Germany’s Alien, UFO and Daily Strangeness Problem.
And you thought it was just that they’ve had all these American soldiers around all the time for the last 64 years […]
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Dang, 250 leads.
See Scott “Bob Redford” Greenfield’s “My 250th Call Through Avvo!” at his Simple Justice. Nothing much gets by Scott, and we’ve learned […]
“What About Paris?” We begin early this week.
Via Holden Oliver, the aging law student who thinks all music stopped in 1977, we begin our weekend alter ego What About […]
Get out of your cars and dance.
Women in satin shoes. Men in Zegna suits. What else is there? Historical note: This Jagger-Richards song was U.S. national anthem briefly–for […]
WAC? Study: Physicians are now even more disliked than Lawyers.
The Upside: American MDs do make lawyers look good. But let’s start making doctors work for us. (Art: R. Steadman) In college, […]
Tom Daschle goes paws up.
Obama’s well-liked HHS nominee withdraws re: $146,000 in back taxes. See yesterday’s Washington Post.
February’s Carnival of Trust
We know–it sounds like you died and went to Hallmark. But the Carnival of Trust is excellent, conceived and guided by revered […]
Like him or not, Bill Clinton is a U.S. asset.
Even our controlled Commander-in-Chief gets excited, starstruck and a little weird around WJC. What’s the deal with his wrist? We vote “R”, […]
Keep your Beginner’s Mind.
naughty child”“ instead of his chores a snow Buddha “Gimme that moon!” cries the crying child –by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David […]
Brit King of Media interviews California ADR Vixen.
Howard, Oprah and now Charon QC. Mayfair’s playful pundit. London’s Charlie Rose. Albion’s first Rioja Ranger. Charon (pronounced “Karen”) just aired podcast […]
Baby, We Were Born To Eat.
Super Bowl Halftime: Can we have the Kinks, Sting, Bono or B.B. King next year? Despite the hopelessness and self-pity in much […]
Root for the Steelers: It’s good for business.
Politics, Business and Sports Desk. Here in Palo Alto we are watching this game carefully. See The Motley Fool. First, a Pittsburgh […]
The Real Paris
Lots of large international cities have mimes, street people and street theater. But if you live for a long while in DC […]
Staffs that work.
See at Lawyers USA the article “Are You Overlooking Your Best Marketing Tool?” by lawyer-editor Sylvia Hsieh. It’s about making your employees […]
The Midwest: Toughen up, bundle up, tap your brakes.
Is that Exit 44A, or a new footpath to Springfield? You live too long in Southern California, you get too soft; too […]
Nino Does Duke.
But can he do that reverse pretzel thing? Alumni and students alike speak of “The Duke Experience” in reverent and hushed tones. […]
Amazon: In the Zone.
And how nice for you. Americans do “small” pretty well; we’ve raised it to an art form in some circles and regions. […]
Hesse’s main point.
Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead… Hermann Hesse, […]
Jim Hassett on alternative fees–Part 4.
Now we know it really won’t go away. At his Legal Business Development, Jim Hassett just published Part 4 of his series […]
Bolivia: The new deal or a race war?
Here’s one we missed in The Economist earlier this week: “A Question of Rights“. Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, is an Amerindian and […]
So, tell me again, what do we do now?
Service Firms, and The Way-Down Global Economy. Some advice, with great related links, from people who think about this stuff all the […]
The Economy: Mr. Obama goes to Capitol Hill.
In The Hill, see “Praise for Obama, Not Votes“. In the Senate, the new president was peppered with questions about the proposal […]
The subject that won’t die: alternative fees.
And you can’t ignore it. Thought leaders like Ron Baker, Pat Lamb, Tom Kane and now law firm leaders won’t let the […]
John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009)
That something-is-missing in the suburbs was one of his great themes, and no one did that better. Although I liked his Bech […]
Energy and the Environment: ‘Real science’ in DC?
“Obama needs to pass in 2009 the mother of all energy bills.” In the yours-in-the-struggle but generally excellent Salon, see “Real Science […]
China Business: What about Dan Harris?
At Dan’s China Law Blog, see “Is Your China Business Recession Resistant? What Is?” Excerpt: My firm has seen increased business of […]
On being a Belfast Protestant Barrister with a lust for spirits.
On Being a Chinese Engineer Guy. On Being a Woman Photographer from Morocco. On Being Ernie from Glen Burnie. And on being […]
Amsterdam has a bit of everything.
Art, religious art, not-religious art, the Anne Frank House (moving, authentic and not to be missed), religion, not-religion, sex for pay, sex […]
