f/k/a . . .

Levity is certainly not banned at Passover, so I’d like to treat you to some

unleavened haiku from Haikus for Jews : For You, a Little Wisdom,

by David M. Bader (Harmony, 1999), and wish Happy Passover to all my

Jewish friends and readers.

 

 

 

Left the door open

for the prophet Elijah

         Now our cat is gone

 

 

 

 

BLT on toast –

the rabbi takes his first bite,

           then the lightning bolt.

 

 

 

 

 

Quietly murmured

at Saturday services,

           Yanks 5, Red Sox 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Through the Read Sea costs

extra.”   Israeli movers

              overcharge Moses

 

 

 

 

 DAVID M. BADER

from Haikus for Jews : For You, a Little Wisdom (Harmony, 1999).

 

 

• 
  
  by dagosan                                               

Seder

the kids suddenly

like macaroons

 

 

[April 29, 2005]

potluck

 

Flee before it’s too late:  Washington Post writer Mary Ellen Slayter is following up on her

column on making the decision to go to law school with a live online chat, next Friday, May 6th,

at 2 PM (East Coast time).  Her guest will be the author of Should You Really Be a Lawyer?, the

book we mentioned last week,   You can leave questions in advance and are urged to join in. 

 

  Nowhere to flee: At C&F, Mike Cernovich quotes from a disturbing 8th Circuit  

opinion issued today, Doe v. Miller, >No. 04-1568 (8th Cir. Apr. 29, 2005), upholding a ban

against sexual predators living within 2,000 feet of a school.  As Mike notes, Miami Beach

is considering a similar law, which would in practice preclude sex offenders from living anywhere

in the town.  Our society needs to think through the many issues involved in dealing with sex felons

who have competed their sentences.  It’s not just rabid civil libertarians who think we may be going

too far with restrictions — besides the issues of fairness, rights and effectiveness, the measures may

be creating unnecessary hysteria and lulling parents and kids into false feelings of security, with

only grandstanding politicians gaining.   In my agrea there is growing agitation to do more, and a

Schenectay, NY, legislator wants to require GPS monitoring ankle-bracelets on all sex offenders, and

wants to require all landlords to check the offender registry before renting a unit.  [Related:  ABC News 

piece ”City Mulls Buffer Zones to Ward Off Sex Offenders,” and AP article, ”Fla. Bill Approves Sex-

Offender Monitoring,” April 9, 2005)] 

 

 

Levity is certainly not banned at Passover, so I’d like to treat you to some

unleavened haiku from Haikus for Jews : For You, a Little Wisdom,

by David M. Bader (Harmony, 1999), and wish Happy Passover to all my

Jewish friends and readers.

 

 

 

Left the door open

for the prophet Elijah

         Now our cat is gone

 

 

 

 

BLT on toast –

the rabbi takes his first bite,

           then the lightning bolt.

 

 

 

 

 

Quietly murmured

at Saturday services,

           Yanks 5, Red Sox 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Through the Read Sea costs

extra.”   Israeli movers

              overcharge Moses

 

 

 

 

 DAVID M. BADER

from Haikus for Jews : For You, a Little Wisdom (Harmony, 1999).

 

 

• 
  
  by dagosan                                               

Seder

the kids suddenly

like macaroons

 

 

[April 29, 2005]

potluck

 

Flee before it’s too late:  Washington Post writer Mary Ellen Slayter is following up on her

column on making the decision to go to law school with a live online chat, next Friday, May 6th,

at 2 PM (East Coast time).  Her guest will be the author of Should You Really Be a Lawyer?, the

book we mentioned last week,   You can leave questions in advance and are urged to join in. 

 

  Nowhere to flee: At C&F, Mike Cernovich quotes from a disturbing 8th Circuit  

opinion issued today, Doe v. Miller, >No. 04-1568 (8th Cir. Apr. 29, 2005), upholding a ban

against sexual predators living within 2,000 feet of a school.  As Mike notes, Miami Beach

is considering a similar law, which would in practice preclude sex offenders from living anywhere

in the town.  Our society needs to think through the many issues involved in dealing with sex felons

who have competed their sentences.  It’s not just rabid civil libertarians who think we may be going

too far with restrictions — besides the issues of fairness, rights and effectiveness, the measures may

be creating unnecessary hysteria and lulling parents and kids into false feelings of security, with

only grandstanding politicians gaining.   In my agrea there is growing agitation to do more, and a

Schenectay, NY, legislator wants to require GPS monitoring ankle-bracelets on all sex offenders, and

wants to require all landlords to check the offender registry before renting a unit.  [Related:  ABC News 

piece ”City Mulls Buffer Zones to Ward Off Sex Offenders,” and AP article, ”Fla. Bill Approves Sex-

Offender Monitoring,” April 9, 2005)] 

 

 

The venerable Bob Ambrogi has taken issue with my treatment of the Massachusetts

Bar Association in the post “bar & guild.”  See LawSite’s In defense of the Mass. Bar,

(April 28, 2005).  Click here to see both Bob’s statement and the Comments that I left

in response.  (thanks to Lisa Stone for the link).

 

 

 

packing away the scarecrow
grandpa says
his respects

 

 

Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue  

 

Our Fool in the Forest friend located another podcast skeptic at Sploid, and George

is correct — “hilarity ensues”.   This old podriah is grinnin’.

 

The venerable Bob Ambrogi has taken issue with my treatment of the Massachusetts

Bar Association in the post “bar & guild.”  See LawSite’s In defense of the Mass. Bar,

(April 28, 2005).  Click here to see both Bob’s statement and the Comments that I left

in response.  (thanks to Lisa Stone for the link).

