the archives of f/k/a . . .

Check out your editor’s Guest Post at Crime & Federalism: pro bono Publico Relations,

for a discussion of the proposal before the New York State Bar Association to grreatly

expand the definition of pro bono services.

 

frosty night–
seven poor men
in a huddle

my dream comes true–
this spring my god
the god of the poor

 

all according to plan, yet
I’m cold!
poor!

                                                     from Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue  

 

 

   one-breath pundit 

Ken Lammers of the CrimLaw weblog has been covering (originally at my request)

a jailhouse confession by a 21-year-old man, who admitted brutally killing his aunt

last week in Troy, NY.  (See Pitcher Jailhouse Interview, WRGB/CBS 6 News, Jan. 12,

2005).  It is an interesting and sad tale, with lots of issues for lawyers (and citizens).  

Click for Ken’s posts:  Confessing to the Media, A Federal PD Speaks and

More on the Television Confession Case

I‘m too anxious to share the haiku of our newest Honored Guest, Peggy Willis Lyles, to write a proper introduction (which will come tomorrow). See for yourself why:

bitter wind . . .
the hand that cups the flame
aglow

snowed in

the wedding-ring quilt

lumpy with children

winter night
he patiently untangles
her antique silver chain

Peggy Lyles, from To Hear the Rain (Brooks Books, 2002)

from dagosan:

holiday leftovers –

searching the closet

for baggy clothes

[Jan. 19, 2005]

one-breath pundit — two updates –

Remember Romolo Versaci, the Schenectady lawyer suing an unemployed widow-mother
for referring to him as a “so-called attorney” on a local website? [see our story] I was
wondering just this weekend whether he had dropped his $100,000 defamation suit. Well,
this morning, Pat Zollinger, the Administrator of the local talkboard website, where the
comment was made announced “Well it happened. I’ve been subpoenaed to appear for
this lawsuit in March.” [reply 38] How Romolo’s reputation doing so far?

Local Watchdogs Save Stray Dogs: We complained on Saturday about the cynical
Town Supervisor who changed the Guilderland (NY) Pet Shelter from a “no kill” to a “kill”
facility right after volunteers finished a $100,000 donation drive to renovate the Shelter.
I’m pleased to say that dozens of residents went out on a near-zero night yesterday and
“after much public outcry, the town supervisor and board members of the Guilderhaven Pet
Shelter have come to a new agreement. … Supervisor Kenneth Runion said, ‘It gives the dogs
the training they need to become good household pets, and it ensures if they can’t be made
good family household pets, they’ll be put somewhere that is safe’.” Thanks to those who
cared enough to take action. (”New policy for local animal shelter,” Capital News 9, 1/19/05)