Category Archives: Lawyers

“What the world needs now, is…”

Lawyers. Very very smart lawyers. Very very smart lawyers in Congress because, you know, it’s legislators who write the laws to advance policies and seal up holes in our foundation, and the people who know how to do that are … Continue reading

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I voted early. Here’s what I didn’t vote for

Not “who” I didn’t vote for, but what. As always, innundated with campaign brochures — my Congressional district has lots of people on the ballot — I developed a way of absorbing and evaluating certain attributes and ideas of candidates … Continue reading

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A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!

Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading

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