There have been some stresses at work recently. Some unusual, some usual. Today’s stresses came on heavy. My paralegal commented that she had never, in the six years I’ve been at this law firm, seen me as angry as I… Continue Reading
EDK writes on Forbes about the changes we’re going to need to make for a better environment and to deal with Peak Oil. The car culture we’ve cultivated since Eisenhower’s highway project won’t survive when gas prices get too high,… Continue Reading
Illinois leads the fifty United States with six five of these things, half two of them in Chicago. New York State has five of them, all in New York City (in fact, I think all of them are in Manhattan).… Continue Reading
Andy Rooney retired from writing and delivering essays on 60 Minutes on October 5, 2011. On November 4, 2011, he died, at the age of 92. Working at a law firm where we do a lot trusts and wills, it’s… Continue Reading
[The names of the city and schools have been changed.] Yesterday, I had what was the worst substitute teaching experience of my relatively short career. There was no single event, but rather it was one thing after all day long.… Continue Reading
In an exchange Tuesday up on the main page, wardsmith asked me if I thought voters had a right to privacy. I smelled a rhetorical trap coming because the answer seemed so obvious — and, quite frankly, the exchange happened… Continue Reading
I’m getting ready to throw the End-Of-Prohibition Party. So of course I’m thinking of old standards. Bear in mind that the original of this one was in 1928 in German, but didn’t make it into English until the New York… Continue Reading
Client comes in for a first-time consult. Does not have a situation at all. Very slim possibility that if person X does action Y to the client, and company Z fails to respond appropriately, and if Mercury rises in Aquarius… Continue Reading
The man is a god to trivia geeks everywhere. But last week he made a surprising public declaration. And look how he’s been reduced in circumstance: (Seriously, I’d be willing to walk a mile in his moccasins. Wouldn’t you?)
You may recall a bit from a couple weeks ago concerning the cross atop the municipal water tower in Whitesville, Tennessee. I thought the Mayor’s reaction to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s lawsuit threat misued the word “terrorist,” and the… Continue Reading