Personal Injury Law

Sunday Night Lanier

Posted on February 24, 2008
Rose-moralsby Sidney Lanier I. RedWould that my songs might be [1]What roses make by day and night --Distillments of my clod of misery Into delight.Soul, could'st thou bare thy breastAs yon red rose, and dare the day,All clean, and large, and calm with velvet rest? Say yea -- say yea!Ah, dear my Rose, good-bye;The wind is up; so; drift away...

"Pakistan Needs To Wake Up"

Posted on February 23, 2008
Washburn School of Law professor Liaquat Ali Khan has been talking with one Ismail Salami about the political future of his native Pakistan. An excerpt:Q. In the recent elections in Pakistan, most of the people have voted for 'moderate parties' as they say...

Saturday Morning Anonymous

Posted on February 23, 2008
The Hymn of Tlaloc.translated by Daniel G. Brinton 1. In Mexico the god appears; thy banner is unfolded in all directions, and no one weeps. 2. I, the god, have returned again, I have turned again to the place of abundance of blood-sacrifices; there when the day grows old, I am beheld as a god...

Another Difference Between Them and Us

Posted on February 22, 2008
Two stories, both involving dogs, both involving the legal systems of their respective countries, pointing up the differences between America and Iran.First, this item from Adnkronos International:Iran: Four months in jail and 30 lashes for walking dog in streets Tehran, 19 Feb...

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I Want My DTV

Posted on February 22, 2008
We get only two channels at home, one of which is mostly about pledge week and the other mostly having to do with school closings, but in about 361 days we won't even be able to see them, unless we make the transition to digital television. In the spirit of a government big enough to give you everything you want, The Commerce Department is offering to help:Details live here...

Ad Astra per Crappa

Posted on February 22, 2008
The blogresses at In This Moment, one our favorite leftist/progressive sites, alerted us to an interesting exchange on the floor of our state's House of Representatives.The topic was whether state law should ban cities like Lawrence from enacting domestic partnership registry ordinances...

Friday Morning Shakespeare

Posted on February 22, 2008
16by William ShakespeareBut wherefore do not you a mightier wayMake war upon this bloody tyrant Time?And fortify your self in your decayWith means more blessed than my barren rhyme?Now stand you on the top of happy hours,And many maiden gardens yet unset,With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit:So should the lines of life that life repairWhich this (Time's pencil) or my pupil penNeither in inward worth nor outward fairCan make you live your self in eyes of men...

Thursday Afternoon Horace

Posted on February 21, 2008
ODE III.TO THE SHIP, IN WHICH VIRGIL WAS ABOUT TO SAIL TO ATHENS.by Quintus Horatius FlaccusSo may the goddess who rules over Cyprus; so may the bright stars, thebrothers of Helen; and so may the father of the winds, confining allexcept Iapyx, direct thee, O ship, who art intrusted with Virgil; myprayer is, that thou mayest land him safe on the Athenian shore, andpreserve the half of my soul...

300, 299, 29...

Posted on February 20, 2008
Despite losses in Wisconsin and Hawaii, and despite trailing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by some 600 delegates, Governor Mike Huckabee vows to continue the fight. Details live here.And we finally figured out what bothers us about the Republican Party's presumptive nominee:McCain doesn't rhyme!

Cop Life Update

Posted on February 20, 2008
More details emerge from the sad tale of Natasha Hall and her deranged, gun-toting boyfriend, Daniel Clayton Kufner, in Deland, Fla.The original story was one of police incompetence and indifference in the face of stalking and domestic abuse that led to the deaths of two teen-agers...

Wednesday Morning Gilbert

Posted on February 20, 2008
From "The Pirates of Penzance"by W.S. GilbertSergeant. When a felon's not engaged in his employment ?Police. His employment,Sergeant. Or maturing his felonious little plans ?Police. Little plans,Sergeant. His capacity for innocent enjoyment ?Police...

Ladies in Black

Posted on February 20, 2008
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works," observed Van Morrison. Certainly we'd agree, although the notion represents a minority opinion among audiences (as Bob Dylan learned in 1965, as did Phil Ochs that same year)...

Wednesday Night Sappho

Posted on February 19, 2008
Fragmentby SapphoThe Moon is down,The Pleiades. Midnight,The hours flow on,I lie, alone.

Flashie Backie

Posted on February 19, 2008
Old guy, guitar, YouTube, Chambers Brothers. Yah, we can relate. Except we can't help but notice that he left out the part about being "psychedelicized".

Department of Clarification

Posted on February 18, 2008
Surströmming is from SwedenLutefisk is from Norway.Don't be Confused!

Pantalones en fuego

Posted on February 18, 2008
The beast feeds upon itself:Senator's actions cause conflict'Trousergate' has some Kansas Democrats requesting Barone's removal as chairmanThe Associated PressPublished Monday, February 18, 2008A Democratic state senator with a history of butting heads with his party has run afoul of party leaders again, this time over what they said he did with sensitive polling data...

