Irish Times: 50 Things Ireland Needs in 2016.
This appeared in Saturday’s The Irish Times by Ireland historian and author Diarmaid Ferriter: “50 things we need in Ireland in 2016“. […]
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Heroes: James M. Edwards.
Below: WWII picture of Jim Edwards (left), one of my Dad John Hull’s best and oldest friends–and a hero of mine from […]
This Dude’s Funny: “The Snooze Button”, by Joshua Pierce.
Says author, comic, scholar, linguist, cyclist, philosopher and DC-based polymath Joshua Pierce: “This book is about stuff that annoys me, like waiting […]
San Bernardino: Any more fun new Ozzie and Harriet couples we can welcome to the ‘hood?
Los Angeles Times about 3:00 PM Eastern: San Bernardino shooters had been radicalized ‘for some time,’ went to shooting ranges before attack. […]
Don’t stroke out but do read the fine Vox piece on why plenty of sane people support Donald Trump.
See yesterday’s article at Vox by David Roberts, The real reason the media is rising up against Donald Trump. Especially second half […]
Like American lawyers, have American physicians become a gene pool-diluted joke and disappointment?
Have American physicians become a huge disappointment? Not unlike lawyers, MDs (1) are often important in the overall scheme of things but […]
Not unlike American lawyers, have U.S. physicians become a profound embarrassment and disappointment?
Have American physicians become a gene pool-diluted embarrassment and disappointment? Not unlike lawyers, medical doctors (MDs) are (1) very important–and probably more […]
Aka Dr. Ruth: Karola Ruth Siegel is a major piece of work.
There is no one on earth quite like my friend Dr. Ruth. Holocaust survivor, soldier, sniper, grandmother, sex therapist, the subject of […]
American Pantheon: Anatasia Lin
Chinese-Canadian Anatasia Lin, 25, actress, model, Miss World Canada 2015 and China human rights advocate who testified before U.S. Congress in July […]
Princeton, don’t go there. WTF.
Thomas. Woodrow. Wilson (1856-1924)? Polymath, academic, progressive and internationalist? See, e.g., at NBC News Princeton University Agrees to Weigh Erasing Woodrow Wilson’s […]
Joint Economic Committee Hearing on Millennials in America
On November 18, I was over in the Dirksen HOB and decided to catch the first hour of the U.S. Congress Joint […]
Just because.
“Now let that guitar part in.” NOTE: Something is seriously wrong with at least 2 of the dancers.
Examiner: U.S. House members huddle on their Obama ISIS-Syria problem.
In this morning’s edition of the Washington Examiner, one of the few sane and evenhanded American conservative publications out there, reporter Charles […]
Beirut and Paris: 2 questions for Americans.
Okay, really 4 questions. I’m curious: 1. Have last week’s attacks in Beirut and central Paris changed or bolstered your views in […]
On all Humanity: Pluralist Paris, November 13, 2015.
Our best thoughts tonight with all those who live/work/play in Planet Earth’s hands-down best city. One hundred and forty nine dead when […]
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (1918-2015)
Helmut Schmidt, German father figure and Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982, died on November 10. He was 96. Schmidt […]
November 1993
The Internet now even reaches back and records things like “no comment” I dutifully said to Los Angeles Times reporters 22 years […]
395 years
On November 9, 1620, 102 mainly English puritans first caught sight of the shoreline of what is now Cape Cod, Massachusetts, eventually […]
GOP/Dem nightmare as SNL humanizes Donald Trump and Dr. Carson unmasked as ditzed-out old lying turd.
The 2016 presidential election game has changed. Trump might win this thing. With an assist from Larry David mockingly calling Trump a […]
Charon QC: Cricket and the Law.
See yesterday’s Charon QC post Cricket and the Law, featuring Miller v. Jackson, a famous Court of Appeal of England and Wales […]
But aren’t there ways we can get GenYs to quit even quicker?
See this thoughtful and valiant piece by Olivia Barrow, a reporter for the Milwaukee Business Journal, on “How to keep millennials around […]
This is what lawyers are good for.
In the movies, at long last, there’s a portrait of a lawyer I would claim as one of my own: James B. […]
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. October 2015.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, October 2015. “Takes dynamite to get me up. Too much of everything is just enough.” Thank you Dana, […]
At Double Bridge Publishing: Dennis Maley’s “A Long Road Home”
Author, novelist and pol Ben Disraeli would have liked a new D.C.-based publisher that even the surliest and most difficult writers have […]
Building a better associate lawyer from cultural archtypes: Who/what are a few of yours?
The wrong humans have been entering law school for some time now, from the oldest Baby Boomers to the youngest of Gen-Ys. […]
Despite Shell’s Alaska decision, global oil is poised to drill in American Arctic.
Which in the scheme of things is productive, but not without its special uncertainties, expense and a super-short drilling season. As more […]
In Miami New Times: John Pate’s Venezuela.
See feature in the Miami New Times this week on the killing of expat American lawyer John Pate two months ago in […]
Presentism, Evil Depraved Christopher Columbus and Real Life.
Presentism should be self-explanatory. Think of it as the tunnel vision you get using a stuck or broken kaleidoscope. A broken kaleidoscope […]
Heroes: ARH
My Mom, 87, just told me on her cell phone that she’s driving over to her 10:00 AM workout class and will […]