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Me Morality: Why Are Law Firms and Corporations Not Cutting Salaries by 25% or more Across the Board and Saving ALL Jobs Rather than Firing People?

Posted on February 12, 2009
We remain continuously mystified about what appears to us to be the boundless greed of our fellow human beings. It is in our opinion this endless selfishness which is now driving the recession. In a kind of mad panic, people and organizations are busy looking after their OWN skin only, rather than taking the course of action which everyone should be taking - and ultimately must take - to get the

Lessig Blog Online Again

Posted on February 12, 2009
Lessig Blog was not accessible for a while but is online again.

The Queen of England has a New Website as the British Monarchy rolls out its Newest Face to the World

Posted on February 12, 2009
It is high time that the media stop posting its sensationalistic doom and gloom, which only serves to depress private and public sectors, thus making the recession much worse than it would otherwise be. If people just went on living normally things would be much better...

Economic Recovery and the Lessons of History : Joseph's Bailout in Egypt in the Bible : Parshat Vayigash

Posted on February 11, 2009
Ups and downs in the economy are a matter of history generally. One example that comes to mind here is the Bible - storing up in fat years for lean years, as Joseph did in ancient Egypt, which was not sufficient, as famine still swept the land and everyone came to Joseph for deliverance...

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Evidence and the History of Western Civilization and Christianity : Moses and Exodus and the Kings of Egypt and Judah : Errors in Current Chronology

Posted on February 11, 2009
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The LawPundit Recession Survey : Who is Responsible for the Recession? Who will Turn it Around? What Needs to be Done for Economic Recovery?

Posted on February 10, 2009
Want to voice your opinion about the state of the economy? Here is your chance. Take this survey of only three questions. MULTIPLE ANSWERS are permitted: you can pick more than one answer for each question. (Please note that the other quizzes listed at "More" on this Widget - should they appear - are NOT selections by LawPundit but are inserted by Quibblo...

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Having Trouble Being Supreme : Post Office Refuses UK Parliament Square Address : Website Address Unsuitable

Posted on February 09, 2009
There are several new controversies about the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (established by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and detailed here) which "will take over the Law Lords' judicial functions in the House of Lords and some functions in the Judicial committee of the Privy Council...

Sally Hartley of Lincolnshire in England sings "Make you feel my love" and "All that Jazz" : A Singer at Events, Functions and Weddings in the UK

Posted on February 08, 2009
Looking for a singer with a nice voice to sing at an event, function or wedding in the UK? In the following two videos Sally Hartley sings "Make you feel my love" and "All that Jazz". She is based in Lincolnshire, England. For enquiries or booking info contact sallyhartley@dsl...

New York Times on Tiger Woods includes LawPundit Posting on Woods at the Obama Inauguration in its Headlines on the Web : plus Why Tiger wins Majors

Posted on February 08, 2009
Today's February 8, 2009 edition of the New York Times in Times Topics features an article on Tiger Woods and includes a LawPundit posting on Tiger Woods at the Inauguration of new U.S. President Barack Obama in that NYT page's Headlines on the Web. As written there: "Blogrunner automatically monitors news articles and blog posts and tracks news events as they develop across the Web...

Evidence and the History of Writing : The Phaistos Disc and Old Elamite Scripts

Posted on February 08, 2009
This is the power point presentation that I gave on 31 October 2008 at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PHAISTOS DISK on the 100th anniversary of its discovery in 1908 by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier. Conference location: Society of Antiquaries, London, Burlington House, Piccadilly...

Bad Rap for Failout Bankers at Bank Lawyer's Blog : The Bailout Rap as A Stockbroker's Rapumentary

Posted on February 06, 2009
The younger generations - especially rap fans - are going to love the YouTube video below by stockbroker performer, Gregg Somerville, as produced by Christopher Conti Video, taken by Mowgli Frere Video, music by Chris Conti. We ourselves tend toward electronic dance music of the type you find at the Love Parade, currently the world's biggest annual music festival, but we found this rap

In Case of Economic Emergency : Push the Button

Posted on February 06, 2009
One of the most interesting blogs online is Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog. He has a cheer-up posting at When The Economy Has You Down, which cites to the source of the emergency button below, which can be bought as a product at Archie McPhee...

