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September 28, 2022
#HelpJoeBiggs It's About Fairness--Not Politics or Culture.
No hates asking for $ more than me. Thanks from the bottom of my heart to those who have given. But color us--Norm Pattis, me and Team Biggs--desperate in trying to level the playing field. This is one of the greatest David v. Goliath stories in American criminal law history. Great defense lawyers with an unrelenting work ethic is not enough. If you want to give between $500 and $2000 anonymously, contact me at 619-895-8336. This a War. It is now about resources. A 6 week trial starts December 12. There will likely be some appeals. Learn about Purple Heart earner Joe Biggs in the GSG post and video.
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September 27, 2022
Symphony
Just one thing improves a sunny brisk Fall day in a world class city in Europe or the Americas. The lunchtime bells of a dozen churches at once. No one dismisses them. Centuries of noon chimes. Centuries.
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September 25, 2022
LGBTQ
Old gay rights: We just want to be equal.
New gay rights: Anything not gay is fascist.
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September 21, 2022
Kerouac famously getting it exactly right: On The Road.
Jack Kerouac sometimes got the thrill and promise of simply being alive pitch perfect. The famous "mad to be saved" passage happens in the first chapter On The Road, and very early on:
...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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This is a family, too
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September 16, 2022
J. Dan Hull, II, 1933
J. Dan Hull, II, 1933. Yale Ph.D picture. 2 words: Class act. American dream overachiever and gentlemen's gentlemen. Authentic and honest--and never went out of his way to trumpet either trait. My Grandpop. First Hull in Virginia-Missouri line to even go to college. His dad self-educated John Hull (JDH I) made his first stake as a laborer building railroads out West and ended up owning a drug store in Mountain Grove, Missouri. Grandpop, who fought with his dad a lot, entered University of Missouri at 16 years old and and got his Masters degree from University of Chicago. Grandpop's family were relative newcomers to the colonies compared to my Mom's side of the family, who got to Massachusetts in 1634. Grandpop's great-great-great grandfather came here as a teen from Germany to Virginia about 1750. Scholar. Author. Diplomat. World Traveler. Teacher. Manager. Executive. Musical. Great card player. Sportsman. Fisherman. He had taste, too. Well-read and well-traveled. Effortlessly well-dressed at all times, Grandpop looked more elegant in a T-shirt than most men do in a tux. Loved, admired and respected by the cream of Missourians and Washington, D.C. Member of DC's famous merit-based Cosmos Club. Hung out with John Kenneth Galbraith and Elliot Richardson. Not bad for an Ozarks mountain boy. And great, I'm told, with women folk. Raised 3 sisters after his young mother, Nancy Susan McQuitty--who he adored--died in 1917 on Christmas Eve, when he was always strangely quiet. He lived 87.5 years. (March 11, 1900 - October 13, 1987). Both his Dad JDH I and his granddad Bill (a confederate soldier) lived even longer lives, dying in 1929 and 1953. His wife--and my pistol of a grandmother, Alene Oliver Hull--died in their house in Springfield, MO at 101. Grandpop taught me a lot. I miss him a lot. If it were not for 3 Missourians--Pat Bevier and Mary Helen Allen, my Dad's first cousins, and my marvelous new-found cousin, Super-Mom and Walmart exec Kristi Towe--I would have had a very hard time putting all this together accurately over the past few years. (Well, I may never have; it's time-consuming and I was always doing it half-assed and guessing based on things Grandpop told me, the Internet and 3 "mysterious" not-so-mysterious wills dating back to the 1700s my Dad John Hull gave me.) But 99.5% of the German Hulls is knowable--just not as well-kept as the history of my Mom's family (Holden) who've been keeping accurate records through the Colonial Dames organizations for several generations. Thanks for the work, you 3.
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September 15, 2022
We're losing It.
Why are we still shutting down Speech and Expression everywhere in the name of civility, fashion and especially "anti-racism"? Even LinkedIn wants you to speak, write and act in a particular way. Even Humor, Satire and Parody must be stylized. Why is that acceptable? Why is that the norm? Why won't people stand up to this? We are losing our most important human asset: fun, un-fun, comfortable, uncomfortable, reassuring, disrupting free expression. Little by little. Few people apparently can even see this. Folks, this is everyone's business. Right now. Don't get used to what's happening to us here.
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September 11, 2022
Thank you.
I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart who contributed to Joe Biggs’s Legal Defense Fund for his J6 trial. We pick our jury 3 months from tomorrow (December 12) for a 6 week trial. Even wildly unpopular defendants in our federal criminal justice system deserve a shot at an even playing field. Thank you.
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September 09, 2022
Farewell Big Sister, Plugger, Soldier, North Star.
The Queen, 1926-2022
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September 07, 2022
Pointe Aux Barques, MI. Est. 1896
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September 06, 2022
Are we not men?
Nothing in the Universe is cooler than Muddy Waters live in 1971 singing Manish Boy. Nothing. This is music that GenY and the generations after can't neuter. "I'm a rollin' stone. I'm a man-child. I'm a hoochie coochie man....."
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September 04, 2022
Teach this one to the help, Campers.“Rule 6. When You Work, You Are Marketing.”
And you are welcome. Sure. When you work, you are marketing. Never forget that. You are crafting and delivering services to solve problems. You are constantly sending even the most veteran and sophisticated users of legal services (think GC and his or her team for a large publicly-traded company) small but powerful ads. It is always true. True for a brand new client you’ve pitched for years and is finally trying you out. True for a longstanding client who’s been impressed enough to engage your firm for decades in a number of practice areas. The messaging never stops. Rule Six comes from our hopelessly annoying but consistently right, way practical, and world-famous 12 Rules of Client Service.
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