Miscellaneous

On my other blog, I write about legal writing. But here, I?ll express this thought:

Typical lawyerspeak: However, I inflicted a gunshot wound on an individual in Reno, for the sole purpose of observing his expiration.

Johnny Cash: But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

The lesson: Shorter words are more powerful than longer ones. And as Martin Luther once said, ?The fewer the words, the better the prayer.?

But this post isn?t about words; it?s about music. Here?s Johnny Cash in an early performance of Folsom Prison Blues, the song that prompted this post.