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Rutherford Lawson is the pen name of an ordinary New Englander transplanted from the suburbs of New York City (Long Island, to be specific). After receiving his bachelors degree from Harvard University, he jumped into the loving paternal arms of a huge corporation where he was nurtured for 24 years and then kicked from the nest to fend for himself. With more time on his hands to inflict his running social commentary upon his wife, he decided to author the blog you now behold and give his wife’s ears a rest. (Well not really. He usually discusses his blog entries with his wife before writing them.)
You will also see here a few contributions from Ecclesiastes (aka The Rigorist), the yin to Rutherford’s yang. A self described middle aged Southern conservative, he is unafraid to make waves in politically correct waters.
The Rutherford Lawson Blog has been quoted in several political blogs and was recently referenced in The Daily Voice.
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Stodgely | November 6, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hi, Rutherford
Ecclesiastes (aka The Rigorist) might be interested to know that rigorist.com is for sale at sedo.com
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Rutherford | November 6, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Stodgely,
Since I’m in favor of free enterprise, I approved your advertisement here. Can’t speak for the Rigorist as to whether he’ll follow up or not.
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cutelilgaara | November 19, 2008 at 2:07 am
I really enjoy reading your blog, and I honestly have nothing against you. It’s just every time I click a link on the side of my blog, it gets crossed out because I’ve visited the site.
Cheers,
Cutelilgaara
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Rutherford | November 21, 2008 at 12:06 am
LOL … thanks CuteLG for getting back to me. To explain to my readers, my blog appears on CuteLG’s blogroll with a line through it (a
strikethrough) so I wrote her wondering whether I should infer some negative editorial message from that. Alas, I was just being paranoid!5.
Timotheus | January 13, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Rut,
You support gay marriage and obviously are in love with Obama. Go for it.
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Rutherford | January 13, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Timotheus, thanks for the advice but there are a host of reasons this wouldn’t work:
1. I’m not gay.
2. I’m married.
3. Obama’s not gay (“as far as I know” (to quote Hillary Clinton))
4. Obama is married.
Still I probably wouldn’t mind at all if Obama were my BFF.
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Timotheus | January 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Rut,
A BFF is a good start, but you are both about “change”…give it some reconsideration.
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dead rabbit 2.0 | April 7, 2009 at 10:59 am
June 11 marks the return of the old Rabbit. Rabbit 2.0 is asking Rutherford to allow the Rabbit to return to his rugged, blue collar image that gives Rabbit’s otherwise bland commentary more gusto on that day.
I think that last sentence was actually in the 4th person, if such a thing is possible.
For three months, Rabbit will go back to his world of roofing. By July, Rabbit always hates it. But, in Spring, Rabbit can’t wait to go to a job where the f word is used to simply describe what your going to have for lunch.
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Rutherford | April 7, 2009 at 4:27 pm
LOL Rabbit your time line confuses the heck out of me!
On June 11 (approximately 2 months from now) you want to return to the old Rabbit, the blue collar roofer with the F word vocab.
BUT by that time, you actually will have almost finished your Spring roofing ritual which would imply that you actually wish to return to your Rabbit persona UNTIL June 11, not on June 11.
Help me. You’ve totally confounded me.
P.S. Regarding the F word to describe one’s lunch, if you want to see a master of the F word, watch any good Richard Pryor concert movie. The man uses MF to mean at least a dozen different things, and more amazingly, you can tell contextually exactly what he means each time!
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dead rabbit 2.0 | April 7, 2009 at 11:32 pm
summer vacation starts jun11. that’s when i go back to the roof for 3 months.
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Anthony Le Cazals | July 9, 2009 at 1:04 pm
hello and thank you
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Rutherford | July 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Anthony,
Hello and you’re welcome.