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January 01, 2011
Janus
Janus, two-headed Roman god of doors and beginnings.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:07 AM | Comments (0)
December 30, 2010
Vote for The Legal Satyricon in the ABA Blawg 100--or we'll pull the trigger.
Rags the Dog this morning in Salzburg, Austria.
You've only a few hours left. Same for Rags. So Vote Here Now.
Yeah, you know us--and we'll do it. In previous posts, we've written about Marc Randazza and his The Legal Satyricon because we admire his Brains, Moxie, Lawyerness and his flat-out king-hell expert's-refined respect for the First Amendment. We are also a little afraid of Marc--for reasons we can't go into right now, and are only marginally related to the fact that we've met with him in San Diego several times, know him personally pretty well and suspect he's at least part Italian--and do not wish to incur his ire. We strive, always, to please him. We do hedge our bets.
But Rags the Dog is way more afraid; he knows he'll go down and decorate a nice Austrian hotel room if there's not a big win today for LS in the ABA Blawg 100 category for IMHO. Voting ends close-of-business today (for us Dorks that's 6:00 ET). Holden Oliver, who cares little for canine life, has Rags right now in an undisclosed Salzburg inn in the old part of the city up against that big-ass cliff near St. Peter's cemetery. Once given an order, Holden cannot be expected to alter his course. For Rags, please vote now.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:29 PM | Comments (0)
Note to "Publius": In 2011, resolve to grow a pair and use your real name on the Internet.
This blog's policy is no-name no-publish. We've written about it a lot. Because, among other things, we need to know exactly how to address that summons or subpoena, you know?
Don't be a Mr. Chicken. Let's reserve Net anonymity for people who need and deserve it.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:08 AM | Comments (0)
December 28, 2010
New American Normal: It's about fewer jobs here.
Other players in the new global markets are catching up fast. Yanks can and should get used to it--and adapt like the resilient commercial animals we are. See "Many U.S. Companies Are Hiring....Overseas" by the AP's Pallavi Gogoi. Excerpt:
Other economists, like Columbia University's Sachs, say multinational corporations have no choice, especially now that the quality of the global work force has improved. Sachs points out that the U.S. is falling in most global rankings for higher education while others are rising.
"We are not fulfilling the educational needs of our young people," says Sachs. "In a globalized world, there are serious consequences to that."
Posted by JD Hull at 11:06 PM | Comments (1)