Natural Resources: Will Oklahoma Sell Water to Save Water?
Drinking and Wastewater Systems. We ran across this piece in Environmental Protection magazine entitled ____. As worn-out water-related infrastructure in many states–from […]
“It’s over, Muffy. Back to Suffolk. I’ll mix the martinis. You pack the good swizzle sticks.”
Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You old white people. It is […]
Law’s No Longer Local, Lester: Try a Tennessee Trial Lawyer.
What does it take be a great trial lawyer, anyway? Nashville’s John Day may have the answer. No surprise to us that […]
Beats Adderall & Anger Hands-Down, Jack. Need Focus?
Also helps to be smart, patrician, well-educated, well-traveled, handsome, driven, resilient, optimistic, athletic, happy, way fun, charismatic, clean, sober, hopeful and hopelessly […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment: Be There 24/7–or Give Walmart a Shot.
Lord Chief Justice Sir John (“Pompous”) Popham, circa 1603 Lawyers aren’t special. We’re in a service business. We are not royalty. Get […]
Hot Legs, Too: The Best Damn Customer Service Blogs & Websites.
Quality Content. Class. “Legs”. Solid relationships with customers, clients and buyers are every business’s real assets. Great customers are always up for […]
Drinking in Marrakech: It Could Make a Blind Man See.
Photos below are by Maryam. You can and should visit her at My Marrakesh. See The Djellabar Bar: Or a Tale of […]
Stop talking & writing like a lawyer. It’s Pompous & Prissy. Use “people” words instead.
Let’s get over ourselves, okay? Doesn’t changing legal writing to just clear and simple writing come down to leadership? Setting a better […]
Here’s to you, Self-Esteem Movement: Please stay in your coffin.
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody. –Sir W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911). Dramatist, Librettist, Illustrator.
I’ve wondered, too: “Why can’t flood water get hauled to drought-stricken land?”
Water Transfer Technology, anyone? Clean Streams, anyone? For a year I wrote a bi-monthly column on federal and state clean water issues […]
The Economist on Samsung: “Asia’s new model company”.
A new GE or P&G? Maybe so. But we must add a dash of serious if wonderful in-your-face quirk. See “Samsung and […]
Breaking: Massachusetts bans naming any more male infants “Justin”, “Joshua”, “Jeremy” or “Brandon”.
Governor: “No more poof names.” Law goes into effect January 1, 2012. California and New York may follow.
A Kashmir Hill gem in Forbes: “Hello, Stranger”.
The Blowback of our new Face Culture? A gem we missed at first. Kashmir Hill writes full-time about privacy issues and the […]
Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
Wangari Muta Maathai was a Kenyan environmentalist and political activist educated in the United States and Kenya. In the 1970s, she founded […]
The Economist: “The Palestinians deserve a state–just as the Israelis do.”
See in Saturday’s The Economist “Yes to Palestinian Statehood“. It begins: The Palestinians are edging closer to getting a recognised state, at […]
Reason To Live.
Go over there, turn on the light. Hey, all the lights. Come over here, stand on that chair. Yeah, that’s right.
Heaven.
Cream: Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton.
Summer Fun: American Family Vacation Moment.
Play loud, Weenies: You remember the Griswolds, Clark and Ellen, don’t you?
The Economist: Anti-Israeli Sentiment Surges in Egypt.
See The Economist‘s piece Saturday on Egypt and Israel, “Feeling the Heat of Isolation“. Excerpts: Israel has diplomatic relations with only three […]
The Economist: Anti-Israeli Sentiment Surges in Egypt.
See The Economist‘s piece yesterday on Egypt and Israel, “Feeling the Heat of Isolation“. Excerpts: Israel has diplomatic relations with only three […]
Where Do You Practice Law? In ClientTown? Or LawyerTown?
“The Lawyers”, circa 1855, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) Are the three gentlemen in Daumier’s famous sketch “client-centric” or merely “lawyer-oriented”? We will never […]
Marrakesh in Egypt: Did You Ever Love a Gifted Woman?
He told me that the secret to marrying a successful woman was to realize that you had married not just the woman […]
Well, here’s our 9-11 Ten Years After Post: American Life, Fear and Squeak-Squeak.
Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and […]
Man, Reach and Wonder. “…him we can save.”
Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen. –Goethe Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than Man. –Sophocles in […]
Writing Well: The Editors.
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. —Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement […]