autumn clothesline
his and her pyjamas
frozen together
calmly talking divorce
underfoot the crackle
of fallen leaves
having to guess
from the footsteps:
evening fog
eyelid lightshow —
he hits the snooze button
one more time
[Dec. 10, 2004]
one-breath pundit
Poor Walter Olson, people keep mistaking the Editor of Overlawyered.com
for a lawyer, and now LegalAffairs has him listed among the candidates in
be the first to tell you that not being a lawyer may be one of the best ways
to be one of “the country’s most influential and important legal thinkers—
the ones whose ideas are pushing the law forward (or backward, as the case
may be).” You have until March 1, 2005 to submit your six choices.
Eugene Volokh routinely directs at their Bushism of the Day column?” We ask:
Why should they have to? Anyone who reads Slate‘s Bushism series knows
why they do it. Point-by-point refutation (often overkilling the topic and audience
to the point of mental numbness) is not going to change even one mind. It must
instead make the average reader say “I get it, I get it, I get it already, Eugene!”
