I continue to be dumbfounded by Tennessee’s system of regulating the law profession — even as I now am no longer part of it. Today, more than three months after I sent in a renewed application to withdraw my Tennessee… Continue Reading
It’s a good thing to see stupid beer regulation laws slowly going off the books. Pennsylvania is considering getting rid of its “case laws,” which require that beer stores (which are, as I take it, different than liquor stores) only… Continue Reading
This is small-town politics executed clumsier than usual. First there was the “God resolution” and now this. Actually, the return of the term limits puts the “God resolution” in a whole new light, as the Commissioners were clearly scrambling for… Continue Reading
I got another dues statement from the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility today, with a copy of my Tennessee bar card (printed, as usual, on cheap paper). Rather than procrastinate and incur another damned tax this year, I’m just going… Continue Reading
The Wife and I were very excited to see happy photographs of our friends from Tennessee, taken with the sun setting in the ocean behind their backs. That meant they were visiting in San Diego! I offered, on behalf of… Continue Reading
My parents have apparently been having a lot of trouble getting carpet installed in their basement back at The Estate At Louisville. They have my sympathies, but they can’t say that The Wife and I didn’t warn them that people… Continue Reading
I got a couple of tickets when I lived in Knoxville, but I never had to do what this woman did to get out of them. And good thing, too, because as it turns out, it didn’t work. Maybe she… Continue Reading
It turns out that I cannot place my Tennessee license on “inactive” status since I am still practicing law in California. So the only way for me to get out of paying this stupid “Professional Privilege Tax” is to surrender… Continue Reading
Today, I got a most unpleasant piece of mail. I’ve long been suggesting that one of the nice things about Tennessee was that the government is relatively libertarian in its outlook; the state does not govern or do things more… Continue Reading
In order to protect the sanctity of marriage, Tennessee voters passed the Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment. That way, no same-sex couples will be able to be married in Tennessee. That way, the sacred and ancient institution of marriage will be… Continue Reading