Beavis, can you spare a dime?
Breaking: Twenty-somethings, reality collide. MSNBC: “Generation Y job-seekers hit hard“. Excerpt: Younger workers are finding out the hard way that they have […]
Month: January 2009
One big global downer: car sales worldwide.
In The Economist today, read about “The Big Chill“. Excerpts: Sales figures published the week before the show confirmed what everyone already […]
With the exception of those who became psychiatrists–that rarest breed of physician in which educations stepped in science and the humanities somehow […]
Next time: turn off the lights, be very quiet, and lie on the floor.
In other words, pretend it’s Halloween at WAC?‘s house. See Rule 4 and then “Dropping A Summons And Complaint Outside A Door […]
No ordinary times.
“…a time for us all to read fewer newspapers and more history.” Read this one: “Lessons From the Depression” at Bruce MacEwen’s […]
Client costs are your problem, too.
Rule 8: Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs. Ask any associate lawyer or paralegal what a “profit” is. You will get two […]
Hillary’s new trial
Only a senator as forthright and as respected as Dick Lugar (R-Indiana) could raise the question the right way. Hillary is one […]
Exotic jurors: the ample, the deaf, the nasty.
Incontinent jurors are different than you and me, Ernestine. Lots of weird jury lore out there this week. The facts range from […]
“From Mistrust to Cynicism to Corruption”
We are not sure that “Madoff’s a bad man” but do see this one at Trusted Advisor by Charles Green. Thanks to […]
Does culture drive global trends more than economics?
The US, Russia, the EU, China and India may react differently to the same event. See at Richard Lewis’s Cross-Culture, one of […]
New Zealand: A Kiwi summer vacation.
The Griswolds do Easter Island? Well, Wellington’s Geoff Sharp is not Clark Griswold, but do see “How to Salvage a Summer Holiday” […]
Writing well: Why Justin can’t rite–and werk–so gud.
“The Can’t Do Generation?” Can’t work, can’t think on their own, can’t take negative criticism, can’t proofread, can’t write. See Carolyn Elefant’s […]
Clients, and the psychology of the Madoff affair.
Trust is only earned in a deeply personal way–it cannot be garnered and granted by someone else. —The Baby Blog See “The […]
Clients, and the psychology of the Madoff affair.
Trust is only earned in a deeply personal way–it cannot be garnered and granted by someone else. —The Baby Blog See “The […]
Update: Sweet Caroline
According to a blog yesterday at The Economist, new polling shows that Caroline Kennedy‘s quest for Hillary Clinton’s New York U.S. Senate […]
Franken: Good enough, smart enough–but not there yet.
Stuart saves Minnesota by 225 votes. Writer-actor-funnyman Harvard grad Al Franken (color him a big bold D) is certified as winner and […]
111th Congress: The Hill watching the watchers.
See, e.g., the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg. The House Financial Services Committee takes a stab today at the SEC’s past monitoring […]
Force-starting the economy: one way out?
See at Reuters “Japan’s Yosano Says Quantitative Easing May Not Work“. In “quantitative easing“, governments flood the banking system with new money […]
Greenspan: “I made a mistake.”
In Salon, see Andrew Leonard’s excellent “The Economy Crumbled“–but then let’s get busy cleaning up our mess. WAC? prefers Pollyannas who like […]
Samantha Janus, “Guys and Dolls”, London