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August 7, 2004

it’s just a game, grasshopper

Filed under: pre-06-2006 — David Giacalone @ 11:19 am

A gray dawn —

last night’s poker cards

facedown on the table

Cool breeze scented with mint —

a grasshopper poised

in the twilit stillness

by Rebecca Lilly, from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-

Language Haiku (Jim Kacian, Dee Evetts, eds., Red Moon Press, 2001)

credits: “a gray dawn” from Modern Haiku XXXII: 1; “cool breeze” from Modern Haiku XXXI:1

by dagosan:

flawless hosta

between finger and thumb —

making sure it’s real

                                             [Aug. 7, 2004]

one-breath pundit

Ernest Miller and Jeff Jarvis skewer the latest silliness over Fox’s newscoverage and slogan: Dems in Congress insist news must be impartial. Neither history nor the public agree. (see ‘>Pew/pbs; cf. our frivolous & bollixed )
“Lawyer crisis may set indigent defendants free” (Boston Herald, 08-07-04)
- why doesn’t the press raise the unlawful boycott issue or question the weak “overhead” argument?
I concur with Prof. Bainbridge: the swift boaters are silly to attack Kerry.
What was Kerry doing 20 years ago? What was George W. Bush doing?

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workman not working

Filed under: pre-06-2006 — David Giacalone @ 1:23 am

Tom Workman, President of the Massachusetts Association of Court-Appointed Attorneys (MACAA), sent an e-mail yesterday evening, responding to my position that the boycott by Bar Advocates is unlawful and unethical. Tom states that the “>Lavallee decision has changed the landscape, and may instead make it unethical for indigent defense counsel to take cases. Click here to see his message and the response I posted tonight at TalkLeft.

p.s. See the Decision and Order in the FTC’s Clark County Assigned Counsel case for a good outline of the kinds of activity that are and are not permitted when seeking higher fees. The relevant provisions are available at this weblog by clicking Assigned Counsel Don’t’s & Do’s

napper gray

from Issa:

the dragonfly, too
works late…
night fishing

[translator David G. Lanoue, from his Issa website]

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