Legal Commentary

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Posted on April 18, 2008
This guy sounds like the punch line to a Dennis Miller joke: "Hey, moron! Charles Darwin says 'Hello'." Lance Coleman of Racine, Wis., tried to steal $47,000 worth of Dell equipment by impersonating Robert Greenberg, CEO of the shoe company...

Wake Up! It's Time To Die (To Yourself)

Posted on April 18, 2008
While many of us are using the occasion of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States as an opportunity to pound the round peg that is the Pope into the square hole that is our personal agenda,...

Sunlight and Shadows

Posted on April 17, 2008
From The Anchoress: If we look at ourselves of microcosms of dark and light - little versions of this big battle - we see it within ourselves. Where there is holiness, evil is always right there, on the periphery, pushing,...

Power To The People!

Posted on April 14, 2008
The winner of the Hiett Aaward, historian David Greenberg, had some interesting things to say recently about the much-maligned "Main Stream Media" and the self-loving bloggers who denigrate them. He was in Dallas last week to accept the award, and...

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How Low Can You Go?

Posted on April 09, 2008
**WARNING: A LINKED STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE, ESPECIALLY THOSE CURRENTLY RESIDING IN A MONESTARY. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK** A reader sent me a link to this story before Easter, but it seemed sacrilegious to post...

Pour Tu

Posted on April 08, 2008
The last time I tried to post these lyrics as a poem to my wife, a JAG officer commented that the post was "so gay." Maybe I can get away with it four years later and another world away. Even...

Once Every 20 Years Is Perfect

Posted on April 08, 2008

Stream of Consciousness Redux

Posted on April 07, 2008
Strange how the mind works. Well, strange how MY mind works. Reading about Charlton Heston's death today made me think of Rod Serling. Eh? you might exclaim (especially if you're one of the McKenzie Brothers). I'll try to explain. My...

Stream of Consciousness Redux

Posted on April 06, 2008
Strange how the mind works. Well, strange how MY mind works. Reading about Charlton Heston's death today made me think of Rod Serling. Eh? you might exclaim (especially if you're one of the McKenzie Brothers). I'll try to explain. My...

Bound To Agape

Posted on April 01, 2008
Heaven has no other prayer niche but love. Without love the world is worthless. Become the slave to love, this is the course. This is the path for all pious people. ---Nezami-Ganjavi Slave To Love, Brian Ferry

Swimming Upstream

Posted on April 01, 2008
From Thomas Merton's essay "Love and Solitude," contained in the collection entitled "Love and Living": The power of genuine love is so deep and so strong that it cannot be deflected from its true aim even by the silliest of...

Swimming Upstream

Posted on April 01, 2008
From Thomas Merton's essay "Love and Solitude," contained in the collection entitled "Love and Living": The power of genuine love is so deep and so strong that it cannot be deflected from its true aim even by the silliest of...

The Men We Admire

Posted on March 27, 2008
An excellent performance in an excellent movie, HUD, adapted from an excellent novel, Horseman, Pass By. Melvyn Douglas won an academy award for his portrayal of an old West Texas rancher facing a hard end to a hard life with...

The Men We Admire

Posted on March 27, 2008
An excellent performance in an excellent movie, HUD, adapted from an excellent novel, Horseman, Pass By. Melvyn Douglas won an academy award for his portrayal of an old West Texas rancher facing a hard end to a hard life with...

Conflict Resolution, Texas Style

Posted on March 23, 2008
From the front page of Easter Sunday's The Dallas Morning News: Assaults ? which range from threats to physical altercations ? by students on Dallas Independent School District employees and volunteers have more than doubled in the last five years,...

Moral Hazards

Posted on March 22, 2008
A colleague and friend wrote to me recently about what I thought of this article in last Sunday's The New York Times by Gretchen Morgenson, that starts off with a typical focus for The Grey Lady: the venality of big...

Scattershooting

Posted on March 17, 2008
I've been out of pocket, attending a funeral in another state last week, besieged by paying work (I'm not complaining), and catching my wife's cold (can't keep my hands off her, sorry). The time away gives a bit of perspective...