 

 

 

packing away the scarecrow
grandpa says
his respects

 

 

Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue  

 

Our Fool in the Forest friend located another podcast skeptic at Sploid, and George

is correct — “hilarity ensues”.   This old podriah is grinnin’.

 

Together at last:  Billie Wilson from Alaska and

Jim Kacian from Virginia:

 

 

alpine meadow-
kneeling to photograph
white heather

 

 

 

 

 

 

warm beer–

heat lightning flickers

beyond the outfield

 

 

 

 

missing you–

the farrier’s hands

calm the mood mare

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billie Wilson

“warm beer”  frogpond XVII:2 (2004)

“missing you” frogpond XVII:2 (2004)

“alpine meadow”: The Heron’s Nest (Oct. 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

first date–

she lets go of my hand

by the monkey cage

 

 

 

 

 

 

calm evening
the ballgame play-by-play
across the water

 

                    

 

 

 

 

the place i can’t reach itches your absence

 

 

 

Jim Kacian

“first date” Snapshots 10

“calm evening” & “the place” - TAO

 

 

 

 

• 
  
  by dagosan                                               

 

[sorry: I didn’t write any haiku today;

blame Ambrogi for the distraction]

 

 

[April 28, 2005]

 

 

potluck

  Noting CourtTV’s challenge to the total ban on cameras in courtrooms in New York State, 

Norm Pattis at Crime & Federalism is very down on Entertrials – but, he uses overbroad

arguments he would never accept if his own or his clients’ rights were being limited.  Forty-three

states allow tv cameras in court, and the NYS Bar Association filed an amicus brief supporting

CourtTV.  (see: AP/NYNewsday article; and Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle, editorial:

“Allow cameras in New York courts and the U.S. Supreme Court,” April 28, 2005)  Opponents

keep citing polls where lawyers and judges say cameras changed their behavior.  Given our notion

that most judges and lawyers would prefer to avoid being e-shamed of themselves, I’ve got to

wonder if their behavior got worse or better in front of tv cameras. 

 

 Carolyn Elefant writes about the occasional loneliness of the solo practitioner, and points

to a column offering some advice.  Carolyn admits she’s more of a loner, but still can miss

interacting with colleagues.  I’m pretty gregarious, and not having an office filled with

colleagues and staffers was a big downside for me in my years as a solo.  Luckily, my

practice got me to Family Court a few times a week (where I was soon reminded of the

pluses of solitude).

 

  More Referer Madness:  More curious search engine results from my Referer Page

(or, is there a pattern here?):

curmudgeons> f/k/a is #1 in this Yahoo search, out of 91,000 results, due to our post

Making the World Safe for Curmudgeons  (Oct. 8, 2003)

 

Ayatollah Khomeini Salmon Rushdie fatwah> we’re #2 in a Google search, thanks

to our ringing defense of Yusuf Islam, f/k/a Cat Stevens.

 

lawyers day>  #1 of 35.5 million results in a Yahoo search, because we wrote

about  Law Day, Not Lawyers’ Day

 

Ron Baker value pricing>  our expose ron baker & price sensitivity placed us #1  

of 35,000 results in this Google Search.

 

“tinyredcheck”   Can antitrust law learn from the field of “complexity science“?   That intriguing topic is

the focus of an American Antitrust Institute Roundtable on Complexity, Networks, and the Modernization

of Antitrust to be held June 20, 2005, at the National Press Club, Washington DC.   You can find links to

related papers and books at the newly-created Compexity Page in AAI’s Guide to Antitrust Resources on the Web. [Note: Attendance at the limited-space Roundtable is currently by invitation, but will be opened, if

space is available.  If seats become available, I will let you know.]

 

 

Together at last:  Billie Wilson from Alaska and

Jim Kacian from Virginia:

 

 

alpine meadow-
kneeling to photograph
white heather

 

 

 

 

 

 

warm beer–

heat lightning flickers

beyond the outfield

 

 

 

 

missing you–

the farrier’s hands

calm the mood mare

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billie Wilson

“warm beer”  frogpond XVII:2 (2004)

“missing you” frogpond XVII:2 (2004)

“alpine meadow”: The Heron’s Nest (Oct. 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

first date–

she lets go of my hand

by the monkey cage

 

 

 

 

 

 

calm evening
the ballgame play-by-play
across the water

 

                    

 

 

 

 

the place i can’t reach itches your absence

 

 

 

Jim Kacian

“first date” Snapshots 10

“calm evening” & “the place” - TAO

 

 

 

 

• 
  
  by dagosan                                               

 

[sorry: I didn’t write any haiku today;

blame Ambrogi for the distraction]

 

 

[April 28, 2005]

 

 

potluck

  Noting CourtTV’s challenge to the total ban on cameras in courtrooms in New York State, 

Norm Pattis at Crime & Federalism is very down on Entertrials – but, he uses overbroad

arguments he would never accept if his own or his clients’ rights were being limited.  Forty-three

states allow tv cameras in court, and the NYS Bar Association filed an amicus brief supporting

CourtTV.  (see: AP/NYNewsday article; and Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle, editorial:

“Allow cameras in New York courts and the U.S. Supreme Court,” April 28, 2005)  Opponents

keep citing polls where lawyers and judges say cameras changed their behavior.  Given our notion

that most judges and lawyers would prefer to avoid being e-shamed of themselves, I’ve got to

wonder if their behavior got worse or better in front of tv cameras. 

 

 Carolyn Elefant writes about the occasional loneliness of the solo practitioner, and points

to a column offering some advice.  Carolyn admits she’s more of a loner, but still can miss

interacting with colleagues.  I’m pretty gregarious, and not having an office filled with

colleagues and staffers was a big downside for me in my years as a solo.  Luckily, my

practice got me to Family Court a few times a week (where I was soon reminded of the

pluses of solitude).