White stuff we might like.
This blog is written chiefly by boring Anglos who grew up in the 1960-1970s and said “gee” and “super” a lot. They […]
Month: May 2010
Troutbeck, Windermere, Cumbria, England
(from June 18, 2006 post) We live in a world that never sleeps–and now it combines the ancient with the digital. Technology […]
Doris, let’s talk. Close the door and pull up a couch.
Insane Clown Laws. In Michigan, the Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act, Act 453 of 1976, Sec. 209, bans discrimination in employment based […]
P&G’s Alan Lafley: Examine the “meaningful outside”.
The Consumer as Boss and Laboratory. For nine years, from 2000 to mid-2009, A.G. Lafley served as chairman of Cincinnati-based Procter & […]
Not a good day so far: The world’s stock markets.
Global markets said to “swoon”. To blame for today’s plunge are Europe’s debt crisis, its faltering banks (especially in Spain), way-low oil […]
The Senate’s over-hyped overhaul.
And is ‘shambolic’ a real word? See The Economist‘s take on last week’s Senate approval of the financial reform bill in “Almost […]
Speaking of Club Ned: Time to man up, grow up, and go on record.
Our new digital culture permits a certain accepted wimpiness to masquerade as privacy and personal style. But anonymous writers are rarely worth […]
Main Street’s May Day Times Square Wake-up Call: Did America listen this time?
Counterterrorism expert and D.C. lawyer Eric O’Neill, The Georgetown Group, on what the Times Square bombing attempt means. We Yanks get the […]
Are we getting the big hint yet? The Times Square Bombing Attempt
Now on Main Street: Islamic terrorism is decentralized, domestic, and in your backyard. We note that this week’s Newsweek and cover article […]
“Hey, is that an elected county judge in your pocket?”
“Or are you just hugely happy to see me?“ Even when popularly-elected judges are “good”–and, to be fair, there are some great […]
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NYC: You still feel like a religion.
“What of the cripple who hates dancers?” — جبران خليل جبران بن ميکائيل بن سعد For all the hassles, if you live […]
Tan, ready, and re-launched in Europe
A fine real-time resource on the European Court of Justice. About a month ago, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Allard Knook re-launched his […]
A Man in Full: Duncan Campbell King
It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the […]
R. D. Lewis: Got Grϋndlichkeit?
Two Englishmen, meeting on the street may say “Hello”‘ and exchange brief words on the weather. Two Germans are likely to ask […]
Nominee Kagan
The hearings start in about 6 weeks. The better coverage is at The Washington Post. Kagan, 50, and in most respects the […]
The man who found proof of lame lawyer habits.
Sir Ernie of Glen Burnie. Lawyers who won’t take a stand is a time-honored tradition. Our hero, Ernie from Glen Burnie, who […]
The man who found proof of lame lawyer habits.
Stand-Up Guys: Ernie (left), a dead-ringer for 1950s icon Neal Cassady, and WAP, during their pre-lawyer Beat years at Nathan’s, a D.C. […]
Real Mothers
“Help. I am growing up in Western Massachusetts”.
UK wakes up to hung Parliament.
See AP for what happened and The Guardian for what it means.
Nashville: The Big Moxie
Tennessee is the Volunteer State. Nashville Business Journal: How businesses are helping. The Tennessean: Obama. BBC coverage. Southern moxie: The Grand Ole […]
Nashville
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The EU, the Euro and the Greek debt bail-out.
As actor Bill Murray might note while hunting shades and bogeymen in Manhattan, here’s something you don’t see every day. For starters, […]
Running dog Yankee Mr. Oliver want fries with this?
Hooters restaurants in China? Say it ain’t so, Joe. Los Angeles Times: Hooters Underscores Mixed Sexual Messages in China. Maybe Greater China […]
The Rules
Four years ago, we put this blog and the firm behind it at considerable risk of being known as the lawyer-authors of […]