The Real Paris
Lots of large international cities have mimes, street people and street theater. But if you live for a long while in DC […]
Month: January 2009
Staffs that work.
See at Lawyers USA the article “Are You Overlooking Your Best Marketing Tool?” by lawyer-editor Sylvia Hsieh. It’s about making your employees […]
The Midwest: Toughen up, bundle up, tap your brakes.
Is that Exit 44A, or a new footpath to Springfield? You live too long in Southern California, you get too soft; too […]
Nino Does Duke.
But can he do that reverse pretzel thing? Alumni and students alike speak of “The Duke Experience” in reverent and hushed tones. […]
Amazon: In the Zone.
And how nice for you. Americans do “small” pretty well; we’ve raised it to an art form in some circles and regions. […]
Hesse’s main point.
Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead… Hermann Hesse, […]
Jim Hassett on alternative fees–Part 4.
Now we know it really won’t go away. At his Legal Business Development, Jim Hassett just published Part 4 of his series […]
Bolivia: The new deal or a race war?
Here’s one we missed in The Economist earlier this week: “A Question of Rights“. Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, is an Amerindian and […]
So, tell me again, what do we do now?
Service Firms, and The Way-Down Global Economy. Some advice, with great related links, from people who think about this stuff all the […]
The Economy: Mr. Obama goes to Capitol Hill.
In The Hill, see “Praise for Obama, Not Votes“. In the Senate, the new president was peppered with questions about the proposal […]
The subject that won’t die: alternative fees.
And you can’t ignore it. Thought leaders like Ron Baker, Pat Lamb, Tom Kane and now law firm leaders won’t let the […]
John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009)
That something-is-missing in the suburbs was one of his great themes, and no one did that better. Although I liked his Bech […]
Energy and the Environment: ‘Real science’ in DC?
“Obama needs to pass in 2009 the mother of all energy bills.” In the yours-in-the-struggle but generally excellent Salon, see “Real Science […]
China Business: What about Dan Harris?
At Dan’s China Law Blog, see “Is Your China Business Recession Resistant? What Is?” Excerpt: My firm has seen increased business of […]
On being a Belfast Protestant Barrister with a lust for spirits.
On Being a Chinese Engineer Guy. On Being a Woman Photographer from Morocco. On Being Ernie from Glen Burnie. And on being […]
Amsterdam has a bit of everything.
Art, religious art, not-religious art, the Anne Frank House (moving, authentic and not to be missed), religion, not-religion, sex for pay, sex […]
Redux: Ernie’s Churchyard Find.
Ernie From Glen Burnie. Not his real name–but he’s a real person, a D.C. lawyer with a golden resume everyone speaks about […]
Cross-cultural mediation: “Don’t have a list of do’s and don’t’s.”
At the award-winning podcast series sponsored by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), hear General Electric in-house lawyer Mike […]
It may be one for the ages: the inauguration address.
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West “” know that […]
Inauguration Intermission: Julia Roberts loses it.
And maybe for good reason. So, respite, anyone? In D.C., Barack Obama’s inauguration is of course History–but it’s become essentially “touristy” history, […]
Dude, where’s my MLK Day?
Did the President-Elect hijack it?
American Signage: Bed-Stuy, Seattle and Johnstown PA
New York Times: ““˜Not Much of a Block,’ but It’s Named for a King“. The Seattle Times: “Dream Remains Alive on Seattle’s […]
True story: Many years ago, my direct ancestor Uncle Seamus left the County Antrim for London and a hard-earned but long and […]
The world’s most prestigious prize.
The Novel Peace Prize has bee given to __ and __- siunce 1901
Popular election of state judges in America: are we done yet?
For watchers of American state judiciary systems, on Tuesday, March 3, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Caperton v. A.T. […]
Pleasure, pain, long distance.
JULIET: ‘Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone”” And yet no farther than a wan-ton’s bird, That lets it hop a […]
Last to rave and to be re-born.
The Phoenix represents to many the life cycle: birth, growth, death and re-birth because from the ashes life arises anew often strengthened […]