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CLE vs. Blackberrys

At Legal Blog Watch, Carolyn Elefant writes about mandatory CLEs: From my perspective, mandatory CLE is a waste of time: Lawyers who want to stay at the top of their game will always take courses and read articles to stay current in their field, while those who have no interest in improving will take a […]

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Verdict on Polamalu Coke Zero commercial

Years ago, I loved the Coke commercial where a little boy offers a Coke to a tired Mean Joe Greene.  Great ad, especially considering that at the time, Greene was a fearsome and feared player.  So I was looking forward to the update of the ad with Steelers great Troy Polamalu. Post-game verdict: fun but […]

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Star Trek Superbowl ad rocks

I’ve been telling my family for months about the upcoming Star Trek movie, a reboot that will tell the story about how the Enterprise crew gets together.  As one might expect, my non-Trek family was not impressed, at least until they saw the new advertisement shown during yesterday’s Superbowl.   Afterwards, nearly everybody was ready to […]

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Troy Polamalu, Muppets, and Coke

The upcoming Superbowl is as good a time as any to see the Muppets’ great Mahna Mahna remixed as  a tribute to the Steelers’ Troy Polamalu: My sister and I loved singing the original as kids.  (Still do.)   Speaking of Polamalu, during the game he’ll be starring in a re-imagining of the classic Mean Joe […]

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