Personal Injury Law

Abraham Lincoln, RIP

Posted on April 14, 2008
O Captain! My Captain!For the Death of Lincolnby Walt Whitman1.O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won.The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring...

Sunday Afternoon Whitman

Posted on April 13, 2008
Fit Audienceby Walt Whitman1.Whoever you are, holding me now in hand,Without one thing, all will be useless:I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further,I am not what you supposed, but far different.2.Who is he that would become my follower?Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?The way is suspicious--the result uncertain, perhaps destructive;You would have to give up all else--I alone would expect to be your God, sole and exclusive;Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,The whole past theory of your life, and all conformity to the lives around you, would have to be abandoned;Therefore release me now, before troubling yourself any further--Let go your hand from my shoulders,Put me down, and depart on your way...

The Late Mr. Shakespeare

Posted on April 12, 2008
22by William Shakespeare My glass shall not persuade me I am old,So long as youth and thou are of one date,But when in thee time's furrows I behold,Then look I death my days should expiate.For all that beauty that doth cover thee,Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me,How can I then be elder than thou art?O therefore love be of thyself so wary,As I not for my self, but for thee will,Bearing thy heart which I will keep so charyAs tender nurse her babe from faring ill...

Godforsaken Hellhole Update

Posted on April 12, 2008
Nigerian Sharia court punishes lesbian couple11th April 2008 15:00Tony GrewTwo women in Kaduna, Nigeria have been sentenced to six months in prison and 20 lashes each for having a lesbian relationship.The Sharia court said that Malama Hauwa and Hajiya Ai'sha were violating the tenets of Islam and the teachings of Sharia law...

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YouTube Factoid Watch IV

Posted on April 10, 2008
At 9:52 p.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a YouTube search for "kill the Jews" returns about 514 results.Our favorite this week is this one:Religion of peace, indeed.

Thursday Night Anonomie

Posted on April 10, 2008
Spring-tideLENTEN ys come with love to toune,With blosmen ant with briddes roune,That al this blisse bryngeth;Dayes-eyes in this dales,Notes suete of nyhtegales,Vch foul song singeth;The threstlecoc him threteth oo,Away is huere wynter wo,When woderove springeth;This foules singeth ferly fele,Ant wlyteth on huere winter wele,That al the wode ryngeth...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on April 10, 2008
At 8:30 p.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a Google search for why westerner misunderstood and say moslem like to cut off heads returns about 272,000 results.[N.B. Here's a clue.]

Wednesday Night Stevenson

Posted on April 09, 2008
IIIThe Flowersby Robert Louis StevensonAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames--These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all.

Schlumberger Watch

Posted on April 06, 2008
We're not sure whether this represents the jihadi's probing of the company's vulnerabilities or some 12th-grader with a cell phone and insufficent adult supervision. Either way, it doesn't sound good. From today's online edition of The Daily Times ("A New Voice for a New Pakistan"):Hoax played on US-based oil company ISLAMABAD: A US-based oil exploration company located in Industrial Area on Saturday received a hoax call that a bomb had been placed on the company premises...

Charlton Heston, R.I.P.

Posted on April 06, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times:Charlton Heston, 84; Oscar-winning actor played larger-than-life figuresBy Robert W. Welkos and Susan King, Special to The Times April 6, 2008Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson in historical epics and went on to become a best-selling author, a contentious Hollywood labor leader, an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died...

Saturday Night Kipling

Posted on April 05, 2008
THE ANSWERby Rudyard KiplingA Rose, in tatters on the garden path,Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath,Because a sudden wind at twilight's hushHad snapped her stem alone of all the bush.And God, Who hears both sun-dried dust and sun,Had pity, whispering to that luckless one,"Sister, in that thou sayest We did not well --What voices heardst thou when thy petals fell?"And the Rose answered, "In that evil hourA voice said, `Father, wherefore falls the flower?For lo, the very gossamers are still...

Charlton Heston, R.I.P.

Posted on April 05, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times:Charlton Heston, 84; Oscar-winning actor played larger-than-life figuresBy Robert W. Welkos and Susan King, Special to The Times April 6, 2008Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson in historical epics and went on to become a best-selling author, a contentious Hollywood labor leader, an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died...

Saturday Night Kipling

Posted on April 05, 2008
THE ANSWERby Rudyard KiplingA Rose, in tatters on the garden path,Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath,Because a sudden wind at twilight's hushHad snapped her stem alone of all the bush.And God, Who hears both sun-dried dust and sun,Had pity, whispering to that luckless one,"Sister, in that thou sayest We did not well --What voices heardst thou when thy petals fell?"And the Rose answered, "In that evil hourA voice said, `Father, wherefore falls the flower?For lo, the very gossamers are still...

Friday Morning Shakespeare

Posted on April 04, 2008
21by William ShakespeareSo is it not with me as with that muse,Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,Who heaven it self for ornament doth use,And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,Making a couplement of proud compareWith sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems:With April's first-born flowers and all things rare,That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems...

Department of Useful Information

Posted on April 03, 2008
Back during the run up to Y2K, there was a guy calling him self Salesman who frequented certain AOL chat rooms, trying to persuade people of the danger of "Y2K-induced zombification". This is a term for which a Google search returns no results, but seemed to refer to people turning into zombies for no reason other than the two zeros going up at midnight, December 31, 1999...

