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 …

UPDATED—October 31, 2025

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. …

A PDF Posting Test

Running a test. If you want to read about Schooling for Seniors: https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/26186/2025/back-to-school-2.pdf

(true story, novella length)

A planned meeting with an NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by a Saudi king; a meeting on 26 June 2023 with DoJ growing out of the 1MDB scandal; the aftermath of the Mariscal Sucre …

No Marriage, No Children, No Future

Save the Pilots, Save the Load, Save Yourself

Just posted: Girl, Taken. The true story of how ISIS killed Kayla.

A planned meeting with a NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by a Saudi king; a meeting on 26 June 2023 with DoJ growing out of the 1MDB scandal; the aftermath of the Mariscal Sucre drilling project off the coast …

In January 2024, my colleague crowbarred me into a conference call with Oliver Stanford, a potential client in New York who had been beaten up by a gang. The story, as relayed to me, was that Oliver was so traumatized by the incident that he wanted …

Marguerite Duras published her autobiographical novel The Lover in 1984. Though she was already an accomplished novelist and filmmaker, it is that book in which she spoke of her childhood in Vietnam that made her a global figure. Having grown up in …

The US hasn’t invaded Venezuela but crowed about destroying a fast boat that may or may not have been carrying drugs, that may or may not have been affiliated with Tren de Aragua and now we’ll never know.

We do know that there were eleven people on …

The idea of full-time adult education caught my attention some time ago. Inexpensive student housing, world-class athletic facilities, no lines at Student Health, lectures on almost every conceivable subject and wine and cheese parties: what’s …