duechetard." There you go.

14 - 12 here; "Begging the question" is one of my pet peeves, and every single time I see it in print I wince, and every single time someone says it to (... which begs the question: blah blah), I say to them "No it doesn't. It invites the question. It certainly doesn't beg the question. Yes, I'm a grammar jackass; I admit this."

The Russian translation completely missed the point -- it translated the crossed-out language as "completed" and the the other language as "still to do."

18, you are not a "grammar jackass." You are a logic jackass. I, too, cringe when i hear "begs the question" used improperly. Problem is, news people, authors, politicians, even law professors use it wrong. What are we to do? We need to a new phrase to describe circular reasoning.

20 - Um, there's the Latin phrase, I think it's petitio principii, but who uses Latin any more?

Superjew hates Latin. Superjew only speaks Hebrew and Swalihi (to direct trusty sidekick Supernegro).

Elie finally made me laugh with the Caroline Kennedy joke.