Author: Dan Hull

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost (1874-1963) spent […]

Last week, in the comments of an article at Above the Law by Shannon Achimalbe entitled Guess Who Else is Reading Your […]

“If you are going to tell the truth be funny or they will kill you.” “” Billy Wilder, American Filmmaker (1906-2002)

The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]

See from some years ago a post by Dan Ernst in Legal History Blog on “Law and English Literature“. Ernst reviews and […]

Jack Kerouac’s 97th birthday was on Saturday, April 17. Almost missed it. Since you all talk about the work that made him […]

What do members of Congress really do, anyway? What have they done traditionally? True, staffs are bigger now–but much of life on […]

4/1/2022 I apologize to everyone for labeling Judge Jackson high-end free-pass affirmative action Ivy League kitchen help. That was wrong. We should […]

Now hear this. Not supporting civil rights, women’s rights or gay rights 100% 24/7 does not make you a racist, misogynist or […]

Damn. It’s getting cold again in the northern hemisphere. Cold as a witch’s tit, Jack. The purpose of this post””which over the […]

To us, in our lapsed estate, resting, not advancing, resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks. We […]

Do some common sense work before you take a deposition. And please don’t squander the client’s budget out of sheer laziness. You […]

Real Indian Hill Braves graduated in 1971. Yeah, that’s right. Class of “˜71 is having a reunion in 6 weeks. April 29-May […]

My 1A mentor Ronald Coleman turns 89 tomorrow 3/11/2022. Thanks for picking me up and driving me to Woodstock, Ron. My parents […]

Around 1620, Jacques Fouquières painted Germany’s Heidelberg Castle, a famous structure in both German history and art, in “Hortus Palatinus” (below). Although […]

It’s not school. It’s no longer about you. (See Rules 1-6 here and at the links Rules 7, 8 and 9.) Practicing […]

I am not too ideological. I simply like people. On the Hill I worked for a hardworkIng liberal Dem Senator focused on […]

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Jacob Riis photo of Bandits’ Roost (1890) Old neighborhoods, like old people, have strong personalities. And they are feisty as Hell. The […]

Everyone in your shop has to buy into CS like a cult, like a religion–like an angry sermon that lifted them out […]

Que beaultè ot trop plus qu’humaine. Mais ou sont les neiges d’antan? —François Villon (1431-1463) Poet, Drifter, Dreamer, Thief.

Half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about […]

They’re picking up prisoners and putting ’em in a pen. And all she wants to do is dance. –Danny Kortchmar/WB Music Corp. […]