Personal Injury Law

Thursday Morning Lazarus

Posted on March 27, 2008
How Long?by Emma LazarusHow long, and yet how long,Our leaders will we hail from over seas,Master and kings from feudal monarchies,And mock their ancient songWith echoes weak of foreign melodies?That distant isle mist-wreathed,Mantled in unimaginable green,Too long hath been our mistress and our queen...

Wednesday Morning Sappho

Posted on March 26, 2008
?He?s equal with the Gods, that man?by Sappho He?s equal with the Gods, that man Who sits across from you, Face to face, close enough, to sip Your voice?s sweetness, And what excites my mind, Your laughter, glittering...

"I think we've got a bunch of thugs down there, if I may be permitted to say so."

Posted on March 26, 2008
Flashiebackie--An assortment of aging hippies, dopers and their assorted fry attempt to recreate the peak experience of their increasingly meaningless and irrelevant lives by pretending to go back in time to Chicago, 1968. Their web site tells us:DNC Disruption 08 is an online clearinghouse for radical and progressive groups organizing against the Democratic National Convention...

Global Warming Update XI

Posted on March 26, 2008
We're all for saving money, and we're not above going green if that's what it takes to pocket a few extra shekels. So, it doesn't bother us to use compact fluorescent light bulbs around Casa de los Perros Grandes wherever possible.Of course, the CFLs don't actually live up to their hype...

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Tuesday Afternoon Burns

Posted on March 25, 2008
Lines Written On A Banknoteby Robert BurnsWae worth thy power, thou cursed leaf!Fell source o' a' my woe and grief!For lack o' thee I've lost my lass!For lack o' thee I scrimp my glass!I see the children of afflictionUnaided, through thy curst restriction:I've seen the oppressor's cruel smileAmid his hapless victim's spoil;And for thy potence vainly wished,To crush the villain in the dust:For lack o' thee, I leave this much-lov'd shore,Never, perhaps, to greet old Scotland more.

Google Factoid Watch Update

Posted on March 25, 2008
At 11:34 a.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a Google search for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick returns about 621,000 results.A Google search for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Democrat returns about 213,000 results.

Compare and Contrast

Posted on March 24, 2008
Over at The Objective Standard, Mr. John David Lewis reflects on his recent vesit to Georgia Tech. We thought a few lines about the question and answer period would be worth quoting:The onslaught began with the first ?question,? actually a monologue that lasted nearly fifteen minutes...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on March 24, 2008
At 11:12 p.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a Google search for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Democrat returns about 180,000 results.

Monday Night Wilde

Posted on March 24, 2008
Greeceby Oscar WildeThe sea was sapphire coloured, and the skyBurned like a heated opal through the air;We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fairFor the blue lands that to the eastward lie.From the steep prow I marked with quickening eyeZakynthos, every olive grove and creek,Ithaca's cliff, Lycaon's snowy peak,And all the flower-strewn hills of Arcady...

Sunday Night Anonymoose (redux)

Posted on March 23, 2008
Cuckoo Songby Anonymous ca. 1250SUMER is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu!Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu-- Sing cuccu!Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu;Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, Murie sing cuccu!Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu: Ne swike thu naver nu;Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu, Sing cuccu, sing cuccu, nu!

Saturday Afternoon Whitman

Posted on March 22, 2008
Singing In Springby Walt WhitmanThese I, singing in spring, collect for lovers:For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?And who but I should be the poet of comrades?Collecting, I traverse the garden, the world--but soon I pass the gates,Now along the pond-side--now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,Now by the post-and-rail fences, where the old stones thrown there, picked from the fields, have accumulated,Wild flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones, and partly cover them--Beyond these I pass,Far, far in the forest, before I think where I go,Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence;Alone, I had thought--yet soon a silent troop gathers around me;Some walk by my side, and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,They, the spirits of friends, dead or alive--thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,Collecting, dispensing, singing in spring, there I wander with them,Plucking something for tokens--tossing toward whoever is near me...

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

Posted on March 22, 2008
Today's paper carries encouraging news for the yokels of rural Shawnee County, Kan.:Daily Dose: County has funds to repair sirensThe Capital-JournalPublished Saturday, March 22, 2008Money to repair two sirens that failed to sound during last week's tornado drill is available in Shawnee County Emergency Management's budget...

Friday Morning Robinson

Posted on March 21, 2008
Richard Coryby Edwin Arlington RobinsonWhenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the pavement looked at him:He was a gentleman from sole to crown,Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed,And he was always human when he talked;But still he fluttered pulses when he said,"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked...

