Practice Management

Friday Poem: "Thoughts After Snyder's Poem"
Thoughts After Snyder's Poem What you should know The poet said To be a poet To which I add a word: Know who you are are not Where your darkness starts Words' weight in drams and scruples What other poets...

Burmas Dictators Give Blogger Over 20 Years for Insulting Poem
Nay Myo Kyaw, a 28-year old blogger in Burma, has received a horrific 20 year and 6 month sentence for writing a poem viewed as a veiled criticism of the dictatorship. Another poet, Saw Wai, was given 2 years for a Valentine’s Day poem and even the lawyer, Aung Thein...

A Products Liability Poem
In Monday's Writer's Almanac, Garrison Keillor brings us the poem "Warnings" by David Allen Sullivan. An excerpt: A can of self-defense pepper spray says it may irritate the eyes, while a bathroom heater says it's not to be used in...

I am meth. Poem by unknown author.
The following poem is rumored to have been authored by a teenage meth addict who died with the needle still in her arm. While I don’t believe that, the message is all too true...

Max Planck Institute Missteps
The Independent reports that the Max Planck Institute, looking for a Chinese poem to reproduce on a cover for a recent issue of a journal it publishes worldwide, got hold of something it thought fit the bill...

Nudge, Shel Silverstein, Smart, and Negotiation
I'm currently reading Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by the U of C professors Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. I'll probably post a review later, but I found one part (on page 77) particularly interesting....

Daimler Chrysler et al.
alleged negligence pertaining to lost confidential client data which exposed customers to identity theft