Thursday Afternoon Keats

Posted on April 03, 2008
Sonnet III.Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prisonby John KeatsWhat though, for showing truth to flatter'd state Kind Hunt was shut in prison, yet has he, In his immortal spirit, been as freeAs the sky-searching lark, and as elate.Minion of grandeur! think you he did wait? Think you he nought but prison walls did see, Till, so unwilling, thou unturn'dst the key?Ah, no! far happier, nobler was his fate!In Spenser's halls he strayed, and bowers fair, Culling enchanted flowers; and he flewWith daring Milton through the fields of air: To regions of his own his genius trueTook happy flights...

YouTube Factoid Watch

Posted on April 02, 2008
At 9:33 p.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a search of YouTube for kill the Jews returned about 479 results.Our favorite this week was this one:By way of explanation, Starcatcher778 tells us: Added: March 26, 2008 Sheik Bakr Al-Samarai delivers a sermon during Friday prayers in Iraq in February 2003...

Wednesday Morning Service

Posted on April 02, 2008
The Harpyby Robert W. Service There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years all told were but a score and three; And she knew by heart, from finish to start, the Book of Iniquity.There is no hope for such as I on earth, nor yet in Heaven;Unloved I live, unloved I die, unpitied, unforgiven;A loathed jade, I ply my trade, unhallowed and unshriven...

Monday Night Yeats

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Song Of Wandering Aengusby William Butler YeatsI WENT out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berry to a thread;And when white moths were on the wing,And moth-like stars were flickering out,I dropped the berry in a streamAnd caught a little silver trout...

Creepy Obama Video of the Day

Posted on April 01, 2008
Creepier even than the "punished with a baby" comment (CNN video lives here) is this al-Jazeera report on Sen. Obama's supporters in Gaza:Obviously, a candidate isn't responsible for the people who support him. But we can't help but wonder what it is about Sen...

Recipe for Blasphemy XXII

Posted on April 01, 2008
Not only will the Muslims riot over a rumor of pork, but there are people ready to sue at the mention of peanuts. Might as well annoy everybody today.Pork In Peanut SauceIngredients:5 Lean Pork Tenderloin Chops2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil2 Tablespoons Smooth Peanut Butter1 Tablespoon Natural Honey1/4 Cup Fine Wheat Flour1/4 Teaspoon Chili Powder & Cumin1/2 Teaspoon Table salt1/2 Cup Smooth Coconut milk1/3 Cup Chicken Base1/4 Cup Diced Medium Size Onion1/4 Cup Diced Green Bell Pepper1/4 Cup Crushed Roasted Peanuts1/4 Cup Minced Fresh CilantroInformation:Serving Size 6375 Calories Per Serving10 Grams Of FatCooking Directions:In a bowl, mix the flour, cumin, chili powder, and salt...

Tuesday Morning Browning

Posted on April 01, 2008
Sonnets from the PortugueseIVby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,Most gracious singer of high poems! whereThe dancers will break footing, from the careOf watching up thy pregnant lips for more.And dost thou lift this house's latch too poorFor hand of thine? and canst thou think and bearTo let thy music drop here unawareIn folds of golden fulness at my door?Look up and see the casement broken in,The bats and owlets builders in the roof!My cricket chirps against thy mandolin...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on April 01, 2008
At 9:39 a.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a Google search for the phrase, "intercourse the penguin" returns about 1,910 results.[Caution: link contains unredacted profanity.]

Sunday Afternoon Dickinson

Posted on March 30, 2008
Love II. BEQUEST.by Emily DickinsonYou left me, sweet, two legacies, --A legacy of loveA Heavenly Father would content,Had He the offer of;You left me boundaries of painCapacious as the sea,Between eternity and time,Your consciousness and me.

Somehow, that doesn't make us feel any better

Posted on March 30, 2008
From the West Bank town of Hebron, a young Palestinian demonstrates the baleful influence of his country's teachers union.THX to Little Green Footballs.Like many taxpayers, we think that the National Education Association has a vested interest in graduating semi-literate substance abusers from American public schools, and it's not really surprising to find out that, as Elwood Blues observed, "no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive there are still some things that make us all the same...

Saturday Night Shakespeare

Posted on March 30, 2008
20by William Shakespeare A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, Hast thou the master mistress of my passion, A woman's gentle heart but not acquainted With shifting change as is false women's fashion, An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling: Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth, A man in hue all hues in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth...

The Theater Scene

Posted on March 28, 2008
While the world's eyebeams are focused on the Geert Wilders film, Fitna: the Movie, a premiere on the Potsdam theater scene has escaped notice:Muslim leader advises calm over Satanic Verses stage playMarch 28th, 2008 - 9:38 pmPotsdam (Germany), March 28 (DPA) A Muslim leader in Germany called Friday for calm ahead of the premiere near Berlin of a stage play based on The Satanic Verses, the controversial novel by Indian-born author Salman Rushdie...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on March 28, 2008
At 12:24 p.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a Google search for Fitna the movie returns about 111,000 results.[N.B.: Disturbing images warning.]

Probably Not As Bad As It Sounds...

Posted on March 28, 2008
...but Lord, it sounds bad enough.From the redoubtable Associated Press, via the once-respectable Chicago Tribune, so the usual caveats apply:Mexico Sends New Troops to US BorderBy Associated Press 10:25 PM CDT, March 27, 2008CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The Mexican government said Thursday it has sent more than 2,500 soldiers and federal police to curb soaring violence in a border state across from Texas and New Mexico...

Friday Morning Kilmer

Posted on March 28, 2008
Madness(For Sara Teasdale)by Joyce KilmerThe lonely farm, the crowded street,The palace and the slum,Give welcome to my silent feetAs, bearing gifts, I come.Last night a beggar crouched alone,A ragged helpless thing;I set him on a moonbeam throne --Today he is a king...

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