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Kavanaugh and our future

I don’t know what’s going to happen in our fairly immediate future. So I was glad to see three opinion pieces in the Times this morning which cover the full variety of my feelings, thoughts and questions about this future. … Continue reading

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The best op piece today: “Why Mistranslation Matters”

In the New York Times (last page opinion section — it should have been more to the front) Mark Polizzotti tells a couple of stories that really startled me. Brace yourselves, because our knowledge about famous statements is wrong. For … Continue reading

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So why are legal documents such lousy reads?

With a bravura quote from the Marx Brothers, I begin an interesting take from a legal genius on why we non-lawyers find it so impossible to read legal documents. Continue reading

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