Month: November 2011

Political persuasion, party affiliation and sexual preference rarely define anyone. Heart, soul and moxie do. We will all miss Barney Frank, who […]

See at Richard Nahem’s I Prefer Paris Meredith Mullins: A New Perspective, which appeared yesterday. It begins: I first met Chula on […]

Lawyer, leader, author and Renaissance man, my friend Roy Herron is a mega-smart, energetic and genuinely people-loving Tennessee state senator who many […]

The respected Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts a gloomy near-term future–unless Western leaders step up. See this piece at […]

I don’t see it–but the Washington Post does. See “George and Mitt Romney: Like father, like son, until a political parting point“.

An ancient copper mining town invaded by old hippies with shiny new ideas, Bisbee is one of the few venues in America […]

The dance was popularized by a song and its accompanying footwork, “The Charleston,” by James P. Johnson in the Broadway musical “Runnin’ […]

To most people who actually live in Washington, D.C., Jenkins Hill is the name of a now-defunct but enormously popular yuppie bar […]

Although I’ve voted for a Republican for president only once, watching two major GOP presidential candidates self-destruct these past few weeks has […]

The Paris Blog is by Americans, Canadians, Brits and Frenchmen who write about “the daily intricacies of life in Paris”. It’s edited […]

We think not–but let’s hear out a European leader who has wanted all along for Europe to start working again. The Economist‘s […]

See at Dan Harris’s consistently fine and useful China Law Blog this one by Rachel Buker: “How To Stop China-Based Domain Name […]

See this guest post by American prof Tim Flood at Richard Lewis’s Cross-Culture. Not sure I buy that “US optimism is inherently […]

Man up there, Hoss. Blog and comment under Your Real Name. You’re not Alexander Hamilton, James Madison or an Iranian dissident. Well–okay, […]

Lawyer, leader and Renaissance man, my friend Roy Herron is a smart, energetic and genuinely people-loving Tennessee state senator who many observers […]

As Greece forms a much-needed new government (MSNBC), some eyes turn to Italy. At the G20 summit that concluded in Cannes on […]

House built in 1819. Solitude, Lucy the Beagle, ghosts, Lily, me.

The following Customer Service Tip of American Express (its retail arm) comes to us via a youngish California employee of ours, and […]

Clients, Buyers, Customers, Patients, Consumers and The Served are First. Companies and Organizations are Second. The Workers (including Management) are Third. Got […]

Republished here from our original October 20, 2006 post. Work-Life Balance is the Employee’s responsibility–not Management’s. Let people who must work and […]

Apart from women who take care of themselves, lawyers who read more than CLE catalogues and a sizable part of the populace […]