Writing Well: Melvin Tolson’s Harlem Gallery turned 50 this year.
A funny but fearless poem featuring street characters living in Harlem in New York City, it was first published in 1965 oubliIt […]
Month: February 2015
It’s legal, mostly: DC’s Hip-osie may now rock the ganj’.
As of 12:01 a.m. today, persons 21 and older in the District of Columbia can: “¢ Possess 2 ounces or less of […]
Did the House Appropriations Committee just go hippie on us?
The congressional staff of a respected seven-term Ohio Republican routinely filed all office documents relating to “Indians” under “Environmental Matters”, the staffers […]
“50 Shades of Grey” is an overwhelmingly limp cinematic experience bordering on fraud. Do not see it.
In case you’re Bevis or Butthead and might actually like this movie I won’t spoil it for you by backing up this […]
Congratulations to Washington, D.C. lawyer Eric O’Neill on 14th anniversary of capture and arrest of FBI double agent Robert Hanssen.
Congratulations to Renaissance man, Washington, D.C. super-lawyer, super-friend and American hero Eric O’Neill on the 14th anniversary of the February 18, 2001 […]
Emory Law School totally loses it and “gets students blogging early with innovative new class.”
At the outset, let’s talk about me a little. Lawyers blogging is, obviously, fine with me. In 2005, my 25th year in […]
UPDATED: In federal trial court testimony, can you sneak your witness’s religion into evidence? Do you want to?
My business litigation practice over the years has been chiefly in federal courts before one of our roughly 900 appointed federal judges. […]
The Teaching President: Obama got it right at the prayer breakfast. He was pitch perfect.
Last week when President Obama pointed out that “slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ”, […]