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Saturday, August 07, 2004



Frightening : am I doomed to spend every single night thinking about something intelligent to say, to finally realize the vacuum in my head?
Remember the Moral of the Story
Cass Sunstein returns to the liberal's liberal, FDR, and recommends a new bill of rights to fight terror Time For A Global Bill Of Rights


Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Lawyers: Beware of the Blog!
Michael Jackson has one. Martha Stewart paid top dollar for hers. And the Justice Department got one as a gift in its antitrust trial against Oracle Corp.
Web sites dedicated to a specific trial are ushering in a new era of client service, said Denise M. Howell, a Web log booster and intellectual property litigator who is of counsel to the Los Angeles office of Reed Smith.
Not only is it critical to know who will try your case. It's important to consider who will 'blog' it.
The Web log that sparked Howell's enthusiasm is devoted to a civil case, the Department of Justice's antitrust action against Oracle in San Francisco.

New York Lawyer It takes all types, literally [Not all political blogs need to be all blog things Walk the Line ]
• · The John Kerry campaign has been uncharacteristically steamy recently, even the Queer Eye guys are going, Get a room!: Hugs, kisses to the cheek, affectionate touching of the face, caressing of the back, grabbing of the arm, fingers to the neck, rubbing of the knees... [ N for Nader: R is for reverse. And D is for drive. America, we must get out of reverse and move into drive. The leadership team of John Kerry and John Edwards is the perfect vehicle to move us forward]
• · · Political blog watch: There were two groups of Media Dragons ...The in-blog and out-blog crowds [The world's first and only pari-mutuel blog Poolitics.com offers ideologues of all stripes and colors the ability to put their money where their mouth is by entering real-money predictive contests (Pools) ]
• · · · Political junkies seeking a steady morphine drip of facts, innuendo and rumour could ... click-and-dance from blog to blog until their eyeballs turned dry
• · · · · Ach, Kanada and its Shawinigen handshake: Living in interesting times: The Canadian election and its meaning
• · · · · · · Let's Rock the Boat: That is the kind of America that I will lead as president: an America where we are all in the same boat