Month: October 2022
Karl Nickerson Llewellyn
Karl Nickerson Llewellyn You expect me to tell you that you should be earnest about your work, and get your back into […]
Congrats DNC.
Kudos to my once-respected and once-beloved Democratic Party. You have abandoned 95% of the American people. You putzes. “”Partner Emeritus
Buy and read Gene Dwyer’s She Walks on Gilded Splinters or I’ll come to your house on Halloween.
A New Orleans Tale: Gene Dwyer’s “She Walks On Gilded Splinters” New Orleans-based lawyer Gene Dwyer is a gifted writer who deserves […]
“Hate facts,” anyone?
Can facts and the truth ever be racist, sexist, bigoted or homophobic? It seems like we’re being told “yes.” But that can’t […]
“Hate facts,” anyone?
Can facts and the truth ever be racist, sexist, bigoted or homophobic? It seems like we’re being told “yes.” But that can’t […]
October 22, 1974
Editor’s Note: The following is a verbatim reproduction of an article appearing in The Chronicle, Duke University’s student daily on October 23, […]
Famous long ago””with apologies to Ray Mungo
“Law Biz: What About Clients? Dan Hull is no pussy. If lawyers laid eggs and hatched their young, Randazza would have been […]
Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano
Lowry’s great romp about an alcoholic British consul in a small Mexican town was published in 1947. The story is set on […]
Be advised.
Donate $ to Joe Biggs’s Legal Defense Fund or I’ll come to your house. I’m not kidding this time.
The MC5: The Revolution as Serious Fun.
The MC5 truly believed in the power of rock & roll to change the world. –Rolling Stone Below is the MC5’s Wayne […]
Fifteen Years of Grandiosity
Famous long ago. In the fall of 2007, a Carnegie Mellon study identified this blog (www.whataboutclients.com) as one of the one-hundred most […]
Henry James: On Editors.
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. —Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement […]
HST Storms Duke: Clash in Page Auditorium, drunkenness, bikers, 1A issues, more.
This month marks yet another anniversary of my youthful coverage of Dr. Hunter Thompson’s October 22, 1974 speech at Duke University as […]
Some people.
Some people age better than others. Photo 7/2/2022. I don’t have the words. Hope she’ll agree to supervise at my funeral.
Some people.
Some people age better than others. Photo 7/2/2022. I don’t have the words. Hope she’ll agree to supervise at my funeral.
Winston’s Sudden Deep Thinking: Orwell’s 1984.
“One of these days, thought Winston with a sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too […]
The New New Left
My Once Beloved Left. Group photo yesterday morning. October 3, 2022. 333 Constitution Avenue, Northwest. E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse. Washington, D.C. […]
Day of the Dead
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1859, “The Day of the Dead”. Or DÃa de Muertos. This Mexican holiday spans November 1 and 2, the traditional […]
Flaubert: On His Writing.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce […]