Patrick Lamb: Sane writing serves clients.
Here’s another good piece on writing for lawyers. Visit our friend Chicago trial lawyer Patrick Lamb at his enduring and pioneering In […]
Angry Writing.
“Being right”, a writer-lawyer here said years ago, is “very expensive”. John Day at Day on Torts picked up on this gem […]
Muse
Dina Vierny (1919-2009) was Aristide Maillol‘s model and real life muse. She died January 20, 2009.
Got Fear?
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. —Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Vigorous, and first rate: Charon QC.
The effects of a vigorous genius working upon large materials. –Samuel Johnson, on Dryden’s life’s work The above quote, in Charon QC‘s […]
Sarah Kate Silverman doesn’t like PC, either.
Sarah Silverman is saucy and attractive, too. If you don’t think that’s very important, you’re wrong–but you can write us an angry […]
Greenfield: When is anonymity “all talk, no responsibility”?
“Okay, kids, get your learn on. Today we will learn about the right of all Americans to throw stones at your house […]
Dude, where’s my MLK Day?
UPI reports that, in Cincinnati today, “Construction work faces MLK Day protests“. It’s nice to see that Americans everywhere remember and honor […]
Hassan: You can’t teach attitude.
Sorry–but I’m no Stephen Covey. Most employees cannot be “saved”. Burning inside 99.5% of all employees worldwide is an overwhelming ambition to […]
Writing Well: The Editor
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. —Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement […]
More on law schools providing value some day and hopefully before we all die.
Or, “You Got Anyone On That Campus Who Can Chew Gum, Cite-Check, And Look You In The Eye At The Same Time?”. […]
Hey we got some stats for you right here.
You ready? Allegedly the video below was shown at a recent board meeting of a large, well-known and, in our view, highly […]
More Plural Life
Whether you’re a Baptist, Neo-Platonist, property law professor, or average philanderer struggling to get by, forget about HBO’s “Big Love” and learn […]
“France as a model?”
As an economy? No, not yet. But we’d love it here at WAC? if the French would get back to work. Sixty-five […]
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The Plural Life.
I don’t think we’re in Indianapolis any more. Here’s something you don’t see much. And it combines a serious purpose with a […]
Our New Male Writers: Not much to talk about in the locker room?
(BBC Television) “Justin, honey, your editor at Knopf called. He wants you to read more Henry Miller. Roth, Mailer, Bukowski, and Cleland, […]
Scotland’s Hogmanay 2009-2010: Staggeringly Cold.
Wear the rabbit fur-lined Somerled helmet Aunt Mordag gave you last year at the Burning of the Clavie. Whether you’re a Druid […]
Scotland’s Hogmanay: Staggeringly Cold.
Wear that rabbit fur-lined Somerled helmet Aunt Mordag gave you last year at the Burning of the Clavie. However you go–Druid priest, […]
The Economist: Working U.S. Women Officially Rule.
Robert Palmer once sang, persuasively and with brio, that “the women are smarter”. We’d add braver, and more motivated. It’s bracing to […]
Charon QC’s Christmas Art
CQC aims to add paintings through New Year’s Eve. We don’t understand the Art or the Context, but it did put us […]
Real Heros: John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin, author, historian and civil rights figure, died this past year at the age of 94. Franklin wrote From Slavery […]
Ile St Louis fruit stand, December 17, 2009 (R.Nahem)
Chantilly
At Richard Nahem’s I Prefer Paris, see “Meredith Mullins: Chantilly Night“. Photo: Meredith Mullins
Merry Clayton To All.
“Burns like a red coal carpet/Mad bull lost its way.”
Real Heros: The Chicago Craig’s List Lawyer-Employer Guy
We are not worthy. Above is Chicago. Below is an actual ad we received last week from our friend Scott Greenfield, an […]
The Economist: 2009 not so bad?
The Great Recession never arrived, says last week’s The Economist. But there’s a catch. See “The Great Stabilisation“. Excerpts: Today’s stability, however […]
Fruit stand on Ile St Louis (R.Nahem) Hotel de Ville (R.Nahem) Ile St Louis storefronts (R.Nahem)