To a Visitor from Beijing China : Our Nebra Sky Disk .pdf Link has been Updated

Posted on February 05, 2009
A visitor from Beijing China today tried to access my Nebra Sky Disk article at the respective .pdf file at The Sky Disk of Nebra : A Question of Evidence but the link was outdated. We have updated that link at that LawPundit posting and also inform that reader - identity otherwise unknown to us of course - that the correct link is now the link Nebra Sky Disk ...

Guzzle or Unguzzle? Winding Road Magazine and NextAutos.com : The Finest Cars and Motors Past Present Future : Recession or RaceSession?

Posted on February 05, 2009
Guzzle or Unguzzle? That is the question. The future is definitely Unguzzle, so enjoy the Guzzlers while they last. President Obama has directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider auto emission policies. It is high time that America cut back its gluttonous use of natural resources - for the sake of the environment and for the sake of the future...

Tiger Woods at the Inauguration of new U.S. President Barack Obama

Posted on February 04, 2009
You can subscribe to the Tiger Woods Newsletter at his website. Being a golfer myself, I do. Tiger's most recent posting contains the following notable paragraph: "President Obama recently asked me to speak at the inauguration opening ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D...

President Obama on Economic Recovery : Plus a Tip on Using the Search Function in YouTube

Posted on February 04, 2009
Take a look at this short video (2 minutes) of President Obama on economic recovery: P.S. If you are not accustomed to using YouTube, run your mouse across the top of the video box and a YouTube search box will drop down, where you can look for other videos on political, legal, economic or other topics of interest...

The Frequent Traveler Freddie Awards : Vote for Your Favorite Airline and Hotel Programs

Posted on January 29, 2009
Are you a frequent traveler? Have you voted yet for your favorite airline and hotel programs in the frequent traveler Freddie Awards which now are in their 21st edition? Do so now, as voting started January 15 and ends February 28, 2009. The award ceremony takes place in Fort Lauderdale on April 23, 2009...

LinkedIn Online Networking Platform for Professionals Growing Fast and Becoming a Business Relationship Powerhouse

Posted on January 29, 2009
We first posted at LawPundit about the advantages of LinkedIn two years ago. LinkedIn is a serious networking platform (serving also as a kind of high level visiting card) for professionals. LinkedIn growth in 2008 outpaced Facebook and MySpace and their membership is definitely leaping forward in the current economic climate as people become even more aware than previously of how important

Startup Advice from Dick Costolo, Co-Founder of FeedBurner : Problems with FeedBurner at Google in Migrating and Merging the Technology

Posted on January 29, 2009
Dick Costolo, co-founder and then CEO of FeedBruner, which was acquired by Google for an estimated $100 million in 2007, closed his Burning Door blog in 2008 with some interesting advice for startups in his posting Ask the Wizard. We had cause to look at his posting again since Google in 2009 is now in the process of migrating and merging FeedBurner feeds into the general Google technology...

The German-American Connection as an Important Factor to the Solution of Key Problems in Modern World Affairs : Europe, Economy, Iran, Afghanistan

Posted on January 27, 2009
Roger Cohen has a perspicacious January 25, 2009 article at the New York Times on Remembering Germany, in which he first emphasizes the miracle of German reconstruction after World War II: "That miracle, of course, was in large measure a German-American achievement, from Marshall Plan reconstruction, through West Germany?s insertion into NATO, culminating with the astute U...

In re Kubin : Hitting the NAIL on the Head : Sequencing Poor Federal Circuit Court Decisions out of the Biotechnology Patent Genome via KSR and/or Bilski Reasoning

Posted on January 27, 2009
The Human Genome is OURS not theirs: Gene Patents Should be Void on their Face Let us say, prior to our comments about In re Kubin, that we think that gene patents should be void and voided by legislation as a matter of public policy, including all gene patents thus far granted...

