Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. October 2015.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, October 2015. “Takes dynamite to get me up. Too much of everything is just enough.” Thank you Dana, […]
Month: October 2015
At Double Bridge Publishing: Dennis Maley’s “A Long Road Home”
Author, novelist and pol Ben Disraeli would have liked a new D.C.-based publisher that even the surliest and most difficult writers have […]
Building a better associate lawyer from cultural archtypes: Who/what are a few of yours?
The wrong humans have been entering law school for some time now, from the oldest Baby Boomers to the youngest of Gen-Ys. […]
Despite Shell’s Alaska decision, global oil is poised to drill in American Arctic.
Which in the scheme of things is productive, but not without its special uncertainties, expense and a super-short drilling season. As more […]
In Miami New Times: John Pate’s Venezuela.
See feature in the Miami New Times this week on the killing of expat American lawyer John Pate two months ago in […]
Presentism, Evil Depraved Christopher Columbus and Real Life.
Presentism should be self-explanatory. Think of it as the tunnel vision you get using a stuck or broken kaleidoscope. A broken kaleidoscope […]
Heroes: ARH
My Mom, 87, just told me on her cell phone that she’s driving over to her 10:00 AM workout class and will […]
Memo to Millennials: Rock ‘n’ Roll before The Great Neutering.
Satin shoes, plastic boots, cocaine eyes and speed-freak jive. Hey GenY, the no-launch generation. You’re being passed over. We’re not going to […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment: The “C” word.
Pre-trial pro-trip for adepts. Some days lobbing the “C” word into brief chat about obvious differences between Rules 34 and 45 with […]
Fair, balanced, pissed off: Fox News says Hillary owned stage in first debate.
Like a big dog again, Hillary. Where you been? And where oh where were you, Senator Jim Webb? I expected my fellow […]
The Manhattan we loved long-time: “It’s Chinatown, Your Honor.”
Just 20 years ago, before The Great Neutering had squeezed the last bit of edge and play out of Western males, a […]
Unpublished novels or memoirs, anyone?
If you do, visit Double Bridge Publishing. Double Bridge uses crowdsourcing to get unpublished books critiqued, edited, cover-designed, published, marketed, sold and […]
Rude but heartfelt plea to DC’s talented, independent, ever-expanding GenY women attorneys.
To the District of Columbia’s oversupply of rotund GenY professional women, especially lawyers: 1. Whoa. What’s going on? You girls beefin’ up, […]
What if your smart phone, iPad and the Internet were just important tools–and not the main events?
When I see old friends out at restaurants checking their iPads for texts or e-mails, see strangers walking the streets of the […]
Washington Examiner: What’s happening to America’s 40-year-old crude oil export ban?
Despite my unsavory limousine liberal past, I’ve become an ardent fan of the Washington Examiner, a decade-old right-leaning weekly/online publication with smarts, […]
At Above the Law: Dan Harris on American* hostage-business debtors in China.
This past week there was an especially excellent and eye-opening piece from my fellow Midwesterner and friend (and one-on-one basketball-challenged homeboy) Dan […]