Yearly Archives: 2009

Andrew Brown compares personalized search results from Google with everybody’s favorite P.G. Wodehouse characters: The more perfectly Google plays the role of a valet, a butler, an unshockable servant who knows our own desires better than we do, the less … Continue reading →

A few nights ago, I attended a social event that, unlike a lot of my life, was not crawling with other lawyers. So I had the opportunity to experience the wonderful rainbow of popular responses to lawyers. Non-lawyers—my civil procedure … Continue reading →

Professor Myers has little use for Thanksgiving Day: This whole notion that one should have vague and aimless feelings of gratitude for the nature of one’s existence is just too weird, and the bow-your-head-at-the-table and radiate-blessings-at-the-cosmos tradition is pointless and … Continue reading →

Gregory Benford observes in his book Deep Time: It is commonplace to note that the years flicker by faster as we age. Certainly a new year can have less impact when we have many more stacked behind us. I suspect … Continue reading →

John Grisham, with a new book of short stories out, is talking about what it was like to practice law back when he actually did: As a small-town lawyer, you don’t meet people who are living happy, productive lives with no … Continue reading →

Over at Law.com, they’ve posted an article from The Connecticut Law Tribune about solo and small firm attorneys that are extending their practice into unfamiliar areas to keep their income going. You might find them in line at the court clerk’s … Continue reading →

Writes Neal Gabler: The hoariest and most oft-repeated cliche in American politics may be that America is the greatest country in the world. Every politician, Democrat and Republican, seems duty bound to pander to this idea of American exceptionalism, and … Continue reading →

Mary and I were married yesterday morning, October 10, 2009, at The Downtown Club in Fresno. We were registered at Williams-Sonoma and Vonda’s Gifts. The ladies at Vonda’s were especially helpful, both to us and to all of our friends … Continue reading →

Hell hath no fury like a reproachful footnote from an appellate court: Thomas‟s briefing on appeal, in particular, his reply brief, is full of the vitriol that is anathema to civil and professional conduct essential to the resolution of family … Continue reading →

After leaping into an online forum yesterday and unwittingly short-circuiting  someone else’s Socratic dialogue, I mentioned in the aftermath on Twitter that law school soured me on the Socratic method. Mark, the unfortunate victim of my zeal, said he would be … Continue reading →