"Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld Yesterday evening, as Peg was immersed in planning for the furnishing of the new Manhattan apartment (it's so small I figure she's given several minutes of her attention per square foot on the subject), I was reading an online essay that casually dropped a quote from one of my favorite little books, La Rouchefoucauld's Maxims: "Hypo

"Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.'" -Jim Inhofe Jim, you may want to come out here to the street and take a look at the sky. Or I reckon you could just peek out the window from here inside the condo right now. I guess the good news is that all this particulate has driven down the temperatures a bit. We hit 100 degrees in Corning on Tuesday, the second time w

“About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up. ” ―Elihu Root Without really knowing much about Elihu Root, I put that quote on the back of the t-shirt we gave away to runners in the annual Bay County Bar Association Race Judicata. I was the chair for three or four years early in my legal career. I guess my jaundiced eye toward the role played by our profession was obvious even then. Lately I've been watch

"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator." -Confucius This blog has become sort of vapid, hasn't it? I mean, what insights emerge here (as if they ever did)? Yesterday I turned 62. I've been in sort of an anhedonic grump for a while now, and P was determined that a trip to Manhattan might pull me out of this funk. Returning to the recent site of a