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So far, Cunningham is the only one of this bunch whose winnings can be tallied comprehensively. We know about the Yacht, the Rolls, the Sea-Doo, the Glock, the second Sea-Doo; the tickets to see Jimmy Buffet, the tickets to see the Super Bowl, the “fully-automatic machine gun shooting session,” the vacation in Palm Springs, the vacation in Key Largo, the vacation in West Virginia, the vacation at the princely Prince hotel on the island of Hawaii; the corpoate jets and limos required to ferry his perosnage about the land; the fine wines that chuckled into his waiting glass; the steaks and lobsters and rare fishes that lined up to pass through his digestive tract; and the hired love of market-based women.

Friedman spends much of his book talking about how the world is flat, how Bangalore is the new Silicon Valley, and how India is now in perfect competition in America. Meanwhile, all my friends in Bangalore live with power that’s only on 70% of the time in an overdeveloped and thus desertified city (that formerly was known as a great beauty of the world) doing menial labor for major American companies. And yet Americans all think they’ve living the dream, because that’s what Airmiles Friedman told them.

While acknowledging there are unique problems with determining the reasonable needs of children of high-earning families, the court said trial judges should nevertheless avoid overindulgence [in granting child support requests] — citing the doctrine of In re Patterson, 920 P.2d 450 (Kan. App. 1996), that “no child, no matter how wealthy the parents, needs to be provided [with] more than three ponies.

It appears that the Governor [Sarah Palin] has filed an ethics complaint against herself. … This is very unusual because ethics complaints typically are filed against others,” wrote Tom Daniel, an Anchorage labor and employment lawyer hired by the board.