As an attorney, I’m required to be a member of the Washington State Bar Association and had to pay $450 a year in dues. I belong to the California State Bar Association to which I pay dues as well. This year, a Spokane attorney got enough signatures to have a referendum voted on to lower the dues…
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In September of 2010, CNN announced that British television personality, Piers Morgan would be taking over the retiring Larry King’s television spot. King was winding down his long and prestigious broadcast career on a bit of a low note at CNN. His ratings had declined significantly in a time-slot that pitted him up against fiery,…
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I have good news and bad news. Actually, I don’t. What I have is the appearance of good news and the reality of bad news. First what looks like the good news: The unemployment rate has dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 8.1. Now the bad news: Some of the decline has resulted…
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I recently wrote an article about my disdain for Hollywood remakes and someone commented and said “I strongly suggest you step out of your age-ism and try really hard to recognize that the world we live in is not the one you grew up in.” Well, clearly I’m aware that the world we live in is not the one…
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I put the words Obama is cool in Google and got 301,000,000 hits. I also Googled Jesus son of God and got a measly 33,000,000. This doesn’t surprise me since my liberal friends have told me countless times that Mr. Obama is the real messiah. Speaking of cool, the other night – trying to shore…
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Last week, President Obama’s reelection campaign received a lot of media attention with the release of a video advertisement detailing the president’s decision to conduct the successful raid on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan last year. Almost immediately, criticism streamed in from Republicans who argued that it was inappropriate to politicize such a unifying,…
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Alright, maybe I’m not the right person to be talking about fashion. After all, if you look in my closet, you’ll see 97% black clothing, an itsy bit of blue for jeans, and a smidgen of lime green. At this time of my life, I’ve adopted the Yul Brynner philosophy of dressing. I wear black…
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I didn’t vote in the first two presidential elections that I was of age to participate in. Why not? Well, the truth is that I simply didn’t care. I didn’t think it really mattered which candidate won the presidency. To me, elections weren’t worth the time to stand in a long voting line and cast…
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