America, Good Works & Bad Taste: The What About Clients/Paris Head-Out-Of-Your-Ass-Now Challenge.
Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your […]
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Today’s Sensitive Hollywood Moment.
Or Overheard in Santa Monica. A true risk-taker college friend–no matter what they tell you 95% of Duke grads are not bust-out […]
In The Atlantic: Dumbing down education, killing college and scamming law students.
In case you hadn’t heard, on page 62 of the print edition of the September issue is “The Law-School Scam” by Paul […]
August, 22, 2014. Washington, DC People from all parts of the publishing industry, from industry professionals to award-winning authors, to aspiring authors, […]
“Dizzying” transformations: The Hill, H Street, Logan Circle, U Street…
Another DC revitalization. No hookers, though. Where do they go, anyway?
New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer kicks out the jams.
Last night at the Staples Center.
Joshua Pierce’s “The Snooze Button (And Other Stuff)”.
“This book is about stuff that annoys me, like waiting in lines, babies, boring sports, and job interviews. It’s also about awesome […]
Robin McLaurin Williams (1951-2014)
Rest in Peace, Sir Robin. Man-Child. Preacher. Madman. Rogue. You were truly touched by fire. See NBC coverage.
Three Yale law students in Slate: American sex offender laws are unfair, draconian and based on bad science.
In Slate today, the article “Sex Offender Laws Have Gone Too Far” argues that both state and federal sex offender registry laws […]
What I learned at work today.
If there is something about a strategy, a client demand, a candidate for employment, a new firm policy, a document-in-progress or draft […]
(And since Thursday is the new Friday.)
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” –Samuel Johnson
On the good foot.
An American story. While my fellow James Brown fan Holden Oliver (see post below) has not yet had the opportunity to see […]
Get on up, Campers.
“Early in the morning/Can’t get a ride….”
My Childhood: Bad.
I make a rich woman beg. I make a good woman steal. George Thorogood
Eat the Rich: Happy Birthday to Steven Joyce Dryden.
Two nights ago in DC’s Shaw district, an assorted bunch of us celebrated the birth (July 29), continued existence and never-ending achievements […]
A Question of Standing: Does the GOP House have any class? Does it have a good lawyer?
I used to like the GOP more. Whether or not I voted its way on a candidate or an issue, I liked […]
The Economist has had it with Putin; calls out France, Italy, Germany, US and UK.
The West as Appeasement Weenies? See Russia, MH17 and the West: A web of lies. Screaming excerpts: Since the murders of the […]
Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Best rock refrain ever.
Lord, take me downtown, I’m just lookin’ for some tush. –Gibbons, Beard & Hill
Georgetown’s Key Bridge Gems: PBC and WCC.
I’m in Washington, D.C. this week. I usually stay on the other side of the Potomac River in downtown Washington. But this […]
The Post Pub, 1422 L Street NW, Friday, 5:00 pm, July 25, 2014.
Most of this week, and early next, I’ll be in Washington, D.C. I should be finishing work early this Friday (the 25th). […]
The Economist: India steps up to its age-old public sanitation crisis.
Finally, it’s all about the toilets. And, more importantly, it’s even okay now to talk about it. See The Economist feature Sanitation […]
Happy 125th Birthday, Coca-Cola.
On this day in 1889, the Coca Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
In Vox Populi: New article on natural gas fracking.
We believe that the only way for society to change is for people’s voices to be heard. The subject of this dialogue […]