“Make Mine Colonial.”
Make yours Colonial Predator Coffee. Stock up before the weekend begins. “All the Oppression. Twice the Caffeine.”
Sandburg on Legal Midwest
“The Lawyers Know Too Much” Carl Sandburg, 1922 The lawyers, Bob, know too much.They are chums of the books of the old […]
Sainte Genevieve
“I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come.” ~ Sainte Genevieve (422-512) Lifelong miracle worker, consecrated virgin, and Gallic […]
J. Dan Hull, Jr.
John Daniel Hull, II, 1900 – 1987. My grandfather. I spent his last 10 or so Thanksgivings with him in Missouri with […]
New Mind
“Without invention nothing is well spaced, unless the mind change, unless the stars are new measured, according to their relative positions, the […]
The World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if eternally annoying 12 Rules will get you there, […]
Sparta: Money, Guns and Mothers
“War is the last of all things to go according to schedule.”— Thucydides (460 BC – 395 BC) in The History of […]
O Rare Partner Emeritus
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
1971
On June 4, 1971, 55 years ago, on a fine Friday evening on our football field on Drake Road, near the 3 […]
Memorial Day
Memorial Day need not be maudlin but is always about our deepest respect, appreciation, admiration and longing. You can drink Miller Lite, […]
Duke Chanticleer 1975: Gonzoid Specimen No. 1.
People don’t want to accept that about themselves, that they’re part of the general rot, and they react to that angrily, which […]
Wild Men 2026 Rankings
The Rankings 1 through 100 as this blog sees them as of April 1. Living or (mainly) dead since the beginning of […]
REDUX: The Shakespeare Edition. Blawg Review #318: Fully-Engaged, Participatory, Risk-Taking, Pro-Immersion, Get-Off-Your-Knees, Change-the-World Will Shakespeare-Hunter Thompson Edition.
HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more […]
Wild Bill
This is the Oklahoma Veterans Home, in Ardmore, OK, circa 1910. My great-great grandfather, William Beard Hull (1837–1929), died in this building […]
The 7 Habits of Highly Clueless Corporate Lawyers.
Lawyers who won’t take a stand is a time-honored tradition. Ernie from Glen Burnie, a lawyer and a life-long friend of mine, […]
Lawyering Done Right: A Backstage Pass to the World.
The Strip, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. As the fictional movie character John Milton said, law done right is a “backstage pass to […]
St. Genevieve saves us all.
“I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come.” Sainte Genevieve (422-512) saved Parisians from the Huns, the legend goes, […]
Dan Hull’s Rum Diary: Growing up Hunter Thompson.
Kurtz. He got off the boat. He split from the whole goddamn program. –Captain Willard, Apocalypse Now (1979) Thompson had a way […]
The World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if eternally […]
107 Things Slightly Amoral Yank Lawyers Know
1. Date no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. No one you just met can leave anything in your home or […]
Draconian
Greek lawgiver Draco (c. 600 BC) standing in U.S. Supreme Court building between the “Light of Wisdom” and Confucius. South Frieze, right […]
Melvin Tolson’s Harlem Gallery
A funny, fearless and densely layered poem (1960s super-critic Karl Shapiro said the “baroque” style used made it funnier and more ironic), […]
Standards
Just realized today that I’m generally not good friends with anyone who hasn’t been (a) kicked out of a bar, (b) thrown […]