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 …
Former Miami federal criminal defense lawyer, Mexicana Airlines cargo station rep and oh yeah, Saudi Arabia.
The Joan Anderson Letter: Copyright Conundrum
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 …
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 …
How Trump gets a Third Term
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
More Job Hunting Tips
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
Job Hunting Tips
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 …
English Language Chauvinism
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” …
Nganga
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
The Hotel Arbez
(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 …
William Scott Stewart
Forthcoming
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.
The Hotel Arbez
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 …
New Identity Set Up
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 …
A Vietnamese-Speaking Lawyer
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 …
A Failed Tonkin Incident
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 …
Back to School: It’s Never Too Late to Chase Your Dreams
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 …
Interesting Times
The UFO community is excited by reports of several anomalies attendant to what is probably an eccentric comet but which might be technological. The absence of iron in the chemical make up of its tail, its almost planned trajectory through our solar …
Lisa Cook Should Go to Jail
James Brooks
James Brooks was a carnie, a worker at a traveling carnival that moved from one Southern State to another. Carnivals often winter in Florida, which was fine with Brooks, who was on the run from some unpleasantness in New Jersey.
Brooks …
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 …
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 …