Master Coach. North Star. Exalted Teacher. Consigliere.: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Yes, “read the rule…” The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are remarkable and, well, amazing. They vibrate, hum and glow with the […]
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Folkways of The Slackoisie
Admitting Mistakes at Work in 2019 Boomers: “No errors occurred.” GenX: “It is what it is, Man. Shit happens.” Millennials: “It’s Brittany’s […]
36 years. Period. Full stop.
Today July 12 is the 36th anniversary of my drink. It was at Kelly’s Irish Times on F Street. Thank you Penny […]
Statesboro Blues: “Daddy died and left me wild…”.
Mother died and left me reckless, Daddy died and left me wild. No, I’m not good lookin’, I’m some sweet woman’s angel […]
July 3, 1913
Survivors of Pickett’s Charge walk the field their comrades fell upon. Gettysburg 50th anniversary, July 3, 1913.
House Committee on J6: Shame on you folks.
The House select committee on J6 has outdone Tailgunner Joe McCarthy at his worst. Some media thinks it’s not a shameful circus […]
Thanks you 2.
Happy 72nd, you two kids. You were both broke, average students, and willing. Thank you for the constant caring, the time, putting […]
Democracy doesn’t mean cretins, lowlifes, and straight-up human turds are equal to you.
“Democracy” HAS been tortured into “everyone is inherently equal”””and nothing could be further from the truth. We are only equal before the […]
Now? Let’s get England back. England once had free speech.
Let’s get England back. I miss England. England was cool. England once had free expression.
The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Lawyers
1. Be risk-averse at all times. Clients have come to expect this from their lawyers. It’s tradition. Honor it. 2. Tell the […]
Editing
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” “• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), […]
Hull’s Lore, Law and Mystery of Handwritten Thank You Notes.
Break the rules at your peril. People will say mean things about your dog, your wife, your girlfriend, or all three. In […]
Gene Dwyer’s New Orleans Muse: “She Walks On Gilded Splinters”
New Orleans-based writer, lawyer and Renaissance man Gene Dwyer is a gifted storyteller. Get and ready his novel about Marie Laveau. “˜Til […]
Scottish: Glasgow-born Angus Young is Bobby Burns on Crack.
Angus McKinnon Young (1955- ) Robert Burns, Bard of Ayrshire (1759-1796)
Sterling Hayden: Our Greatest Lover of Being Alive.
Although actor Sterling Hayden (1916-1986) was not in love with Hollywood or acting, he was a highly regarded actor who was cast […]
Mircea Eliade’s “Shamanism”: A classic in the history of religions.
Or you may view it as a classic of anthropology. Whatever you call it, it is serious scholarship and in a class […]
Anthony Burgess, Polymath: Clockwork Orange, novella or Kubrick movie, is besides the point.
Anthony Burgess’s frightening 1962 dystopian novel Clockwork Orange and satire is not my favorite book. Its spectacular 1971 adaptation to Hollywood blockbuster, […]
May 17, 1928
“There’s not a man in a carload of you.” – John Daniel Hull III (May 17, 1928 – December 12, 2012) Happy […]
Jack London: On Real Life
“ªYou can’t wait for Inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. “ª”” Jack London (1876-1916)”¬ London in 1905″¬
Robert Frost’s Work-Life Pulitzer
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost (1874-1963) spent […]
Partner Emeritus on Half-Windsor Knots, Bow Ties, Real Men, Everything.
Last week, in the comments of an article at Above the Law by Shannon Achimalbe entitled Guess Who Else is Reading Your […]
Wilder
“If you are going to tell the truth be funny or they will kill you.” “” Billy Wilder, American Filmmaker (1906-2002)
Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Van Morrison.
All the girls walk by dressed up for each other. And the boys do the boogie-woogie in the corner of the street.
The Germans
The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]
