Thursday, September 15, 2016

What are Lawyers Thinking?


FutureLawyer has the poster revealing their unspoken thoughts.

Press Bias

Cultural Offering notes the report on America's fallen trust in the media. 

As an old dog, I recall Edith Efron's The News Twisters and the utter failure of those who then sought to refute it. 

Since then, the bias has gotten worse.

Film Break


The trailers for:

The Hammock Papers


Every time I visit The Hammock Papers, I regret not having visited more often and for longer periods of time.

It is a beautiful blog.

Highly Recommended

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Quote of the Day

Eisenhower ... was an institutional innovator. He created the first White House chief of staff, the first congressional relations office, and the first presidential assistant for national security affairs, a post that has come to be called the national security adviser. The crown jewel of Eisenhower's advisory system was the institutional machinery associated with the weekly meetings of the National Security Council. 

- Fred I. Greenstein in The Presidential Difference

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Washington's Wake-Up Call


Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels on the issue that is going to clobber us if it continues to be unaddressed.

It is an easy bet that over the past year Americans have heard more about transgender restrooms than they have about the national debt.

Alan Rickman Moment

Stay Home, Sickie

Althouse and others explore the American reluctance to take sick leave.

One of my pet peeves is when people are clearly ill with a contagious illness and yet are still at work.

For an extreme (and odd) case, read the story of Typhoid Mary.

"Donald Westlake and Me"

My young mind needed a break in the worst way, and I found it in spades with Westlake's seemingly endless collection of ne'er-do-wells trying to beat life just around the edges and finding even that low-bar goal much tougher than anyone with even a hint of luck could expect.

Read the rest of Douglas MacKinnon's essay in The Weekly Standard.