What, it takes three years of law school to do that?
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore.
House Likko's Words:
Scite Verum.
Colite Iusticia.
Vivere Con Gaudium.
Burt Likko nearly cheats on his abstention vows.
So, how's that avoid-the-political-BS-machine thing going, Burt?
Burt Likko thought he'd found an obscure and delightful piece of Americana. Turns out he was only...
Burt Likko undertakes to sample the life of an idiot.
The suckiest Labor Day weekend Kim Davis can remember will turn out to have been only fifteen...
Close encounters of the candidate kind.
We have moved one step closer to being in the best of all possible worlds.
An indulgence in what would be an act of political courage and principle, if it were to...
I see that this is a thing now. I can't articulate a good objection to it.
But that...
This essay is about reading gay porn before class. And it resurrects an Ideological Outrage Of The...
An auditory treat, if not an olfactory one.
When headline writers use questions, Burt Likko answers them. Briefly, completely, and unabashedly expressing his own opinion....
Year Four of our online game of Dungeons and Dragons for NFL fans.
In which Presidential peccadilloes, parables of patrimony, and persuasive proof pool to peer into a prosaic psyche.
Looking for suggestions in the decidedly unlikely event of lunch with a member of Congress.
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Ice cream. It's all that.
But Burt Likko can't enjoy it because his wallet's fat.
Even when they're really rich and really famous and really attractive, other peoples' actual lives are typically...
