sixty floors
above the sidewalk
carpenter ants
nude beach
the occasional beep
of a metal detector
“red hots!”
for an instant i’m ten
and
father’s still alive
“sixty floors” Simply Haiku (Dec. 2003)
[May 3, 2005]
potluck
“YYS” Yesterday, in a post positing that the Jennifer Wilbanks situation may be less like
the “runaway bride” and more like Sleeping With the Enemy. Conglomerate‘s co-editor,
Marquette Law Prof. Christine Hurt confided: “I’ve come to believe that crazy women
are made, not born.” Similarly, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, George Carlin
says that “men are stupid and women are crazy, but women are crazy because men are stupid.”
I agree with Carlin and Hurt on the general principle. However, Ms. Wilbanks almost certainly
proves Carlin’s corollary that nature-genes- hormones can also play an important role in female
insanity. Prof. Hurt concludes:
“Maybe we should create a bride protection program, similar to
witness protection.”
Mandatory psychiatric treatment (and maybe a lie detector test) should be part of any
such program.
Yesterday, Hurt’s co-blawger, Wisc. Law Prof. Gordon Smith,
hosted Blawg Review #4 at the Law & Entrepeneurship Blog. As
grateful as I am that Gordon linked to my Not Lawyers Day post,
I must disclose that he originally referred to Abnu as a former
“alter boy” — a condition that may indeed relate to Abnu’s post
on “benefit of clergy.” (While Martin Grace was taking a break from
posting, your Editor served as proofreader for yet another professor.)
“tinyredcheck” Add my name to the list of commentators across the political spectrum– including
college administrations must be getting severe hernias and slipped discs from bending
over backwards to appear politically correct. Far too often , they appear to (1) have no
common sense; (2) have no sense of humor; and (3) have no idea how discriminatory
and arbitrary their positions appear out here in the real world. The latest example is the
flap in R.I. at Roger Williams University over the dueling gender Monologues. Are there
any grownups on campus these days? (NRO, “V-Day Meets P-Day on Campus,” May 2,
2005)
credit division, and sent cardholders notices promising “More great benefits.”
Well, the first batch of those benefits were disclosed this week in a “Notice of Change
of Terms.” The changes include (1) an increase in the annual interest rate from 11.58%
to 17.33%; (2) a new late payment fee ($39 for account balances over $50 — even for
being one day late); and (3) higher minimum due requirements each month. It has been
an eye-opener, over the past few years, discovering how impossible it is to get decent
credit card terms (like I had in my pre-CFS, working days) since exiting the middle class.
pit bull battles weren’t enough, going after ice cream cones, and the phrase “expect more from
your law firm,” leaves them with more egg on their faces. See Legal Underground and Gerry
Riskin’s Amazing Firms. I agree with Gerry that:
“[A] firm that publicly commits to serving its clients better and repeatedly
communicates that message internally to its own staff will raise its own
standards of service considerably and thus create competitive advantage.”
– ’round here, ev’ry week is “icecreamweek”
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