December 11, 2004
on the highwire
crow with a mouthful
buzzed by a sparrow
Christmas eve-
the row of cut trees
no one took home
credits: “on the highwire” – “Summerday, Puget Sound,” a haiku sequence
“Christmas eve” – Modern Haiku XXIX:2 (Summer 1998)
waiting room –
the masked man
brings his own magazine
[Dec. 11, 2004]
one-breath pundit
Do Lawyers Slow Income Growth? First we mentioned Prof. Magee’s estimate of lost 
to a recent study on lawyers per capita per state, described in an article at Expansion-
Management.com. Despite his awesome concession, I’m not sure Walter’s suggestion
of a better yardstick would work very well, either:
“Where you have a lot of business centers, generally you will have a lot of
attorneys, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are bad for the economy,”
and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Olson said he has a better yardstick.
“If you could measure how many attorneys are out there advertising for injury cases,
that would be a much better indicator for how high the expected hassle value is of
doing business in a given state,” he pointed out.
take money to speak on behalf of some interest group without disclosing the conflict of interest
thereby created. “
We also agree with the NYT editorial staff: Harry Reid shouldn’t be suggesting
Antonin Scalia for Chief Justice, merely because Scalia’s “one smart guy.”
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