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June 25, 2016
Dude, where's my ABA?
From a comment I made on line yesterday but I thought important enough to put here. Both the American Bar Association and its journal have been a big disappointment. I was once proud of my membership. My law firm once paid for everyone's. It was a given. And there was the excellent "Litigation" magazine out of Texas. I have kept every issue and still read if. But now there is no sane reason to be an ABA member. The remaining reason for membership are the specialty practice groups, many of which are excellent. Those, however, can be and often are already replicated through the hundreds of smaller, competing and often more personally satisfying and more expert local, state, national, international and trans-border lawyer groups which have sprouted up in English-speaking and non-English-speaking jurisdictions in the last 25 years. Even Martindale-Hubbell remains more useful and relevant to day-to-day practice. My enthusiastic alternative suggestion is join the London-based IBA, which will have its annual meeting this year in the US (DC) in September.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
June 24, 2016
Brexit!
Old Blighty voted yesterday to leave the EU. About 52 to 48% spread with 72% of population voting. Scotland and London voted to stay. Wales and northern England voted to leave. My take? Britain is unforgivably selfish for rejecting (1) Collectivism, (2) Mediocrity and (3) Extreme Militant Gene Pool Dilution.
Posted by JD Hull at 07:33 AM | Comments (0)
June 23, 2016
Before The Great Neutering: Free Speech Word of the Week is "Stewardess" or "Stew"
Before the Great Neutering, flight attendants were women known as "stewardesses" or "stews". Generally they were young, energetic, attractive and in good physical shape. Not big enough to have their own zip codes. They were kind. And smart, too. They cared about your safety. You could take one to dinner without having NPR or Anita Hill buzzing about it the next day. They looked you in the eye when they talked. They never said tacky things in bed.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:51 PM | Comments (0)
June 22, 2016
Anyone want to share a foxhole with Speaker Ryan?
Anyone want to share a foxhole with Speaker Ryan? I just read that Paul Ryan will not raise money for Donald Trump.
I'm not voting for Trump. Even though I like him a lot. But can you believe the Smallness and Non-Leadership on Rep. Paul Ryan? I worked for the Congress twice. Once for a Senate D. Once for a House R. I get Ryan needs to keep the GOP majority in tact. Part of his job. 434 other House members are up for reelection. But this is unusual. A tardy and lukewarm endorsement? Not aiding the presumptive GOP POTUS candidate & standard-bearer to raise $?
Is it unprecedented? I really don't know. Just wow.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:55 PM | Comments (0)
June 19, 2016
Quit Apologizing, Don Trump. Right Now? Profiling is Very OK.
My Facebook post morning accompanying the "breaking" Washington Examiner piece Trump:'I hate the concept of profiling,' but we 'have to do it'.
Happy Father's Day. Hate to intrude on it. But this is important no matter what day it is. No one should be apologizing right now for racial profiling. In my view, we are at war. Now. Time for difficult short-term (hopefully) policies and measures. Racial Profiling is Way-OK. It's not right wing; it's not left wing. It's basic survival. We should be aggressive about doing it. Rights suffer in wartime. We at war. Trump should not be apologizing for racial profiling. HRC either. Time to wake up. What more evidence do you need, Campers?
Posted by JD Hull at 02:10 PM | Comments (0)