Promethean Anti-Slacker Blawg Review #124
Whoa. Blawg Review #124, the Labor Day Special, is up at George Lenard’s Employment Blawg. It’s really long and comprehensive, a super-human […]
British troops leave Basra, Iraq base
BASRA, Iraq (AP) – Iraqi soldiers hoisted the country’s flag over the Basra palace compound Monday after British troops withdrew from their […]
U.S. 2008 election line-up and result?
Our prediction, and without comment: it will be Clinton-Obama v. Giuliani-Romney, unless one of the four is discovered to have done something […]
Love’s Labours Lost: An American holiday tribute.
NOTE: We offer this special Labor Day item rather than a thoughtful post on work-life balance or a very short but comprehensive […]
London’s GeekLawyer these days
Velvet-voiced barrister GeekLawyer, sans Ruthie, does Podcast 12 and defames WAC?, sort of. Our main blogger, my boss, is an energetic and […]
Canada’s Slaw on a roll
No bad pun intended. But I noticed at my laptop from my perch here above Cannery Row and the stunning blue Monterey […]
Tony Snow to leave September 14
From Reuters.
Former Durham DA Mike Nifong back in court
See here, from The Chronicle, Duke’s daily newspaper. UPDATE 9/1/07: “Ex-Durham DA sentenced to one day in jail“
Two posts you should read today
How to define your niche, at Jim Hassett’s Legal Business Development. Hey Mister, Can you spare a Dime….Or a Client?, at Tom […]
Happy Birthday, Minor Wisdom.
Three years ago New Orleans-based Ray Ward, our favorite lawyer-as-human, Renaissance Man, and guardian of the King’s English, started his fine Minor […]
Ruthie’s Excellent U.S. Adventure
Ruthie of Ruthie’s Law, GeekLawyer’s former co-blogger, and allegedly both alluring and sexually acquistive, posts about it in part here. Her trip […]
“Wretched human, make that next martini bone dry…”
The Dogs of Score. AP reports that Helmsley leaves her dog $12 million in trust.
Up in Monterey
Alaska, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and San Diego (think of the latter as Cincy with decent weather, an ocean, much higher prices) within 10 […]
Humans to blame for hot summer?
That’s the word, at least for last summer, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. See […]
Leave Out the Parts that People Will Skip
Thanks to Pat Lamb for pointing out this post at BlogBloke.
“Name’s Larry–I work over near Union Station–just hate the echo in this one, don’t you?”
Sen. Craig breaks bad. Here from AP, and here from the Washington Post. And Roll Call, dang!
John Warner finally gets his mojo working.
He was elected to the Senate from Virginia as an “R” when I worked on Capitol Hill, just before I entered private […]
Update: Gonzales is out; Clement is acting AG
From MSNBC.com.
Blawg Review #123
Blawg Review #123 is up at Todd Smith’s Texas Appellate Law Blog.
Redux: GCs: Do you really need Big, Clumsy & Unresponsive in 50 cities worldwide?
If you are a hiring in-house counsel working for a great company doing business everywhere, is there any reason to keep engaging […]
“Farnsworth, Jesus has asked me to talk with you about your performance over the past few months…”
Yesterday we found these two articles at London-based The Economist: “Praying for Gain“, on the increasing use (often-outsourced) of corporate chaplains in […]
“Jesus asked me to talk with you about your work here lately…”
Secular WAC? is interested in most cultural trends, including the introduction of religious traditions to areas of American life where we weren’t […]
1 year ago at WAC?: “Will President Bush ever get around to blogging?”
From 8/24/06: “To return to Newsweek‘s report of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s new blog, there’s more ink about “his excellency’s” daily online journal […]
U.S. national anthem when WAC? was in school.
It reigned between 1971 and 1978, I think, but those years are hazy. It’s a lot easier to sing than the one […]
Fed up with civil perjury?
Brothers and sisters, I wanna see a sea of hands out there… I want everybody to kick up some noise, I wanna […]
Kevin O’Keefe on Wikis and Blogs
Thanks to Bill Gratsch for pointing out Kevin O’Keefe’s PowerPoint re: wikis, blogs and discussion forums from the International Legal Technology Association […]
Blawg Review #122 – The Blawg Review Syllabus
See this week’s edition of Blawg Review at David Gulbransen’s Preaching to the Perverted.
That Lawyer Dude’s Week.
See That Lawyer Dude‘s (American Anthony Colleluori) post yesterday “Week in Review“. TLD is consistently thoughtful, interesting and fun to read. Anthony’s […]
The Economist: Perth and Cleveland trump Paris and New York in global livability.
“Cities are durable. Most last longer than the countries that surround them, or indeed any other human institutions. But some thrive, whereas […]
All eyes on Countrywide Financial
(NYSE: CFC) Here, from the International Herald Tribune.