Today’s op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times leads with the intriguing question: “Why doesn’t James Comey run for President?” [1]
This of course is completely impractical with exactly one week to go until the 2016 election. But there is an important sentiment worthy of exploration here.
Just like this election in which many undecided
A Fulcrum Fact is my designation for the one particular, ambiguous fact for which the argued attached meaning determines the legal contest.
First, recall a fulcrum is that point on a scale where balance is struck between the scale’s two sides. As such, if the weight and dimensions of both sides are equal then the
In a previous post, I indicated why I think Trump is making this bid for president. He want’s Fame! [1]
Think about it. The guy has plenty of money, but he’s getting older.
He has to be thinking to himself that it won’t be long before things like “Trump steak” will have any meaning.
But,
The Republican race only worsened by virtue of Trump’s widening margin after his coral of majorities yesterday in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii. [1] There appears to be potential room for Ted Cruz if Marco Rubio and John Kasich were to fall in line behind him … but they won’t.
Whereas Trump is otherworldly in a
Yesterday, while focusing on religion touched on the topic of space exploration. A year prior to David Bowie’s release Space Oddity in 1969, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was released. It’s story sought to explain that there must be some advanced knowledge which has at critical thresholds – i.e. boundaries – in the
‘May you always be able to look further beyond the horizon than your neighbor. Yet, let it not be so far beyond that you can’t point it out to him.’
That’s the essence of a message which an expat friend of mine in China shared well over a decade ago. However, it wasn’t until more
“Just when you think you’ve seen everything … you haven’t.” Unless my memory is failing that is what favorite sports announcer NBC’s Al Michaels [1] said about Russell Wilson’s turn of a botched snap/catch – which under most circumstances would have been a 20 yard set-back – into a first down conversion pass to Tyler
The 1952 movie titled A Quiet Man stars John Wayne. In this – the pub scene – John Wayne’s character who has returned from America to Ireland to reclaim his family farm is analyzed by moving though the five conflict-handling modes identfied by Thomas-Kilmann.
These modes are designed on a two-dimensional scale in which, Thomas-Kilmann
NW Lawyer’s issue this month has an article titled: With Kings and Counselors, Bartleby the Doc Reviewer. In it Garrett Oppenheim compares the modern day life of a document reviewer to Herman Melville’s 1853 tale “Bartleby the Scrivener”. [1]
To clarify for non-attorneys, a doc reviewer is a lawyer who helps to determine which documents
