“Turn off the lights & lie on the floor.” Halloween, Druids–and Your Kids.
Are your kids hanging out with Pagans? Just a suggestion if you forget to buy the candy. Yes, Halloween–also called “Pooky Night” […]
Month: October 2011
Phillips Collection in D.C. Right Now: Edgar Degas.
This month through January 8 the Phillips Collection at Dupont Circle features Degas’s Dancers at the Barre which Lily and I had […]
Kabul: The Innocent’s Shining Eye.
Give us that old-time ambition. In case you never worked it out, What About Clients?/What About Paris? is merely about Quality. Values. […]
Now What? With Colonel Gadhafi Gone, what about OPEC production?
See in Forbes “The Death of Gadhafi and the Future of Oil Markets“. Excerpts: Libyan oil production hit 1.559 million barrels of […]
Natural Resources: Will Oklahoma “Sell Water to Save Water”?
Water, Drinking and Wastewater Systems, and the Catch-22 for Western states in 2011. We ran across this blog piece in Environmental Protection […]
Rule 12: Have Fun. If you’re a professional, and it’s Not Fun, please reevaluate.
Here’s how my “boss”, an unhappy energetic young Midwesterner, found fun, love, hard work, humility, a little sanity, power, friends and enemies–and […]
Natural Resources: Will Oklahoma Sell Water to Save Water?
Drinking and Wastewater Systems. We ran across this piece in Environmental Protection magazine entitled ____. As worn-out water-related infrastructure in many states–from […]
“It’s over, Muffy. Back to Suffolk. I’ll mix the martinis. You pack the good swizzle sticks.”
Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You old white people. It is […]
Law’s No Longer Local, Lester: Try a Tennessee Trial Lawyer.
What does it take be a great trial lawyer, anyway? Nashville’s John Day may have the answer. No surprise to us that […]
Beats Adderall & Anger Hands-Down, Jack. Need Focus?
Also helps to be smart, patrician, well-educated, well-traveled, handsome, driven, resilient, optimistic, athletic, happy, way fun, charismatic, clean, sober, hopeful and hopelessly […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment: Be There 24/7–or Give Walmart a Shot.
Lord Chief Justice Sir John (“Pompous”) Popham, circa 1603 Lawyers aren’t special. We’re in a service business. We are not royalty. Get […]
Hot Legs, Too: The Best Damn Customer Service Blogs & Websites.
Quality Content. Class. “Legs”. Solid relationships with customers, clients and buyers are every business’s real assets. Great customers are always up for […]
Drinking in Marrakech: It Could Make a Blind Man See.
Photos below are by Maryam. You can and should visit her at My Marrakesh. See The Djellabar Bar: Or a Tale of […]
Stop talking & writing like a lawyer. It’s Pompous & Prissy. Use “people” words instead.
Let’s get over ourselves, okay? Doesn’t changing legal writing to just clear and simple writing come down to leadership? Setting a better […]
Here’s to you, Self-Esteem Movement: Please stay in your coffin.
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody. –Sir W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911). Dramatist, Librettist, Illustrator.
I’ve wondered, too: “Why can’t flood water get hauled to drought-stricken land?”
Water Transfer Technology, anyone? Clean Streams, anyone? For a year I wrote a bi-monthly column on federal and state clean water issues […]
The Economist on Samsung: “Asia’s new model company”.
A new GE or P&G? Maybe so. But we must add a dash of serious if wonderful in-your-face quirk. See “Samsung and […]
Breaking: Massachusetts bans naming any more male infants “Justin”, “Joshua”, “Jeremy” or “Brandon”.
Governor: “No more poof names.” Law goes into effect January 1, 2012. California and New York may follow.