Monday Evening Burns

Posted on February 18, 2008
Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchlineby Robert BurnsFriday first's the day appointedBy the Right Worshipful anointed,To hold our grand procession;To get a blad o' Johnie's morals,And taste a swatch o' Manson's barrelsI' the way of our profession...

Cop Life

Posted on February 18, 2008
Another tale of the police, doing what they do best, this time from Florida:Mom: Police Told Daughter To Stop Calling Before Murder-Suicide 'The Day She Died, She Knew She Couldn't Talk To Police,' Mom SaysPOSTED: 7:38 am EST February 18, 2008UPDATED: 3:04 pm EST February 18, 2008DELAND, Fla...

Don't Mention the War

Posted on February 17, 2008
We have a couple of questions about this BBC report from Holland: Nazi-era singer returns to stage A 104-year-old Dutch cabaret singer who once performed in Nazi Germany has given a concert in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades...

Sunday Morning Whitman

Posted on February 17, 2008
TEARS.by Walt WhitmanTears! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears;On the white shore dripping, dripping, sucked in by the sand;Tears--not a star shining--all dark and desolate;Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head:--O who is that ghost?--that form in the dark, with tears?What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouched there on the sand?Streaming tears--sobbing tears--throes, choked with wild cries;O storm, embodied, rising, careering, with swift steps along the beach;O wild and dismal night-storm, with wind! O belching and desperate!O shade, so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace;But away, at night, as you fly, none looking--O then the unloosened oceanOf tears! tears! tears!

Doings of the Land of Egypt Watch

Posted on February 17, 2008
Ok, we get the part about not liking George W. Bush. What we can't figure out is why so many of our friends on the progressive left think they're going to get a better deal if the war against Islamofascism is lost and the mullahs take over.Consider this item from al-Associated Press:Egypt Steps Up HIV ArrestsFeb 15, 6:58 PM (ET) By KATARINA KRATOVACCAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian police have stepped up arrests of persons suspected of having HIV, detaining four men this month in a crackdown that violates basic human rights, two international rights groups said Friday...

Saturday Morning Schiller

Posted on February 16, 2008
THE WINTER NIGHT.by Friedrich Schiller Farewell! the beauteous sun is sinking fast, The moon lifts up her head; Farewell! mute night o'er earth's wide round at last Her darksome raven-wing has spread. Across the wintry plain no echoes float, Save, from the rock's deep womb, The murmuring streamlet, and the screech-owl's note, Arising from the forest's gloom...

The New Number Six

Posted on February 16, 2008
Our new attorney general demonstrates how he got the job:A.G. Six resists abortion subpoenaBy John HannaThe Associated PressPublished Saturday, February 16, 2008Attorney General Stephen Six is resisting a subpoena from a Sedgwick County grand jury investigating abortion provider George Tiller...

Saturday Night Shakespeare

Posted on February 15, 2008
15by William Shakespeare When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment. That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment. When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky: Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory...

The Municipal Jihad

Posted on February 15, 2008
Here's a recent excerpt from the writings of Washburn Law School Professor Liaquat Ali Khan, who says we need to be nicer to the Taliban:The Holding It may, therefore, be safely concluded that NATO combat troops and NATO commanders are engaged in murdering the Taliban, a protected group under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to physically and mentally destroy the group in whole or in part...

Service Update II

Posted on January 03, 2008
We're letting this blog go dark for a few days weeks, while we figure out how to use some of the new hardware that came in over the holidays. We've also decided to take some time to put Casa de los Perros Grandes on a more rational footing (which Aunt Zillah seems to think involves us getting a job), while we wait for the temperature to climb out of the dairy case range in our living room (which is where the computer lives), and for that knock on the door from Ed McMahon...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on December 28, 2007
At 7:37 p.m., Central U.S. time, a Google search for the phrase "f*** the Huck" (caution: link contains unredacted profanity) returns about 230 results.

Unprecedented Acts Involving Sheep

Posted on December 25, 2007
As much as we try to keep this on a family-friendly level, some days it's harder than others. Take, for example, this tale of oil and lanolin, wherein expatriate oil workers are accused of performing "unprecedented" acts with two sheep. In Algeria...

Incredibly Cute Baby Animal Photo of the Day IV

Posted on December 23, 2007
This item comes from the creative minds at al-Associated Press, so the usual caveats apply. Nevertheless, it confirms our belief that the only thing cuter than a baby panda is a baby panda and her mom.AP puts it this way:Four-month-old giant panda cub Zhen Zhen, left, leans against her mother Bai Yun, right, as she eats in their enclosure at the San Diego Zoo during a media preview Friday, Dec...

Sunday Afternoon Dickinson

Posted on December 23, 2007
XXVII. THE CHARIOT.by Emily Dickinson, (December 10, 1830 ? May 15, 1886)Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility...

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