Detroit’s MC5: Pluperfect Rock Warriors.
(Warning: Skip 52-second “Gail Intro” on Ramblin’ Rose unless you have near-perfect mental health.)
Living in America: On the Good Foot.
James Brown, Godfather of Soul, was the hardest-working poor kid ever.
1922: James Joyce gets crazy with Hemingway.
Joyce said to me he was afraid his writing was too suburban and that maybe he should get around a bit and […]
Got New Associates?
See “What are you thinking?” Also entitled: “If a neuron fires in a brilliant young lawyer’s head, and no one hears it […]
Speaking of Jim McElhaney: Cross-Examination.
See his classic ABA Journal article “It’s All About You“. Learn more about something hard. Excerpt: Stop trying to talk like lawyers. […]
You work like Pete Townshend plays? Well, do you?
Got Fire? “I want it. I want it. I want it. I want it.”
Heroes: E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and Core Knowledge Foundation.
Eric Hirsch founded the Charlottesville-based Core Knowledge Foundation in 1986.
Inspiration: You have to go after it with a club.
She’s got wonderful eyes. And a whiskey mouth.
Best Books on Lawyering: Mark Herrmann’s “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law”.
When you finally do take a deposition, I want you to remember two things… –Mark Herrmann, page 59, Chapter 6: “Seven Hours […]
Heroes: Daniel O’Connell
Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, […]
The Other Deficit: Credibility of American domestic policy abroad.
America should calm down and examine its own gun-control policy. –One Chinese commentator yesterday This morning, Evan Osnos, a staff writer for […]
Does the travel industry miss the whole point of London?
Should London be redesigned and redeveloped to look like one of those cute, sterile and bouncy customer-friendly shopping centers in the American […]
We still miss you, Rozann Stayden.
My long-time friend Rozann Stayden from both Cincinnati and DC days died on February 24 last year. It’s taken some time to […]
Rozann Stayden.
My friend Rozann Stayden died on February 24 this year. We met in Cincinnati as students in 1977 and, a few years […]
My friend Rozann Stayden from both Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. died on February 24 this year.
This Mexico Business: Gringo Madness Interrupted. But throw in Hope, too.
Even more than old enduring good ideas, and new compelling good ones, I remain in love with human beings at their best. […]
By Cross-Culture’s R.D. Lewis: “When Teams Collide”.
By Richard D. Lewis, Nicholas Brealey International (2012)
The Economist’s Daily Chart: Terrorist Attacks–The Last Ten Years of “Fear and Loathing”.
While most of us are aware that terrorist attacks over the last 10 years have been concentrated in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, […]
Don’t miss GWENorg’s powerful, uplifting video about child sexual abuse starring ABC’s Chelsea Tavares.
Los Angeles-based Global Women’s Empowerment Network (GWEN or GWENorg at http://www.GWENNetwork.org) has produced this public service announcement based on a poem of […]
The Economist (and Bill Clinton?) on shareholder value: “Mend it; don’t end it.”
See in The Economist by Schumpeter Taking the Long View on the “cult” of shareholder value. Scrap it for its follies and […]
Charlie Rose interview with Jeff Bezos: Brick-and-mortar stores for Amazon?
Answer: Maybe. Maybe not. But listen to Jeff Bezos’s reasons for opening up a chain of physical book stores–or not opening them […]
Argentina v. Argentina’s bondholders: Will SCOTUS step in on debt restructuring?
See at Reuters this morning “Argentina Playing Last Cards in Court Battle with Bondholders“. We have two additional questions: Is the resources-rich, […]
Evan Schaeffer’s “How to Feed a Lawyer”: The Perfect Gift for Lawyers, Clients and Actual Humans.
Trial lawyer, writer and Blawg Father Evan Schaeffer has a few secrets for us. Do buy and begin to read–as I am […]
In Sweden, Customers Now Drive Selling with Extreme Cat-Diving Ad Campaigns.
It could happen–and it did. See Sarah Etter’s piece in Monetate.