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The Backbencher: Food and Drink
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. July 01, 2010. Spree-fueled Spree Spree Leaves Dad Tasteless. Menards home improvement store. Photo by Huw Williams.). My wife and kids are away. I've been staying busy and eating right. At Menards, I bought a movie-theater-sized box of Spree it was only $1. I was excited about this, because previously, I'd only seen Spree come in comparatively small rolls. Posted by Eric E. Johnson. Save to del.ici...
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The Backbencher: For Lawyers
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. October 30, 2009. How Many Scintillas Does it Take to Win? One barrel of flour contains zero scintillas of evidence. Time is measured in minutes. Sugar, in spoonfuls. Rain, in inches. . Evidence, of course, is denominated in scintillas. . Whenever a lawyer or judge wants to emphasize the lack of evidence in favor of some party or proposition, we hear that familiar refrain, There is not one. I mean, it’s...
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The Backbencher: Fashion
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. August 25, 2008. You Just Lost the Olympics. The Olympics are now over, and it’s time to tally up the winners and losers. And that brings us to the biggest loser of the games: Nike. Usain Bolt accomplished all he did in sparkling metallic-gold Pumas. Yup, that wasn’t a typo: I’m talking about Puma-brand athletic shoes. More than that, his very smiling presence on television seems to say, If you want to ...
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The Backbencher: For Law Students
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. October 30, 2009. How Many Scintillas Does it Take to Win? One barrel of flour contains zero scintillas of evidence. Time is measured in minutes. Sugar, in spoonfuls. Rain, in inches. . Evidence, of course, is denominated in scintillas. . Whenever a lawyer or judge wants to emphasize the lack of evidence in favor of some party or proposition, we hear that familiar refrain, There is not one. I mean, it’s...
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The Backbencher: For Law Profs
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. September 01, 2010. I recently kissed my wife good-bye at the airport and took off for California, where, just days before, a federal district court had declared a ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional. Many of those who support the ban on gay marriage argue that marriage between a man and a woman will be devalued if same-sex couples are allowed to marry. "Huh? But how could this happen? Well, I wa...
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The Backbencher: Film
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. December 31, 2008. For Your Consideration - Disney/Pixar's. Some of the WALL-E merchandise in transit from Disney/Pixar to a landfill near you:. From top to bottom:. Plug-in video game, light-up pillow, programmable robot, throw, book that makes sounds when you press the buttons. After all, you don't need a ballot to not. But I am certain that back in La La Land, execs have purchased acres of ad space i...
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The Backbencher: Consumer Products
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. March 31, 2010. Consumer Alert: Nourishing Body Wash. While taking a shower, I noticed we have a new bottle of Dove Nourishing Body Wash on the chrome do-hickey that is hung on the shower head. As soon as I saw this I realized that I MUST BLOG ABOUT THIS RIGHT AWAY. . What Dove has created here is truly a miracle: I mean, think about this -. Right from their soap. Clean you as you eat them. Look, if you...
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The Backbencher: Current Affairs
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. December 31, 2009. This Decade was Certainly "This Decade" - No Doubt About That. Back in 1999, at the end of the Nineties, I wondered what the new decade, the first decade of the Third Millennium, would be called. . Would people refer to it as the Aughts, the Noughts, or the Zeros? Or would it be something utterly unique? But what did we end up calling this decade? What name eventually stuck? The one o...
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The Backbencher: Automobiles
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. May 19, 2008. Baby Furniture to Creep You Out for a Lifetime. I write today to tell you about one of the scariest products ever to be offered for sale anywhere in the world: the lifetime crib. When your child is old enough, the lifetime crib converts into a toddler bed. After more years have gone by, it converts into a full-size bed. BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO MAJORLY CREEP MYSELF OUT. THAT’S WHY. Baby’s D...
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The Backbencher: Marriage and/or Economics
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Subscribe to this blog's feed. Eric E. Johnson. Feeling Bad About Yourself. Without the Wife and Kids. September 01, 2010. I recently kissed my wife good-bye at the airport and took off for California, where, just days before, a federal district court had declared a ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional. Many of those who support the ban on gay marriage argue that marriage between a man and a woman will be devalued if same-sex couples are allowed to marry. "Huh? But how could this happen? Well, I wa...
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