William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Return from the Harvest, 1878
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), Return from the Harvest, 1878. Cummer Art Museum, Jacksonville
“Hi! how are u?”
Classic from 2016. When men were men and women were merely crazy…. NOTE and WARNING: So a youngish attractive person (by normal […]
CERTIORARI GRANTED. What SCOTUS will be hearing and deciding in coming term year.
(ORDER LIST: 600 U.S.) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 CERTIORARI GRANTED 22-277 MOODY, ATT’Y GEN. OF FL, ET AL. V. NETCHOICE, LLC, ET […]
RMN v JFK
September 1960 and I was 7. We had just moved from Detroit (Pleasant Ridge) to Chicago (Highland Park). Just started 2nd grade. […]
Thank you”¦.
Good morning. Jack London and I want to thank BLM, American Antifa, the major TV networks, NYT, WaPo and the modern Dem […]
Bus station skank
Is it bus station skank month at FB and Instagram? Keep getting these messages and follows from 20 year olds named Nadine, […]
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) – Return from the Harvest (1878)
Kudos Prof. Ronald Takaki
Here’s a gem on American immigration since 1607 written by UC Berkeley prof and progressive Ronald Takaki. Not a hateful anti-racism book […]
September 23, 2023 about 3:00 AM
Fall equinox tomorrow at about 3 am. Indulge Druid friends and acquaintances. You’ve been told.
Low income Duke students
NYT is worried Duke is running out of these. When I was at Duke, low-income students were always willing to do errands […]
“We live in a world that never sleeps”: Blawg Review #65, 7-10-06.
We live in a world that never sleeps. Most mornings, lawyers at my firm get e-mails from people in all manner of […]
Flaubert: Standards.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce […]
#7 USNWR
So cool. My high school was #197. My law school way up there. And Dook is #7. Am so blassed. No whit […]
Romain Rolland: Real Life
There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]
Tell a story
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Portrait of […]
London on writing
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London
London on writing
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London
Borges’s El Aleph: A story like no other
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. – Hamlet Act 2, Scene […]
H.G. Wells on Editors
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft. —H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Labor Day Encore: Love, Labour and Legal London.
Here is the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost. You can read it aloud–or, even better, act […]
Rule 8: Think Like a Client. Help Control Costs.
Rule 8 is Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs. The 2006 Explanatory Note for Rule 8–we reluctantly decided that an Advisory Committee […]
Great Slackoisie Moments in American Drama: David Mamet.
Blake [Alec Baldwin]: Nice guy? Good father? –Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet
