International Law

Cotton Balls
Old School was on TBS this weekend. They had to clean up the language a little bit for basic cable. The funniest part was when the one guy tried to demonstrate "earmuffs." (You say "earmuffs," the kid in the room covers his ears, and then it's safe to say "bad words" in front of the kid...

Easy to Please...
Last night, something rolled under the bed, and I grabbed my broom to go retrieve it. This process also turned up one Kong ball and no less than FIVE tennis balls. Can I just tell you, the kid is in heaven today...

Purity Balls
The New York Times today has an article describing Puirty Balls, dances in which fathers vow to protect their daughters and keep them pure. Reading it made me very uncomfortable. Fostering healthy father/daughter relationships is a wonderful goal, but I’m not very inclined to call the relationships described (from what I can gather from a [...

On the driving range in The Woodlands
Several years ago, during the early part of the final round of the U.S. Women's Open, I was hitting balls at the driving range of the Player Course here in The Woodlands. I figured that I would hit balls...

The Web — According to Thrope
Here’ s an interesting article by Jonathan Thrope, aspiring writer for The American Lawyer. Titled “Still Loading: Law Firms Lag Behind the Rest of Corporate America on the Web,” the article compares the sites of the Fortune 500 to those of the Am Law 200 (which is a bit like comparing bowling balls to golf balls)...

dog balls no...truck balls.
some people are special. an article on above the law this morning has convinced me that people are more special than i have ever given them credit for. weird: apparently, there is a fad down there called truck-nutz...