ergo

No one knew what was going on inside Bear Stearns or Merrill Lynch or Citigroup, but these places had always been the smart money, ergo their bets must be the smart bets.

The state claimed in response that it is regulating business conduct, not speech—ergo, the First Amendment doesn’t apply.

She is a character in a workplace comedy and ergo utterly resigned to the job being hell.

Let’s give the last word, plus one of mine, to the famous phrase of French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes: “Cogito ergo sum ridens” — “I think, therefore I am laughing.”

This has been a quality year — ergo, the following list, presented in random order, shoehorns 18 series into 10 more or less themed slots.