197 -- as you requested:

"God told Moses, take off your shoes, Moses, and approach the burning bush.

And Moses did, and burnt his feet.

And God said Ha! Third one today!"

How about some coverage of Michigan's new medical marijuana law ?

Now if you don't mind, I need to take care of my glaucoma, if you know what I mean.

"Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that."

Oh, we'll miss you, Detective Nordberg.

I am definitely signing him to my penal league fantasy football team.

That Clifford Chance article lumps in Skadden with the bonus-slashers. Ouch.

"Staying here is not an option."

Sadly, that is being said at a lot of firms, but for less bizarre reasons.

Dear Associate:

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. It's not an option.

Love, Partners

15 -- I wonder how the headhunter business is going, actually. Got to be hard times for them, too. Sure, supply of out-of-work folks is high, but they don't see a penny until somebody actually gets hired. Poor headhunters...

I am already tired of the layoffula crap. Dude, these are people's jobs we are talking about -- no need to reduce it to a children's program mockery.

Cravath sent me a job offer from Skadden.

That is an awesome gift!

layoffula is a fraud.

The most humorous part of the entire process was when Roberts turned around after swearing in Obama and shouted "No HoMo!"

169 --

Of all the stupid crap that appears in the comments here, you just won the award for most insensitive jackass stupid commenter ever. How could you even think for a second posting something like that was appropriate? That is just ridiculous.