Likelihood of Success 17 Mar 2010 | 01:35 pm

Success is hard to define.  We think we know it when we see it.  But we seldom do.  In fact, more often than not we actually misidentify things such as material abundance, popularity or power as “succ...

Social networking for lawyers thingy 10 Mar 2010 | 03:32 pm

Is that a problem? 4 Mar 2010 | 06:02 pm

I don’t know much about the “likelihood of success on the merits” part, but I am impressed by the way another traditional element of the injunction question comes out–a little something we call “weigh...

Spamism 2 Mar 2010 | 06:49 pm

Is that the name of the language of comment spam, spoken in some weird world? Check this out, plucked out of the comments waiting for approval on my other blog: I scanned sites on like topic, but nev...

Bottoms up 1 Mar 2010 | 05:06 am

Today is the Jewish holiday of Purim. (Unlike the biblically-based Jewish holidays, this is one, like Chanuka, on which I’m allowed to blog!) As well explained in the Book of Esther, it’s the holiday...

Guide to haters 27 Feb 2010 | 10:35 am

About a month ago I published a lengthy discourse, doomed to obscurity, in which in my somewhat pedantic way I tried to tutor my Dean’s World buddy, the often open-minded Aziz Poonawala, on what he sh...

One whale of a disconnect 26 Feb 2010 | 03:02 pm

I’m not someone who wants to see a killer whale killed just because it killed someone.  It’s what killer whales do, and of course Dawn Brancheau, the Seaworld trainer who was killed by an off-kilter o...

CPAC thoughts 26 Feb 2010 | 07:17 am

Not mine, mind you.  I send John Hawkins down to round everything up for me.  If I were to attend in person, the whole mystery persona would be shot!  Look what happens to Ron Paul, for example, when ...

Well, at least we know the stimulus worked! 19 Feb 2010 | 02:50 am

My friend Aziz Poonawalla, via Insty who, interestingly, links to the story guilelessly (I can’t buy a link these days–should I get a turban?), lays it right out: Today is the one-year anniversary of...

Candy canes, unicorns could not be reached for comment 17 Feb 2010 | 02:08 am

New York Times: U.S. Encounters Limits of Iran Engagement Policy Well, let’s be sure and learn all this stuff from scratch.  Each time.