Resist Western Wankspeak.
Let’s nix professional, corporate and academic wankspeak and start speaking like human beings who value originality in language. Examples of wankspeak: empower, […]
Author: Dan Hull
Irish
At Toomebridge (by Seamus Heaney) Where the flat water Came pouring over the weir out of Lough Neagh As if it had […]
Coffee?
At Dupont Circle Sunday Farmer’s Market. About 10 AM. Where can I get some Unwoke Fascist Uber-WASP Sexist Racist Homophobic Pre-Colonial Unfair […]
Consider “no engagement” letters to some would-be unsophisticated or crazy clients you’ve turned down.
Lots of conversations with persons who approach your firm with a legal issue do not result in your getting hired. The matter […]
Victim America
Morning, America. Monday February 3, 2020. Get your victim on. If Victimhood eludes you this week, you’re doing it all wrong. 😎
Trump.
People are a bit on edge in day-to-day liberal DC. Last 6 months especially. I was born in the city. I live […]
Start over?
Love and Tolerance of Speech and Ideas””not having “correct” or “certain” ideas””is what Western Liberalism is really all about. Get off your […]
Free Speech and Expression Friday: Get Off Your Knees.
It’s #FreeSpeechFriday. Get off your knees. Stop talking about Speech and Expression. Start living Speech and Expression. Stop being Cultural Peasants and […]
Making Blind Men See: Rosamund Pike Does Isben
Great characters never go out of date. When the lights go down and the curtain rises on the magic square of life, […]
Sharp Dressed Man
Cuff links, stick pin. When I step out I’m gonna do you in. –Gibbons, Hill and Beard (ZZ Top)
Eagle Update
The email I got yesterday from “Boy Scouts of America” and National Eagle Scout Association bore the below image along with a […]
Rule 11 of WAC?’s 12 Rules: Treat Each Co-Worker Like He or She Is Your Best Client.
Rule 11: Treat Each Co-Worker Like He or She Is Your Best Client.* Or, Why did Big Sally throw a DC phone […]
The Great Shark Hunt.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. –“Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl”, Rolling Stone #155, February 28, 1974) […]
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (1967 – 2020)
I was shocked Monday to learn that writer Elizabeth Wurtzel has died at 52. She was also a lawyer who worked for […]
Merry Christmas, DC Ethiopia.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Merry Christmas today to many new friends in Washington, DC’s growing Ethiopian community. DC’s Ethiopians have added to […]
Gustave Flaubert: On Standards.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce […]
Desperately seeking diversity.
Happy New Year. My neighborhood in DC has turned into some kind of non-diverse Orwellian-H.G. Wells Mother of all BetaFests where most […]
Euripides: On Slavery.
“This is Slavery: not to speak one’s thought.” “” EurÃpides (480-406 BC)
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from generations of American Hulls, Holdens, McQuittys, Bondurants, Riemers, Pattons and Olivers. And J. Dan Hull, Jr., the boy standing […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from generations of American Hulls, Holdens, McQuittys, Bondurants, Riemers, Pattons and Olivers. And J. Dan Hull, Jr., the boy standing […]
Lafayette Park
General Jackson, a Scots-Irish Badass like no other, says farewell to the day. Taken 4:40 PM today.
Disraeli: On Bad Books.
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]
