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September 01, 2007
London's GeekLawyer these days
Velvet-voiced barrister GeekLawyer, sans Ruthie, does Podcast 12 and defames WAC?, sort of. Our main blogger, my boss, is an energetic and inspirational guy, with strange tastes in humans.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Canada's Slaw on a roll
No bad pun intended. But I noticed at my laptop from my perch here above Cannery Row and the stunning blue Monterey Bay that the excellent Slaw.ca--it mixes an eye for the important with competent writing--serves especially good fare lately. See, e.g., Canadian Kyoto Report Released, Small Arms Survey 2007 - Americans Own Most of the Guns and Making the Most of Blogs and Wikis. "Slaw is a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and IT, etc."--and a lot more these days.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:07 PM | Comments (0)
August 31, 2007
Former Durham DA Mike Nifong back in court
See here, from The Chronicle, Duke's daily newspaper.
UPDATE 9/1/07: "Ex-Durham DA sentenced to one day in jail"
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 09:32 AM | Comments (0)
Two posts you should read today
How to define your niche, at Jim Hassett's Legal Business Development.
Hey Mister, Can you spare a Dime....Or a Client?, at Tom Kane's Legal Marketing Blog.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 06:20 AM | Comments (0)
August 30, 2007
Happy Birthday, Minor Wisdom.
Three years ago New Orleans-based Ray Ward, our favorite lawyer-as-human, Renaissance Man, and guardian of the King's English, started his fine Minor Wisdom. "Please don't tell my mother/I'm a saloon and a moonshine lover." --L. Nyro
Posted by JD Hull at 10:37 PM | Comments (0)
Ruthie's Excellent U.S. Adventure
Ruthie of Ruthie's Law, GeekLawyer's former co-blogger, and allegedly both alluring and sexually acquistive, posts about it in part here. Her trip will be in September and to a Midwestern city, where she hopes to meet my boss--who doesn't like the Midwest much and doesn't sound much like The Woodman. But WAC?, currently headed to Monterey, indeed is an accomplished philanderer in any jurisdiction, and does in my view sound a bit disturbed from time to time.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 04:16 PM | Comments (0)
August 29, 2007
Up in Monterey
Alaska, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and San Diego (think of the latter as Cincy with decent weather, an ocean, much higher prices) within 10 days time in that sequence--and their not so subtle differences in light, space, time zones, flora and fauna--will put the zap on anyone's head. For the next 5 days, and over Labor Day, I'll go to Big Sur and then Cannery Row to re-group, sharpen tools, re-read the rules, meet with some serious idea mongers and try out new ideas of my own.
In addition to marketing, customer service, foreign affairs, IT, global warming, the future of the stage, the history of Europe and fly-fishing as a "now" spiritual exercise, there will be low-keyed talk of politics in hushed tones: Hillary, Obama, Rudy, the old AG/new AG thing, and of course concern and sporadic gloating about the new Bauman-Hinson-esque Foley-Craig congressional closet gay syndrome, which Holden Oliver (allegedly a "D") has already posted about in spectacularly poor taste.
Well, Holden's a fine lawyer, and a funny dude. And like the passable poet he is, Holden is mainly suggestive but correct: when it became painfully clear that the Democratic Party couldn't do anything right for 8 years, the GOP stepped up like champs to help.
Great country or what?
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
"Wretched human, make that next martini bone dry..."
The Dogs of Score. AP reports that Helmsley leaves her dog $12 million in trust.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Humans to blame for hot summer?
That's the word, at least for last summer, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. See here, from MSNBC.com.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 04:57 AM | Comments (0)
August 28, 2007
Leave Out the Parts that People Will Skip
Thanks to Pat Lamb for pointing out this post at BlogBloke.
Posted by Tom Welshonce at 05:01 AM | Comments (0)
"Name's Larry--I work over near Union Station--just hate the echo in this one, don't you?"
Sen. Craig breaks bad. Here from AP, and here from the Washington Post. And Roll Call, dang!
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:55 AM | Comments (0)
August 27, 2007
John Warner finally gets his mojo working.
He was elected to the Senate from Virginia as an "R" when I worked on Capitol Hill, just before I entered private practice. To me, he was that earnest ex-Secretary of the Navy (under Richard Nixon) who was hardworking, ambitious, nice, smooth and at turns almost too "senatorial". But John Warner was interesting, with something genuine and good under all that polish, and you wondered about him. He had had a few breaks. He had his own bucks, came to the Senate after
the Republican primary winner died in a plane accident, and was married (bonus!) to Elizabeth Taylor, who was a natural as a campaigner and charmed Virginia voters. However, on military and foreign affairs, the areas he loved and worked at, Warner over the years (to me) was not as accomplished as John McCain, Dick Lugar or Joe Biden. But over the past few days, we're thinking he's got serious substance and stones after all. AP excerpt:
WASHINGTON (AP)- Sen. John Warner's suggestion that some troops leave Iraq by the end of the year has roiled the White House, with administration officials saying they've asked the influential Republican to clarify that he has not broken politically with President Bush.
But Warner said Friday he stands by his remarks and that he took no issue with how his views have been characterized.
"I'm not going to issue any clarification," Warner, R-Va., said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Posted by JD Hull at 03:20 PM | Comments (0)
Update: Gonzales is out; Clement is acting AG
From MSNBC.com.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 02:22 PM | Comments (0)
Blawg Review #123
Blawg Review #123 is up at Todd Smith's Texas Appellate Law Blog.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 07:03 AM | Comments (0)