Serendipity

Posted on March 06, 2008
Today I'm struggling with a case of doubt. "Doubt attacks" happen at the damndest times. Tonight, I sit down to read The New Testament, and I do the "rapid thumb through," where you just let the pages rip through your...

Revelation

Posted on March 01, 2008
Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value, and identity. But this revelation remains impossible as long as we are the prisoner of our own egoism. I cannot find myself in myself, but only in another. My true meaning and worth are shown to me not in my estimate of myself, but in the eyes of the one who loves me; and that one must love me as I am, with my faults and limitations, revealing to me the truth that these faults and limitations cannot destroy my worth in their eyes; and that I am therefore valuable as a person, in spite of my shortcomings, in spite of the imperfections of my exterior ?package...

Dirty Harry Tells Prez: "Make My Day!"

Posted on February 28, 2008
Those of us who follow the banking business, as well as those of us who simply like to watch a train wreck in process, expected a Senate vote on Tuesday of this week on Little Dickie Durban's Bankruptcy Reform-of-the-Reform Bill, that would allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite residential mortgage loans...

On the Road Of Life

Posted on February 26, 2008
I've been out of commission for the past week, blogging-wise. My wife and I had to travel unexpectedly to Kansas for five days to care for my mother-in-law, who took a bad fall and suffered a compression fracture of a vertebrae. That's serious business for a 90 year-old woman...

No Mas Bi-Lingualism

Posted on February 17, 2008
My friend and fellow blogger (and fellow parishioner) Kyle Cupp has an interesting and thoughtful post about the coming of a bi-lingual society in the U.S., and how we ought to embrace the coming "Spanglish" transformation. I respectfully disagree...

Semper Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum

Posted on February 15, 2008
The money quote of the day, from a commenter at Blame Bush: It takes a village to raise a child, but it only takes a few Marines to raze that village.

How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count The Ways

Posted on February 13, 2008
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I'd no more stand between Israel and its enemies then I'd stand between an out-of-control eighteen-wheeler and a brick wall. Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah mastermind behind the kidnapping of Westerners in Beirut and many big terror attacks around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, was killed late last night in a car bomb explosion in Damascus...

C'Mon, Rise Up!

Posted on February 09, 2008
Ring out a slowly dying cause,And ancient forms of party strife;Ring in the nobler modes of life,With sweeter manners, purer laws.--Alfred Tennyson, Ring Out, Wild BellsThere was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up...

Eyeballs

Posted on February 07, 2008
To the readers of Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish who've stumbled over this puny blog from Sullivan's link last night to a post I did on Thomas Merton two years ago: Welcome. There's little "dish" here, much less any daily offering, but whether you find another post that you especially like or hate, rest assured that you have spiked my site traffic up over 10 times its usual daily average...

The Will To Happiness

Posted on February 03, 2008
The Anchoress recently asked her readers to weigh in on the question "What's wrong with the world." She quoted Chesterton's famous letter-to-the-editor answer: "I am." Her question might lead a reader to suppose that Chesterton was both a pessimist and an egotist...

Moral Bankruptcy Results In Actual Bankruptcy

Posted on January 31, 2008
As a lawyer, I'm used to people looking for loopholes and driving Mack trucks through them. Yet, this story enraged me. I trust that you'll be equally aghast at the selfishness of this little twerp.

Paradise Lost

Posted on January 31, 2008
You've read the reports today that a top al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan was killed by a U.S. missile strike in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. Al-Qaeda announced it on a web site, along with the usual affirmation that he died Allah's martyr and will be welcomed into paradise...

Quick Hits

Posted on January 29, 2008
If you haven't already read them, check out these two posts: Dr. Bob does another excellent job in his latest installment of his ongoing series on grace in Christianity, Getting to Grace. His warning about the perils and rewards of the journey strike a chord: But be forewarned: the journey over these jagged crags is a terrifying one ? but it is the only way out of the prison...

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