Back to a book from an earlier post, which you can refer to in a moment.
This post is more or less directed to my earlier self, my law school student self, and current law students, many of whom sometimes wonder what it is they’re doing there. We’re working hard to become lawyers. But we don’t really know what being a lawyer means. I didn’t [...]
Archive for the ‘snippet of the moment’ Category
What A Good Lawyer Does
August 23, 2008
That Classic Little Handbook
August 18, 2008
The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White, that classic little handbook I’ve been picking away at over the last seven months or so. It sits on my desk, next to my computer, and I read it from time to time, reading about writing. Today’s quote goes like this:
The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is an [...]
The New Promulgation
July 13, 2008
Earlier on Twitter I wrote that Lawrence Lessig was the coolest lawyer / code man. I am currently reading his Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Published in 1999, the book is somewhat dated (especially since we’re talking about the Web here), but I still think Code is hip.
Legislatures promulgate rules. These rules become the [...]
Grainy McCain
June 29, 2008
My friends!
Ever notice how television insists on portraying Senator McCain as some kind of ghost in the screen? As if suddenly everything went from digital to analog again; the image just isn’t quite as clear. The effect makes you think that the footage is from some bygone era, irrelevant and old. This is, however, conjecture. [...]
Wax Moon Garden
June 23, 2008
This first snippet is a relevant one for a blog that is, ostensibly, on words. From the pen of Ray Bradbury in his 1953 book Fahrenheit 451:
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, [...]
