A Kashmir Hill gem in Forbes: “Hello, Stranger”.
The Blowback of our new Face Culture? A gem we missed at first. Kashmir Hill writes full-time about privacy issues and the […]
Month: September 2011
Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
Wangari Muta Maathai was a Kenyan environmentalist and political activist educated in the United States and Kenya. In the 1970s, she founded […]
The Economist: “The Palestinians deserve a state–just as the Israelis do.”
See in Saturday’s The Economist “Yes to Palestinian Statehood“. It begins: The Palestinians are edging closer to getting a recognised state, at […]
Reason To Live.
Go over there, turn on the light. Hey, all the lights. Come over here, stand on that chair. Yeah, that’s right.
Heaven.
Cream: Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton.
Summer Fun: American Family Vacation Moment.
Play loud, Weenies: You remember the Griswolds, Clark and Ellen, don’t you?
The Economist: Anti-Israeli Sentiment Surges in Egypt.
See The Economist‘s piece Saturday on Egypt and Israel, “Feeling the Heat of Isolation“. Excerpts: Israel has diplomatic relations with only three […]
The Economist: Anti-Israeli Sentiment Surges in Egypt.
See The Economist‘s piece yesterday on Egypt and Israel, “Feeling the Heat of Isolation“. Excerpts: Israel has diplomatic relations with only three […]
Where Do You Practice Law? In ClientTown? Or LawyerTown?
“The Lawyers”, circa 1855, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) Are the three gentlemen in Daumier’s famous sketch “client-centric” or merely “lawyer-oriented”? We will never […]
Marrakesh in Egypt: Did You Ever Love a Gifted Woman?
He told me that the secret to marrying a successful woman was to realize that you had married not just the woman […]
Well, here’s our 9-11 Ten Years After Post: American Life, Fear and Squeak-Squeak.
Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and […]
Man, Reach and Wonder. “…him we can save.”
Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen. –Goethe Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than Man. –Sophocles in […]
Writing Well: The Editors.
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. —Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement […]
Writing for Clients, Judges, and other Humans.
Insane Lawyer Posse? Lawyers, including some judges, have a certain way of talking to each other on paper which (1) really isn’t […]
The Million Dollar Handwritten Thank-You Note: It Happens.
Don’t be White Collar Trash. Don’t mess this one up. Just do it. If you are interviewing, prospecting for clients or have […]
Big Sur: So Perfect It Seems Painted On.
This stretch of road just south of Monterey has “unnatural” grandeur: it’s so perfect it seems painted on. My fourth time here. […]