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March 12, 2011
Celebrating Women: Reminder that Hull McGuire Hires the Overly-Comely.
(NBC)
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
March 11, 2011
Northeast Japan
15 hours ago: Near Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan (Kyodo News/ Reuters)
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Who says popular election of state judges is "Fishy"?
How rude. Not giving money to sitting judges and would-be judges for their campaigns? Next thing you know, lawyers will no longer be the main event--with clients calling some of the shots. See at Choose Judges on Merit, a site by the "renegade" Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, these two gems: Jukebox Justice and Electing Judges is 'Fishy'. But whoa there, PMC. Without lawyers writing those campaign checks, only honest and highly-qualified jurists will want to have anything to do with state courts. There'd be a merit system that hatches all these boring smart ex-lawyers who as law students made Law Review and Coif and as kids couldn't get elected Junior High Student Council Treasurer if they'd passed out free beer, airplane glue and cheerleaders as party favors. What then, smart guys?
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
March 10, 2011
The UK: Scotland upgrades view of America.
From our Senior Brit Cultural Advisor ("Things Celtic") Duncan Campbell King--whom quite remarkably recently-separated WAC/P writer Holden Oliver hasn't slept with yet--at Mr. Campbell's Wrath of a Sumo King:
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (2)
Do Visit Bat Country: Disturbing. Never Pretty. Instructive.
Or we'll put the leeches on you. Visit Military Underdog first, and Popehat second, each pictured below celebrating Lent. They're your friends, and not like the Others. And welcome to San Diego--known to some as "Death with a View".
Posted by JD Hull at 05:20 PM | Comments (0)
March 09, 2011
Marrakech: Gallic Elegance. Dinner. Legs.
Listen up. If you're an American male and still a real guy--i.e., not a lispy 30-something robo-twit metrosexual but actual U.S. Male guy--do take this two-step test inspired by My Marrakesh: (a) Did your last hostess in America wear bunny slippers, Yves Saint Laurent pumps, black gymmers or Red-Soled Black Shoes with 3.5 Inch Heels topped with Black Leather Leggings? (b) Can you even tell the difference anymore?
By Maryam
By Maryam
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Ash Wednesday: Sarah Silverman Repents.
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March 08, 2011
Fat Tuesday: Ancient, Global, Pagan, Christian, Everyone.
Venice earlier today.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (1)
March 07, 2011
Shrove Tuesday: Let's run this by the gods, shall we?
Neither Mardi Gras nor Lent are commanded in the Bible but come from pre-Christian, pagan customs. What does God think about such pagan customs?
--The United Church of God, in "What is Mardi Gras? Should Christians celebrate Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday)?"
The above neo-peasant nonsense from the "UCG" well represents the kind of brainless discussions we'd could be having daily across America if only Germany had triumphed in World War II. It's a very good reason to encourage your family members and friends to think and feel on their own about matters of spirituality. Note how UCG speculates on how God weighs in on the meaning of Fat Tuesday's undeniably pagan origins. Go to the link above.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 07:36 PM | Comments (0)
Jim McElhaney: Write and Practice to the Ear.
In several of its decades, in my view, Jim McElhaney was the only person or thing that saved the ABA from being 24/7 the shamefully uncreative Robot-Suit Wankfest that it still generally is. The Reason? It followed--never led. The Good News? The best lawyers in America were--and often still are--members. The Irony? Those lawyers were employed by the very same firms that were turning the legal profession into a cynical ruse and dodge--even for to-die-for corporate clients we all sought and still seek to service.
No one had learned to reconcile the two hard facts that law was morphing into both (a) a profitable business and (b) a profession. No one even tried. These two facts still collide for clients. The simple question was begged for two decades or more: how do we now align client interests with our own? "Value" to customers was never discussed. Real "class" was never a goal.
McElhaney, a teacher of trial skills, and an ABA star and stalwart, had loads of both. He was the only reason I stayed a member for 15 years or so. Remember him and others in the great "Litigation" quarterly? I still have them all. But I am not an ABA member now; I am a member of four state bars, one international lawyer group I am very proud of, two non-lawyer groups I am also proud of, and the IBA, which makes more sense for me and mine.
See in January's ABA Journal "Listen to What You Write: Your Ears Will Tell You If You’re Communicating Ideas Effectively. It concludes:
Polish the piece again and again. Keep asking yourself, “If I were reading this for the first time, would I understand everything it says?”
Then read it out loud to as many people as you can make listen—one at a time. Your ear will catch the little mistakes and omissions your eye skipped over. And if anything sounds awkward or strange, even if it looks OK, fix it so it sounds right.
Write to the ear so your readers will hear what you have to say.
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