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Pat Flemings Tweets

Patti's Comments: This was my friend Pat Flemings' imitation of my tweets/posts  he drafted before we had lunch with another pal, Pete Willman, last week. The really scary thing is how accurate he was!! I had to share!!

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Political Cartoon: "Courting Disaster?" by John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune

From Kaiser Health News:

Moses, Meet Steve.

Tom Toles Cartoons

From The Washington Post:

Tom Toles Cartoon

From The Washington Post:

Lady, You Stole the Wrong Snow Shovel

Patti's Comment:  I saw this on the news last night and all I could think of was: "Bloody Brilliant!"

Excerpt from Legal Juice: (click for article and video)

Under virtually any scenario, this lady would have gotten away with stealing (not borrowing - she didn't return it) a neighbor's shovel to dig out her car after the Chicago snowstorm. Unfortunately for her, the gent she stole the shovel from is in the video equipment business (think "surveillance cameras" - lots of them). So, having reviewed his footage and having seen it all go down, as you can below, he got his revenge (also included in the clip below).

Estate Planning Comic

From The Funnies:

10 Most Annoying Time-Wasters

Patti's Comments:  In honor of Election Day and hopefully an end to POLITICAL ROBO CALLS, I Share with you all the most annoying time wasters top ten list!

Excerpt from Listverse: (click for entire article)

There are all sorts of annoying things in life – people who cut in line, aggressive drivers, people talking on cell phones in public. This list is a specific subpart of that very large category. It focuses on the top ten things that both annoy and waste your time, or, more accurately, steal time away from you. These things steal time from your life that you would ordinarily have kept and used for, presumably, more fun and productive endeavors. Sit down and try to calculate how much time you estimate you have spent dealing with these annoyances. It’s startling to consider how much of our lives are spent overcoming these annoying obstacles. In all ten of these examples, I tried to focus on those annoyances that you either cannot avoid, or which are very difficult to avoid. Though this list contains, of course, some of my own most hated time-wasting annoyances, I tried to choose those that are universally annoying and wasteful. I hope you have fun with it.

Top 7 Greatest Cartoon Lawyers of All Time

Excerpt from California Law Report: (click for entire article)

The ABA Journal recently published a list of the 25 Greatest Fictional Lawyers (Who Are Not Atticus Finch) and Bitter Lawyer recently published a follow up list of the 10 Greatest Fictional Lawyers (Overlooked by the ABA Journal).

In that spirit, we decided there was a third list of imaginary lawyers that hadn’t fully been exploited by either list: the Greatest Cartoon Lawyers of all Time.

First, we had to set some ground rules for this list: we did not include any real life figures depicted in cartoons or drawings, such as a lawyer-politician in a political cartoon. We only included fictional animated lawyers.