Read ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’˜ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘น๐’๐’„๐’Œ๐’†๐’•๐’”: ๐‘จ๐’ ๐‘จ๐’Ž๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’˜๐’š๐’†๐’“ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’Š๐’“๐’‚๐’’. Or, read about a strange proffer, a secret intelligence network and more in ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’ ๐‘จ๐’“๐’ƒ๐’†๐’›
Michael OKane

Former Miami federal criminal defense lawyer, Mexicana Airlines cargo station rep and oh yeah, Saudi Arabia.


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    Venezuela and Napoleon

    I hope that Maduro takes Napoleonโ€™s advice concerning Louis XVI. That is, Louis should not have recognized the French courtโ€™s jurisdiction to try him, he should not have participated in the proceedings.

    Noriega, unfortunately, โ€ฆ

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    Electronic Signatures

    The Danish post office announced that it will no longer accept or deliver letters. The writing has long been on the wall: paper documents are deprecated. Given that a forty-page contract would probably not qualify as a letterโ€”but then again, thereโ€™s โ€ฆ

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    Happy Holidays

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    The Fire: Thai-Cambodia Border Skirmish, December, 2025

    When I was in Riyadh, Houthi missiles would fall from time to time; now I am in Bangkok where a new war threatens.

    Following a peace conference between Thailand and Cambodia held in neutral Kuala Lumpur, Thailand and Cambodia accuse each other of โ€ฆ

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    German Fanta has 3% fruit juice, real sugar and natural colors. American Fanta has no fruit juice, corn syrup sweetener and Red#89. According to European legislation, American Fanta can be sold in the EU but must carry a warning label.

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    Adm.Doenitz' order to machine-gun survivors of U-Boat attacks rather than take them as prisoners was the basis for his Nuremberg war crimes conviction.

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    Business Dinner Ice Breaker

    It’s not uncommon to be at a business dinner, a wedding guest table or another venue where you barely know or do not know the people you’re sitting with. Breaking the ice with, “How about those Cubbies?” doesn’t work if โ€ฆ

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    Pachamama

    None of that mattered. I had to do everything. Only in the mountains could the prayer be heard. I would need the fetus of a llama to build the mesa, the altar of sacrifice. We took a bus to go deeper into the mountains, deep where the roads were โ€ฆ

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    Donald Mark Schoff Tried to Kill Me

    Karma is a universal force that balances accounts. The need for such balancing crosses all cultures. In the West, we call it Justice and build courthouses, temples where accounts are balanced; where justice is dispensed. For a long rime I worked in โ€ฆ

    The Missing Piece

    I have been thinking a lot about “what if”' scenarios. I also have been thinking about how precarious things are at the moment. The last time I felt this way was August, 2001. I had just started a new job in Riyadh. All my financial โ€ฆ

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    Thanksgiving Terror

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    Kenshin vs. Satan

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    Wittgensteinโ€™s Odd Classmate

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author of Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a don at Cambridge, and one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, was a Catholic Austrian Jew who fought as an officer for the โ€ฆ

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    When Clients Don't Pay

    Annals of Attorney Billing, Episode #432

    Most firms only count collected hours, not mere billed hours. A certain percentage of your clients will try to stiff you.. This happens at all levels: it’s not just new clients, not just small clients. โ€ฆ

    Paying Attorneys Fees with Story Rights

    D.C. Bar Rule 1.8(c) says,

    " (c) Prior to the conclusion of representation of a client, a lawyer shall not make or negotiate an agreement giving the lawyer literary or media rights to a portrayal or account based in substantial part on โ€ฆ

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    The Joan Anderson Letter: Copyright Conundrum

    UPDATEDโ€”October 31, 2025

    An article in The American Scholar recounts the genesis of Jack Kerouacโ€™s novel, On the Road. (https://theamericanscholar.org/scrolling-through/)

    Tsk, tsk: the author fails to mention the long-lostโ€”but recently foundโ€”Joan โ€ฆ

    Revisiting Half and Half

    Returning to Bahrain. The street they call the American Alley, near the US Naval Base, a place of interest to the Islamic Republic of Iran, just a short way across the Persian Gulf. Spies from a hundred countries try to capture overheard โ€ฆ

    Smollet: Yes; Santos: No

    I just watched a documentary about Jusse Smollet, the gay black actor who claimed to be a victim of a hate crime, a simulated lynching at 0200 in downtown Chicago several years ago. Smollet became a joke, a rehearsal for George Santos who was such an โ€ฆ

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    How Trump gets a Third Term

    Bannon says โ€œrun anywayโ€: the Supremes will interpret the 22nd Amendment to add the word โ€œconsecutiveโ€ and youโ€™re golden.

    Lawyers say, โ€œrun as V-P with a deal with Vance to resign.โ€ You get a third term automatically since you wonโ€™t have been โ€ฆ

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    How Trump Gets a Third Term

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    More Job Hunting Tips

    Weโ€™re Here to See HR

    Have an actor dress up as a police officer or detective (if male, a fedora is required) and visit the HR department of your target employer. Don’t know who’s in charge? The “officers” can merely ask the receptionist. A toy โ€ฆ

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    Lawyer Superhero

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    Job Hunting Tips

    Vampire Squirrel Coffin

    For eight hundred bucks you can purchase a 21 foot container. Have it delivered to the loading dock of your target employer. The “paperwork” accompanying the container contains a USB with your video, personal data sheet, cv and other โ€ฆ