The First U.S. Patent of Samuel Hopkins and the Legal Standard in In re Bilski : A Return to the Roots?

Posted on January 27, 2009
In the previous post we noted that In re Bilski, 545 F. 3d 843 (Fed. Cir. 2008)(en banc) held that patent protection does not extend to business methods which are not tied to a machine process or a physical transformation, thus supporting our longstanding criticism of business method patents...

The Apple iPhone Patent and the Voice of the People at Slashdot : The Patenting of Human Gestures is a Colossal USPTO Error

Posted on January 27, 2009
OK. So the clueless USPTO has now approved Apple's 358-page iPhone patent application. Methods for entering data with your fingers (at the snap of a finger?) have been patented as "touch gestures", and similar nonsense. Did someone say something about human Language and Gesture? How about the Apple Multi-Touch Gesture Language? The patenting of a language? Surely you jest...

The Google Glob : What is Wrong at Google? The Last Two Changes of the Google Favicon Are Terrible, both in Color as well as Design

Posted on January 27, 2009
�Goo for Google? We call the new Google favicon "the Google Glob". Something is not right at Google and you may have noticed yourself that the Google favicon has changed over the past 12 months from the familiar large blue "G" to a weak ugly lower case "g" and then recently to an ugly shape marked by a more or less hideous color combination...

Cosmopolitan Citizenship & World Legal Order : Germ. Law J. (1, 2009) on Kant, Habermas, Divided West & International Law Constitutionalization

Posted on January 26, 2009
IN a special edition, 10 German Law Journal No. 1 (1 January 2009) presents The Kantian Project of International Law: Engagements with J. Habermas' The Divided West (in English). Achilles Skordas & Peer Zumbansen write in the introductory article: "After Habermas' Der gespaltene Westen was published in Germany [by Suhrkamp] in 2004 to wide acclaim, Polity Press published an English language

Barack Obama & Hadrian, A New Emperor, presented by 2008 Briton of the Year Neil MacGregor, British Museum Director : Hadrian, Obama and Iraq

Posted on January 26, 2009
Does history repeat itself? You decide. The parallels between the ancient Roman Emperor Hadrian (famed for Hadrian's Wall) and the new US President Barack Obama are remarkable. Watch the video below about Hadrian from the British Museum, narrated by Neil MacGregor, voted Briton of the Year 2008 by the Times in his capacity as Director of the British Museum (and someone Obama might want to

The Americans photographed by Robert Frank and introduced by Jack Kerouac has been published in a new version in English, German and Chinese editions

Posted on January 25, 2009
The Americans in German, "Die Amerikaner" and in Chinese "???". I got this book for my birthday this past December. If you are down about the American economy and the prospects for 2009 and beyond, don't be. Take a look at this book - and at this first link about that book - to see how greatly much of America has changed in the 50+ years since the mid-1950's...

NFL National Football League Super Bowl XLIII (43): Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals : Who Will Win?

Posted on January 19, 2009
Notice: Our predictions are always made in good fun. We disclaim any and all liability for any consequences of any reliance (directly or indirectly) upon our prognostications. May the best team win. NFL Super Bowl XLIII (No. 43) : Pittsburgh Steelers vs...

Overflow Legal : A digg approach to the sheer Volume of Information available in the Law in the Digital Age

Posted on January 19, 2009
OverFlow Legal is trying the digg method of dealing with news information overflow and is offering a similar system of information evaluation with regard to legal news in the modern age. It is a nice idea which, however, pits two conflicting forces against each other: 1) the need of legal professionals to manage information overflow more effectively; and, 2) the resistance of the skeptical

Obama "Yes We Can" Fever Hits Germany

Posted on January 18, 2009
As an American expatriate in Germany, we find that people in the United States have little conception of their IMPACT on other world countries. Most people in the United States think that America is IMPORTANT to the rest of the world - actually, that is not the case, as the rest of the world does not really think much about America in their day-to-day living, but what America has is a worldwide

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