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Archive for November, 2008

  • Why I quit the practice of law. | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 30 2008
  • Economists do and say the darnedest things. | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 29 2008
  • Things found in strange places | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 29 2008
  • Things you never expected to see from Paul Gowder | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 28 2008
  • notes from a fortified compound somewhere in Los Angeles… Paul goes a little gonzo for Black Friday, wishes the Good Doctor were still with us … contemplating turning the whole blog gonzo, but did he try something like that before? and did it go terribly, terribly wrong? | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 28 2008
  • Help me advise a 1L part II: “This whole pomo individualistic idealism is totally screwing up my generation. Everyone wants it all. And life doesn’t always work that way.” | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 27 2008
  • Roundup from the Southern Fortress | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 26 2008
  • TK/B/B: Adrienne Rich on Los Angeles (and, you know, mortality and the sublime and other stuff less important than my beloved hometown), not love, politics, or religion edition. With special bonus Byron footnotes, also referencing mortality and the sublime, but with an intrusion of politics and sadly no Los Angeles. | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 25 2008
  • Wisdom | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 24 2008
  • Yeats, Symbols. | Posted by Paul Gowder on Nov 24 2008
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