Chat G. P. Tea, Attorney at Law
November 7, 2026
A real lawyer is better than a law machine. Accept no substitute. … More Chat G. P. Tea, Attorney at Law
Category: Brave New World
Time Famine
January 1, 2026
It’s New Years again. The odometer of our lives rolls over and there doesn’t seem to be anyway to slow it down or stop it. The brake pedal has gone spongey and the accelerator is stuck. We never have enough time. Instead, we live in a time famine. I sense someone has hit the fast … More Time Famine
John Hartman Patterson: The Dude Abides
January 19, 2025
Whatever you do, don’t work the middle school dance night. … More John Hartman Patterson: The Dude Abides
There is Refuge in the Road
November 13, 2022
Pete Patterson finds Refuge in the Road. Lawyers Road Review is now a book. … More There is Refuge in the Road
September 11 Remembrance
September 11, 2022
I stumbled upon this photograph I had taken as a boy scout on Jamboree. The Trade Towers still were under construction in 1973 and now they are gone. Gone too it seems is the sense of a cohesive America we felt at that time. … More September 11 Remembrance
Judgment at Kyiv
May 8, 2022
War crimes are back, this time in living color. I take the anniversary of Germany’s surrender in WWII to highlight how far we have come to a well developed international justice system to deal timely these crimes. … More Judgment at Kyiv
2020 Vision
January 1, 2021
Hindsight is 2020, literally. What was that all about anyway? I mean who woke up on New Years Day 2020 mindful there would be a pandemic, rioting in the streets, Seattle downtown destroyed and abandoned, food shortages and more people passing away daily due to disease than we thought possible in the modern era? Not … More 2020 Vision
New Superhero: Maxine Vaxine
December 20, 2020
Late one night Karen is toiling away at the lab. Her instructions are to work as many hours as necessary to find some means of inoculating people from the Covid-19 Virus. She overhears a broadcast repeating President Trumps call to inject disinfectants to the body or use light waves to kill the virus . What … More New Superhero: Maxine Vaxine
Self Drive, Drive Self
August 9, 2020
Thesis: For self driving cars to work, everyone must use them such that the software can adequately predict the behavior of other vehicles. No exceptions. This requires a wholesale change of our American concept of Liberty, resembles the promises of a utopian world that always seems to degenerate into totalitarianism, and Americans are not … More Self Drive, Drive Self
Hey Nineteen
May 24, 2020
I thought I was terribly clever thinking about this Steely Dan song from my youth when ever I thought about the pandemic. Of course, there are those who are more clever, and certainly talented. So here something better than I could possibly have created. Right, we can’t dance together. Say it again.
