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The Alabama Hammer Will Legal Your Brains Out

August 29, 2018 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Move over Law Hawk. Wait, don’t actually. Do more commercials. We love you. But we digress, there is a new contender for our pretend title of “Best Ever Legal Advertising Strategy.” The Alabama Hammer. If you squint it totally rhymes. The Alabama Hammer will also hunt down the big bucks for you. Oh yeah, a…

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7 Deadly Sins of Law School

August 29, 2018 by The Northwest 3L 2 Comments

Across the country, law students are entering their august institutions. We here at Bitter Lawyer are happy to guide these students through the perils of their epic quest for a J.D. by reposting helpful tidbits provided by those that came before them. Stand on the shoulders of bitter giants, students. Everything has its own special…

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: 7, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, seven, sins, sloth, wrath

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Dear Bitter Butch: How Do I Thank Someone For an Offensive Gift?

August 28, 2018 by Haddayr Copley-Woods 1 Comment

Dear Bitter Butch, This all happened decades ago, and so has long been resolved. But I’m asking on behalf of my teenaged self, and those disabled teenagers and their parents living in the present. I have cerebral palsy, which is a “from infancy” condition. I was also mainstreamed in school, and the only disabled kid in…

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The Shiny ‘Verse Of ‘The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet’

August 28, 2018 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet  Becky Chambers Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards for Best Newcomer Longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2015 Tiptree Award Shortlisted in the 2015 Kitschies for Best Debut I loved Becky Chamber’s debut novel…

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Maize Is The Video Game About Sentient Corn That You Didn’t Know You Needed

August 19, 2018 by Ian Boudreau Leave a Comment

Maize is a game about sentient corn, sort of. For a long time, I had this vague memory of watching a weird animated Christmas special that featured strange characters I hadn’t seen anywhere else. I remembered a stogie-chomping pink thing that I think was the villain and various bent-nosed forest creatures of indeterminate species. It…

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Off The Menu Grab Bag, Part 8

July 30, 2018 by C.A. Pinkham 44 Comments

RIP OTM, long live OTM.

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Off The Menu Grab Bag, Part 7

July 23, 2018 by C.A. Pinkham 35 Comments

This Off the Menu Grab Bag has an actual murder, so there you go.

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Off The Menu Grab Bag, Part 6

July 16, 2018 by C.A. Pinkham 38 Comments

We’re winding down Off the Menu, but the grab bags still have some delights.

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Dear Bitter Butch, Can I Correct Misused Idioms at Work?

July 12, 2018 by Haddayr Copley-Woods 1 Comment

Dear Bitter Butch, I just got an email from my supervisor that says, in part, “We need to flush out the agenda area with this additional content.” I need guidance. Is it appropriate to point out that the phrase is “flesh out,” not “flush out?” Or should I ask if she wants me to hunt…

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Off The Menu, Grab Bag Part 4

July 2, 2018 by C.A. Pinkham Leave a Comment

Vomiting babies, employees that don’t know how to mop up liquids, and more in this week’s Off the Menu grab bag.

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