Good v. Bad Choices: Do most people make any choices at all?
Don’t mean to go all Sartre on you guys but I’m always amused at the concept of “making bad choices” in life. […]
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HRC 1, DJT 0
Credit where it’s due re: last night’s historic first 2016 POTUS debate in New York City. The evening belonged to HRC. She […]
Duke upsets Notre Dame, 38-35. In South Bend.
Amazing Saturday college football news. And in South Bend. Whoa. When I was a Duke student, few ever attended football games. Soccer […]
15 years ago, on the day of new definitions, what did you think about most?
Photograph by Thomas E. Franklin.
REDUX: Performance Reviews Based On Client Service Criteria?
And why not? At least once a year each employee at our firm is evaluated in a process in which written evaluations […]
Timothy Trainer’s War on Fake Stuff
D.C.-based Timothy Trainer is one a handful of intellectual property lawyers globally who can put international IP rights enforcement in plain but […]
Partner Emeritus at ATLS: The Banning of Steven Dean.
Partner Emeritus, the much-beloved Dean Swift of Above The Law Surrogate (ATLS), reports on strange and depraved behavior–even by American lawyer standards–at […]
The Epoch Times: Global Populism.
This is interesting. As I’ve worried, and as you might have expected, America does not own the New Populism. The entire developed, […]
The Proper Ordering of Lunch.
Sorry but we love this clip. WAC/P is all about work–but we prize deportment and manners, too. So write us a thank […]
Best of ATL Surrogate’s Partner Emeritus: PE Does ‘Nam.
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
Desperately Seeking: Who is the Blonde Woman who first appears at 2:30 in the clip?
Guess I’m hooked. Who is she? She would have been born around 1956 at latest, I think.
Congratulations Chicago’s Hillary Rodham, Wellesley ’69
Nicely done. Even though you’ve been in the national spotlight since age 21, you are thank God no natural pol. That’s why […]
Don’t get hysterical about POTUS elections: November 2016 will be our 58th time.
ATTENTION Family, Friends, Clients, Coworkers, Fellow Duke Alums, Ex-Girlfriends, Squash Partners: 1. Every 4 years for the last 227 years, America’s gone […]
The Last Boomer: “It was the rock ‘n’ roll, mate”.
I see them in the streets I see them in the field I hear them shouting under my feet And I know […]
What Matters.
#allcatslivesmatter #alldogslivesmatter To be completely honest, I am not sure about anyone else.
Washington Examiner on Energy & Environment.
Writer John Siciliano at right-leaning but non-hysterical and quite talented Washington Examiner does fine work on energy and environment law and policy, […]
Peirce Mill: Since 1829 in Rock Creek Park.
Above: Peirce Mill in 1918, already nearly a century old, located at the key Washington, D.C. crossroads of Tilden Street and Beach […]
July 5, 2016. Just as Bad: Eric Clapton weighs in on Tuesdays.
Tuesday’s just as bad. “Sundays I go to church. I get down on my knees. I begin to pray. And this is […]
Modern Men: Indoor Neutered Cats.
I see it on the streets, in stores, at sporting events, in airports and in both cities and town. The female demand […]
Free State of Jones
I saw “Free State of Jones” last night. First-rate if not perfect movie. History as it was and is. No demons. No […]
Dude, where’s my ABA?
From a comment I made on line yesterday but I thought important enough to put here. Both the American Bar Association and […]
Brexit!
Old Blighty voted yesterday to leave the EU. About 52 to 48% spread with 72% of population voting. Scotland and London voted […]
Before The Great Neutering: Free Speech Word of the Week is “Stewardess” or “Stew”
Before the Great Neutering, flight attendants were women known as “stewardesses” or “stews”. Generally they were young, energetic, attractive and in good […]
Anyone want to share a foxhole with Speaker Ryan?
Anyone want to share a foxhole with Speaker Ryan? I just read that Paul Ryan will not raise money for Donald Trump. […]
Quit Apologizing, Don Trump. Right Now? Profiling is Very OK.
My Facebook post morning accompanying the “breaking” Washington Examiner piece Trump:’I hate the concept of profiling,’ but we ‘have to do it’. […]
Donald J. Trump: (a) His good points. (b) His bad points. (c) Some other stuff.
My post will be Friday or Saturday. Donald Trump uncartooned. We all need to take a deep breath and think/talk about this […]
On Bullying.
“‘Bullying’ is natural. Real human beings have Bullying in them. Worry about Bullying only if you don’t.” – Holden Oliver, Kitzbuhel, Winter […]