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No Ma'am, I'm Just a Paralegal
Life at the Bottom of the Legal Food Chain
JoeinAustin
- Location
- Austin, Travis, Rep. of Tex.
- Birthday
- March 05
- Bio
- Born in the oil and gas deposit-rich region of North Texas, on the fraying edge of the Permian Basin, my mother was a special ed teacher, my father, a “pumper,” a far more glamorous job among the petroletariat than the name would indicate. I managed to escape the small town that spawned me promptly after High School graduation, a modicum of sanity still intact to ride shotgun with my generous portions of anger and resentment. Some five years later, I copped a BS degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Said institution and I gladly parted ways. In the intervening 20-plus years, though my only ambition has been to have ambition, I have miraculously coughed-up a boatload of freelance articles, a couple of books of dubious merit, and a metric ton of songs of occasionally inspired quality, not to mention a paralegal certificate, 11 years of experience as a legal underling, and tens of thousands of bicycle commuter miles.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Nice idea, but Texas has
seen its share of battles
already.
Texas won one
against…”
November 10, 2009 10:20AM - “One-nil. Make sure to
see David Brooks' column at
NYT
today.
http://www.nytimes.c
230;”
November 10, 2009 09:45AM - “Listening to BBC-- the
debate on Muslims in the
military has
started. I may
not k…”
November 06, 2009 01:36PM - “You are so right,
Julie!! Luckily, I
Gloria-Gaynored it!!!
I
survived!”
October 30, 2009 07:38PM - “Hi Lemon and Arianna:
I'm fine. It's been a few
years since
it happened.
Strange…”
October 30, 2009 07:11PM
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Comments
Then again, if Texas secedes, it's not clear if I would even be a citizen of it, since I was born in one of those puny little states.
It's like I'm a citizen with a job and a sense of civic duty, or something.
What's THEIR story?
The world will be a better place without Texas in the Union. Lets do a swap with Puerto Rico.
I'm also curious to see how many people actually showed up for these tax protests. One local Austin news outlet estimated about 1000 people were at the City Hall event earlier, which seems pretty paltry compared to the immigration/labor rallies of the past couple of years that shut down major downtown streets.
For the most part the Austinites I saw passing this group by either---kept walking without making eye contact, mocked them, or snickered. It's just sad.
Off topic, but if Perry's hair and Blago's hair went at it "Celebrity Death Match" style, which 'do would win?
Second comment is that he shamelessly panders to whatever group he thinks can help him. He was a Democrat until it became convenient to switch parties. He told a fundamentalist congregation that non-Protestants can't go to heaven (bet he doesn't say that when trying to woo the right-wing Catholics). My favorite was when he insisted on saying a few words at the opening of SXSW a few years ago and said "This old Republican knows how to rock!"
Thank goodness the Texas Constitution keeps real power in the legislature. Not to say there aren't plenty of scary people there, but at least it keeps power from being concentrated in the hands of one person. It isn't hard to imagine that people like Perry were exactly what the framers had in mind.