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.

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.

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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

Tsk, tsk: the author fails to mention the long-lost—but recently found—Joan …

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 …

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 …

Bannon says “run anyway”: the Supremes will interpret the 22nd Amendment to add the word “consecutive” and you’re golden.

Lawyers say, “run as V-P with a deal with Vance to resign.” You get a third term automatically since you won’t have been …

How Trump Gets a Third Term

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 …

Lawyer Superhero

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 …

I just learned that LinkedIn’s filters only work in the English language.

I can’t write, “shame on you,” but I can write, “qué vergüenza.”

I can’t write “suicide” but “selbstmorden” …

The recent film Rosario has as one of its themes the Afro-Cuban religion known as palo mayombé, or palo for short. There was a time when I handled cases in Detroit; one of them involved a practitioner of palo. Every Miamian knows of santería and its …

Another Reason why American Insurance is so Costly

Six people in Palm Beach County Florida (Civil juries in Florida are comprised of only six people.) awarded 85 year-old golfer Jack Nicklaus FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS in compensation on the grounds he …

AI Legal Hallucinations and Unsolved Erdös Problems

We’ve just seen the first example (Maybe “one of the first.") of non-legal AI hallucinations in the wild, where ChatGPT claimed to solve ten previously unsolved Erdös math problems. …