Opinionistas
Opinionistas bills itself as "a continuous observation of the ridiculousness of human behavior." Many of the posts are about law-firm life. Categories on the site include "self-indulgent, semi-lucid thoughts" and "firm absurdity."
Author: Author Melissa Lafsky is a nonpracticing attorney living in downtown Manhattan. She was an associate editor at The Huffington Post and is now editor for freakonomics.com.
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Recent Posts from Opinionistas
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Hacked!
It’s one of those Internet inevitabilities: Hang around the Web long enough, and you’re gonna get hacked by some dude named Alexei in Estonia who’s carrying out his master plan to take over every URL…
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So, Uh, There’s This Election
It’s pretty safe to say that no one will look back on 2008 and say “Jesus, what a boring year that was.” Those of us who make it ’til New Years (bankers, step away from…
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Third Time’s a Charm
Last presidential debate, last presidential debate liveblog. Although technically I didn’t actually liveblog the first debate — my computer was down so I just yelled my would-be blog entries into the empty vacuum. Somehow shooting…
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Ever More Sound & Fury
In case you missed the fireworks last night (and are at all bothered by this fact), a few colleagues and I liveblogged the debate over at the Huffington Post. Though honestly, all there really is…
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A Little Light Reading, While Rome Burns
By no coincidence, it’s much more fun to write about crappy movies than good ones. Also, for the record, I’m not an atheist — I just wish the people who make a living preaching that…
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The Sudden, Butt-Kicking Truth
It’s hard not to pick up on all the little mantras as you go through life–those pedagogic sayings and catchy idioms meant to jog us out of our daily bitchings. They spring forth from Hallmark…
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Foreclosing on Valhalla
One of the nice things about getting older is the number of gods in the universe starts to shrink. I used to have boatloads of gods. They mostly consisted of My Elders — not so…
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The Part of Me Will Be Played By…
The funny think about splitting up with someone after many years is that you find yourself totally reconfigured as a person. All the things you thought you knew about yourself–those qualities you’d pasted onto your…
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Down the Blogging Abyss
I’ve been getting plenty of questions about this, most of them along the lines of: “Does this mean you’re plunging down the moral abyss into lurid sex journalism?” Well, no, assuming there is some abyss…
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Selling Your Eggs: No Big Deal?
This piece also appeared in The Huffington Post. Last week, I heard a panel of women speak in a Lower East Side bar. They each had three things in common: They were magazine-cover gorgeous, had…