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April 21, 2012
Have a job? It doesn't mean you're smart, Jack. Not even a little smart.
It may mean you're conformist, unimaginative, risk-averse, white or lucky enough not to live and work in El Centro, California, a vibrant, hot, tough and hard-working large U.S. farming border town I've spent lots of time in since 1996. See at MSNBC "Cities where unemployment is double the national rate".
AP Photo. El Centro has 26.7% unemployment
Posted by JD Hull at 07:47 PM | Comments (0)
April 18, 2012
Poetry Month, Year, Age, Whatever: Seamus Heaney's Toome.
At Toomebridge
Where the flat water
Came pouring over the weir out of Lough Neagh
As if it had reached an edge of the flat earth
And fallen shining to the continuous
Present of the Bann.Where the checkpoint used to be.
Where the rebel boy was hanged in '98.
Where negative ions in the open air
Are poetry to me. As once before
The slime and silver of the fattened eel.--first poem in Electric Light (2001)
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April 17, 2012
Greater China: More than a feeling. Try not to screw up, okay?,
Do see "The Legal Faults With Faulty China Translations" at China Law Blog.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:36 PM | Comments (0)
Tripoli or The Hague: Can Muammar Gaddafi’s son get a fair trial in Libya?
Our take: The International Criminal Court in The Hague makes more sense. At South Africa-based IOL News, see "Al-Islam Faces Justice on Libyan Soil". It begins:
Muammar Gaddafi’s son and former heir Saif al-Islam will be put on trial inside Libya and there will be a verdict before the middle of June, a Libyan official said on Monday.
The decision comes despite appeals by rights groups to Libyan authorities to hand him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial, amid fears that he may not get a fair trial in Libya.
A trial in the capital Tripoli would, however, mark a small step forward for the central government, which has been struggling to unify the country under its authority since Muammar Gaddafi’s capture and killing last year.
Reuters: Saif al-Islam.
Posted by JD Hull at 04:27 PM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2012
At China Law Blog: China IP Rights. Deja Vu "All Over Again".
See "China IP Protection. Deja Vu All Over Again" at Dan Harris's China Law Blog. Enduring, honest, excellent and useful.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Poetry Month, Millenium, Age, Whatever: Michael Drayton & Ray Davies Get Wild for Old Blighty.
O famous Kent
What country hath this isle
That can compare with thee?--Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Canada to India. Australia to Cornwall. Singapore to Hong Kong.
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April 15, 2012
We thought "Unbundling" applied to lawyers was a Hull McGuire term/concept for 15 freaking years but...
...it's good it's out there. It's a team effort, anyway. Ah, hubris. Ego. Pride. And the license for unbridled grandiosity that attends all Anglos, cads, trial lawyers, dreamers, workaholics, the part-Irish and recovering addicts. (Hey, it was. Doing/saying it mixed with brick/mortar context for over 15 years.) But see "Launch of Unbundling Book at ABA Techshow", via our friend and ADR guru Don Philbin. We are so angry about this. May need to call Scott Greenfield or Bennet Kelley for a little IP Justice.
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