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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    12:02 AM

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    The Times was being kind to the Tour d'Argent, I think. Sure, some of their problem probably comes from the recession, but they lost two of their three stars, their revenues would be way down no matter what the economy was doing.

    Sidenote: doesn't Tour d'Argent mean Tower of Money? Because whoa, irony.
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    Image of kappakappaspankme kappakappaspankme
    12/04/09

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    I have absolutely no problems with paying tax. That said...I wish my money didn't have to benefits asshats like the sign holder.

    Some want to opt out of Social Security because they think they can manage their money better than the Government. I want to opt out in the name of spite.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/04/09

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    And my sign says:

    "I'd Love to Be Overtaxed and Socialist If I knew When I'd Have My Next Meal."
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    Image of Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn
    12/04/09

    @miss_msry: Seriously. That's the first thing that came to mind: that person has NEVER gone hungry for lack of money.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/04/09

    @[gawker.com]

    That's pretty obvious considering this sign wasn't inked in their own saliva and blood and excrement. Which is pretty much all the poors have left with which to communicate.
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/04/09

    @miss_msry: My sign says "I'd rather have scurvy and rickets than affordable healthcare because I'm a dumbass who thinks lowering taxes on billionaires is actually going to stimulate the economy or help my sorry, sick ass in any way." On the other side it says "Go Tigers."
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    12/04/09

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    My backup plan is pornography, but the details of that plan are sketchy.
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    12/04/09

    @Brad Brown: Back it up, Brown.
    [The Awl]
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    12/04/09

    @Brad Brown: My backup plan was moving to Northern California and growing pot, but after pot is legalized the market will just be taken over by Archer Midlands or Smithfield Farms. I may have to join you in the porn, but I've heard times are getting hard (no pun intended) for the pornmeisters because there is too much free stuff on the internets. I'm thinking Ponzi scheme may be the way to go.
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    Image of bodegacat bodegacat
    12/04/09

    In reply to Yahoo Confirms: Holiday Blowout Cancelled
    I hear Cindy-Lou Yahoo will gather everyone together for a touching rendition of "Welcome Christmas."
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    12/04/09

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    Something tells me this person isn't overtaxed. It also seems like they ran into a space problem with the final "t."
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    Image of AnnaZed AnnaZed
    12/04/09

    @MyNameIsChris: More like a plug-ignorant illiteracy problem (spelled socialist as "socialis" ~ not the first time I have seen that) patched up at the ninth hour. No wonder the poor bastard is unemployable.
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    Image of nozer nozer
    12/04/09

    @MyNameIsChris: Their brain might be, though.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/04/09

    @AnnaZed: Yep, I've seen communiss too.
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    Image of Btwbfdimho Btwbfdimho
    12/04/09

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    Sarah?
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    12/04/09

    In reply to Soon There Will Be No Excuse For Not Having a Crappy Job
    how the hell is OTB $80m in debt when (according to the article) they make $1b in bets every year? Don't they take a cut on the payout? Unless Monty Brewster rolled in and put $50,000 on every longshot to win at Aqueduct, how the hell is it a losing business?
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    12/04/09

    @lobstr: Any business can lose money if it spends more money than it takes in. Something tells me that gamblers and low overhead don't go together.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/04/09

    In reply to Yahoo Confirms: Holiday Blowout Cancelled
    Perhaps they saw the Yelp pictures and despaired.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/04/09

    In reply to Andrew Parker: Socialite, Boutique Owner, Alleged Thief and Pornographer
    When are these "socialites" going to open up their own "social clubs" and offer unregulated gaming and lending services?
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/04/09

    In reply to Andrew Parker: Socialite, Boutique Owner, Alleged Thief and Pornographer
    Trustslutians? I'd buy a ticket.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    This also shows that Comcast/NBCU deal not about digital/online but about TV channels. Short-sighted.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/03/09

    Update: Comcast is excited about Web video -- just not websites without video.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Path From Failed Farmer to Harvard Lawyer Just Got More Perilous
    As I think has been discussed here before, many big firms are paying some of their associates or soon-to-be associates about 1/3 of their salary (which is still quite a lot) to work for a year or two in the public sector before working at the firm (though who knows if their jobs will still be there when they are done). As a result, I've heard that many public sector jobs have more lawyers applying than they can use.

    So this situation at Harvard may suck for some 3Ls who never tried to get a big-firm job in the first place, but I don't think it is hurting the public sector too much, at least not for the time being.
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    Image of GaythamWatkins GaythamWatkins
    12/03/09

    @Atilla the Bun: It'll hurt the public sector when all of those people head back to the firms at the end of their exile, and all of the people who wanted to work for the public sector are too frozen in their boxes under the BQE (one of New York's classier expressways) to lateral.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Path From Failed Farmer to Harvard Lawyer Just Got More Perilous
    This is such a shame. I know many law students who have a strong desire to work in the public sector but it's just not a realistic option for them. The monstrous student loan debt means they would have to make some very hard sacrifices. There are very few public sector jobs that pay a decent wage that allows them to pay off their debt and still be able to eat anything other than beans from a can. I know NYU had a terrific loan repayment program for their law students that only required them to work 3 years at a non-profit or public sector job. I hope they won't have to curtail or cancel their entire program as well. I wouldn't blame Harvard students if they decided to chase after Larry Summers with pitchforks and torches.
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    Image of grahameday grahameday
    12/03/09

    @heywhat: I graduated from NYU five years ago, and they changed their loan repayment program during my final year. It used to require that students commit to work five years in the public sector, and they increased it to ten. Whether, and how much is repaid on one's loans by their program is based on a sliding scale, depending on how much you make. It's quite complicated now, particularly for those who want to be stay-at-home mothers or fathers for a year or two and then return to work in the public sector again.
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    Image of GaythamWatkins GaythamWatkins
    12/03/09

    @heywhat: Not to indulge too much in Negative Nancyhood, but NYU's repayment program isn't nearly that good. NYU does have the Root/Tilden/Kern scholarships--ones that, more often than not, go to a bunch of Those Kids who spend years irritating the heck out of you in Constitutional Law and Federal Courts, when they're not bolting to Yale the first chance they get--but the rest of the public interest rank-and-file have to deal with an LRAP plan that doesn't necessarily cover all loans and makes it functionally impossible to work for the federal government (whose starting salaries tend to be just high enough to make the LRAP contribution negligible). Add to this the huge number of deferred BigLaw associates who are pretending to care about gays/the environment/the homeless for a year before returning to Skadden for perpetual M&A, and you have one terrifyingly nerve-wracking public-interest job search for current 3Ls.

    Bitter? Me? Never.
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    12/04/09

    @GaythamWatkins: Thanks for this. My knowledge of NYU's loan repayment program was second and third hand. I didn't know it was so cumbersome. Whenever any school talks about starting a loan repayment program they always point to NYU's as the most successful model. You're right about all of the BigLaw associates who are ruining the job market for people who actually want to work in the public sector. Whenever I hear my friends complaining about their job prospects, I always ask why the BigLaw types are even getting jobs since everyone knows they will bolt the second the economy rebounds. I always get the same answer: a law degree from a prestigious school and/or good GPAs, law review ect. trump everything. It's like employers are label whores and only care about the superficial stuff.
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    12/04/09

    @grahameday: I didn't know it was ten years. You would never know from the way they market their LRAP program that they are not fully committed to helping lawyers who want to serve in the public sector but are not financially able.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/03/09

    In reply to DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities
    People don't want daily emails on useless expensive shit they could buy if they had any money, which they don't, so they can't?

    Advertisers don't want to pay to be part of daily emails about that?
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