Originally posted on Lawyers Road Review:
In a sure sign of spring, the swallows have returned to the parking garage at the Ballard Safeway. Swooping in in and out of the underside of the supermarket, they noisily nest in the asbestos coating the garage roof provides. In doing so they kick bits of the cancer…
Originally posted on On Wholesome Ground :
I want to drive around in a 5 window truck in my hometown and pay cash for everything. I want a world that moves slower. I want the rules to be straightforward and easy to understand. I want to pay my taxes and trust government to use the money right. I…
Originally posted on On Wholesome Ground :
Some red flag flies for me when I hear the term “trending”. It seems so fabricated, so meritless, so banal, and yet we have persons who hold our attention just because all of us look to the celebrity of them. This is by design. Part of what made Adolf Hitler…
Originally posted on markpattersonlaw:
Susie Orman has a television show. She gives financial advice. Now she is giving legal advise, and she lacks a license to do so. She must be stopped. I have seen her on television telling everyone in America they want to avoid probate by putting everything they own and ever will…
The Christmas season has brought back the ghost of Christmas Visitation Disputes Past. Burned in the memory is the Dad who demanded both Christmas eve and Christmas Day, typically treated as two holidays legally in the family law business. His claim: “Do you know what happens on Christmas morning?” No I have never been there. “She” … More Same as It Ever Was; Postscript
What is interesting abut this story is the profession of the victim is identified, rather than it just being a reference to another mugging.
Originally posted on On Wholesome Ground :
The American television is awash with programs recalling the events of World War One. I suppose we should expect this, given that the war started 100 years ago this past August. In England Remembrance is not a passing event. I happened to be in England for Remembrance Day a…
Originally posted on markpattersonlaw:
It is extraordinary how many people come into my office believing the oldest son somehow has some inherent right to govern the estate of the parents. Being a lawyer, I start looking for authority for this rule. I start with Exodus 13- The Lord said to Moses, “Set apart for me…
The Longest Day was released in 1962, scarcely 18 years after the event. Like most of the WWII films of the 1960’s era, the screenplay seems to require that the actors recite the facts of how the soldiers seem to be there along with the strategic and political complexities of the day, all stated in … More D-Day in Film- Part One- Speeches on the Beaches
There was a Demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged the Demon would die. Men came to the high desert to ride it. They were called “test pilots.” And no one knew their names. The Right Stuff- Warner Brothers 1984 Should you desire that sense again of anonymous heroism captured in the … More Rebecca Wallick Has The Right Stuff-Growing Up Boeing
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