Thursday, March 31, 2011

We're number 51, and I am NOT happy about it.

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See here .
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Best thing about the Georgia Aquarium.

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Whale sharks .

Thanks, SBLI & Georgia State University College of Law!

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Having finished this week's visit to Georgia State's law school , courtesy of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute , I just wan...

A tale of two bank experiences in today's New York Times

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How do I know when the weekend has truly arrived?  For years, the weekend arrived at the moment that I sat down to a leisurely breakfast whi...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Wonderful op-ed by Leonard Pitts about gay marriage and human rights.

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See here .  Couldn't have said it better myself.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Another interesting op-ed from Jon Macey.

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Jon Macey's one of my go-to reads whenever he publishes op-eds, and this one (from this week's WSJ ) is no exception (see here ).
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A salute to Pam Burns.

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Because I have Google alerts about a lot of things, including one on the late John O'Quinn, I learned this week that John's exceptio...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Greetings from a non-mediocre institution.

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It's no secret that Nevada's budget is in horrible shape, and that problem is not likely to improve in the near future.  We are livi...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Putting the news in perspective.

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My hubby passed this along to me, and I'm passing it along to you. This message is sent with the deepest respect.  This just made perfe...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Two reasons to think before acting.

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Loved Luke Johnson's piece in today's Financial Times about "How to Spot an Impending Calamity" ( here ).  Although high...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

A tale of two abuses.

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OK, look at Joe Nocera's column in yesterday's New York Times ( here ) ( " Biggest Fish Face Little Risk of Being Caught...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

The GWU law students were exceptionally funny this year.

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Warning:  adult language.  But see here .  And a hat tip to one of our students, Jason Lather, for letting me know about it.

And some funny stuff from my buddy Rod Fong....

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Rod sent me these sayings:* To write with a broken pencil is pointless. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. A thief ...

Shout-out to the Faculty Lounge blog.

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I always like reading that blog , and today's gave me an honest-to-goodness spit-take .  I love Malcolm Gladwell's books , and we we...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

For you corporate law students out there....

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My buddy, Professor Walter Effross , has come up with a list called Suggestions for Law Students: 101 Assets, Activities, and Approaches for...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Some rules to live by, forwarded to me by Dad.

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Here's what my dad forwarded to me recently.  I loved them. 16 Rules To Live By By Bob Parsons, Founder & CEO of GoDaddy.com ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Heroes don't like to be called "whistle-blowers."

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In today's New York Times Gretchen Morgenson column, she describes the travails and eventually victory of former Countrywide exec Mich...

From my buddy George Connelly:

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A list of paraprosdokians, from my friend George: A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase ...

A nice salute to Judge Steen, on his retirement.

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See here .  I didn't know Charlie Fielder (the second part of the post), but it's clear that he made many lives better. Judge Stee...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Tim Canova's point about the budget crisis.

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My buddy Tim Canova writes very interesting things, and here's his latest op-ed on the national budget crisis ( here ).