Month: September 2007

Another American living la vie Parisienne, as she writes a book. Tara Bradford serves Paris Parfait: art, antiques, culture, poetry and politics.

That would be me. Next week, I’ll be working in Portugal–but first stop is in the pleasant Algarve, mainland Portugal’s rolling and […]

“The celebrities who do the most good in Africa…don’t make major announcements about it.” Miki Turner for MSNBC: Hey Paris, Want To […]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native, author, part-time Parisian, and WAC? college classmate to boot, Holly Brubach has this feature in the op-eds of today’s […]

See Nick Bantock’s “Collaged Morocco” at Maryam’s My Marrakesh.

See “Nick Bantock’s collaged Morocco” at Maryam’s My Marrakesh.

You’ll never guess. China Law Blog: “China: Corrupt Me. Corrupt Me Not“, with latest corruption rankings from Transparency International.

As a follow up to our recent post on lawyers’ lack of stiff-upper-lipped-ness, see a January 2006 GeekLawyer piece called “The Personality […]

NBC: Could climate change gradually deplete and eventually dry up the Mekong River–which runs from the Tibetan Mountains to the South China […]

Salon.com posted 9-28-07 Blog Title: The Oxford Medievalist ____Author: ANGEVIN13

Salon.com posted 9-27-07 Blog Title: Upper Left http://upper-left.blogspot.com/ Author: Shaun Dale

Salon.com posted 9-26-07 Blog Title: War Room (actually a part of the salon.com website) http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/ Author: Tim Grieve

Salon.com posted 9-27-07 Blog Title: Brave New Films http://bravenewfilms.org/ Author: Robert Greenwald (Possible contact for Hazo treatment?)

Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire started out as a mission “to tame and civilize the wild and savage American Indians”, or […]

The Chronicle: D.C. lawyer Charles Cooper has told ABC News that a majority of current and former lacrosse players and their families […]

See at Berlin-based Observing Hermann “Heuschrecken ohne Ende” (literally Endless Locusts). Note: Hermann’s kidding, mainly.

In olden times, just over 30 years ago in the mid-1970s, the environmental movement was still young, ‘environmentalists’ were a troublesome new […]

Parts of Patriot Act ruled unconstitutional. Portland, Oregon judge strikes down two provisions which allow search warrants to be issued sans showing […]

Markets pay lawyers what markets will bear–and you need great young people to help you serve high-end clients with complex problems. Just […]

Re: courts and lawyer cluelessness. See at Overlawyered this one: “Furor over Mikal Watts ‘judges owe us’ letter“.WAC?‘s said before that popular […]

And will you know what to do once you get there? London-based Legal Week, armed with a survey, reports that “US firms […]

WAC?, still north of Los Angeles, called last night to report that he may have to move back East sooner and not […]

Updated 7:30 PM EST: Everyone loses. Columbia allows aggressive, long-winded, grandstanding and scripted opening “questions”, preventing Ahmadinejad from looking as bad as […]

Man is by nature a political animal. —Aristotle, Politics Beginning today, and as our time permits, we’ll start showcasing a few of […]

Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes today to read Blawg Review #127, which is hosted at Anne Reed’s Deliberations. […]

Please see a piece by Texas lawyer Mark Bennett I’ve been brooding about ever since I saw it: “Resiliency“. But don’t obsess […]

By Alonso Duralde, MSNBC film critic: Big Fame, Little Talent: These folks are all famous, but do they have the chops to […]

The site of the always erudite, Rioja-drinking and just plain fun lawyer-professor-blogger-pundit, Charon QC, has a new look, feel and format. Still, […]

With apologies to the late Lloyd Bentsen. Lat-envy. Some of us–not WAC?–have it. Even uber-Milwaukee trial lawyer and jury guru Anne Reed, […]