Friday Night Shakespeare

Posted on March 21, 2008
19by William Shakespeare Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood, Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, And burn the long-lived phoenix, in her blood, Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st, And do whate'er thou wilt swift-footed Time To the wide world and all her fading sweets: But I forbid thee one most heinous crime, O carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow, Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen, Him in thy course untainted do allow, For beauty's pattern to succeeding men...

Drink! Drink! Drink!

Posted on March 21, 2008
Although we don't endorse the behavior paraded in this video, we decided we were in need of some cheering up after the last couple of posts. (See below.) So, we looked on YouTube, and there it was: The clip, of course, is from The Student Prince, a 1954 MGM film starring Edmond Purdom and Ann Blyth...

Thursday Morning Schiller

Posted on March 20, 2008
TO THE SPRINGby Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou! With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome now! Aha!--and thou returnest, Heartily we greet thee-- The loving and the fair one, Merrily we meet thee! Think'st thou of my maiden In thy heart of glee? I love her yet, the maiden-- And the maiden yet loves me! For the maiden, many a blossom I begged--and not in vain! I came again a-begging, And thou--thou givest again: Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou-- With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome now!

Vicki Van Meter, R.I.P.

Posted on March 20, 2008
Every now and then, we cross paths with a person who simultaneously needs legal work done and has mental health issues. The two are not necessarily related, but it's happened often enough that we've wondered whether being insane might not be a reason for hiring us in the first place...

Wednesday Morning Blake

Posted on March 19, 2008
To Springby William BlakeO THOU with dewy locks, who lookest downThrough the clear windows of the morning, turnThine angel eyes upon our western isle,Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!The hills tell one another, and the listeningValleys hear; all our longing eyes are turn'dUp to thy bright pavilions: issue forthAnd let thy holy feet visit our clime!Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our windsKiss thy perfumed garments; let us tasteThy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearlsUpon our lovesick land that mourns for thee...

It All Fits Together

Posted on March 19, 2008
The blogresses at one of our favorite lefty sites, In This Moment, have been sorting out what happened at the Democratic Party caucuses in Texas:Did bands of unruly kids act as thugs for Obama in the Texas caucuses? Does Obama win caucuses in general because his supporters threaten defenseless, cowering Clintonites? That is the accusation included in comments on a post by my co-blogger Nancy Jane Moore...

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, R.I.P.

Posted on March 18, 2008
From the eponymous web site: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Dies Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died Wednesday at age 90, an associate confirmed...

Tuesday Morning Spenser

Posted on March 18, 2008
Easterby Edmund Spenser MOST glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;And, having harrowd hell, didst bring awayCaptivity thence captive, us to win:This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin;And grant that we, for whom thou diddest dye,Being with Thy deare blood clene washt from sin,May live for ever in felicity!And that Thy love we weighing worthily,May likewise love Thee for the same againe;And for Thy sake, that all lyke deare didst buy,With love may one another entertayne! So let us love, deare Love, lyke as we ought, --Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Urban Legend Comes to Life

Posted on March 18, 2008
We've been wondering: Do the voices ever tell people to pay their taxes and drive at the posted speed limit, but we just don't hear about it? Nah.From Galveston, Tex.:Defense Attorney: Client Put Infant in Microwave for ProtectionLast Edited: Thursday, 13 Mar 2008, 6:00 PM CDTCreated: Thursday, 13 Mar 2008, 11:23 AM CDTJoshua Mauldin remains in jail on felony charges of child endangerment for allegedly microwaving his baby...

On the other hand...

Posted on March 18, 2008
Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona) stopped in Israel on the way home from Iraq Tuesday, where he made some comments not likely to be reported by the Obama campaign machine American media. The Jerusalem Post has an exclusive:Mar 19, 2008 0:25 | Updated Mar 19, 2008 2:28'Islamists want to destroy everything the West holds dear'By HERB KEINON AND DAVID HOROVITZThe success of Hamas and Hizbullah in the region is not only a danger for Israel, but also a threat to US national interests, US Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post...

Monday Night Herbert

Posted on March 17, 2008
Easterby George HerbertI GOT me flowers to straw Thy way,I got me boughs off many a tree;But Thou wast up by break of day,And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.Yet though my flowers be lost, they sayA heart can never come too late;Teach it to sing Thy praise this day,And then this day my life shall date.

Not a Problem, for a Democrat

Posted on March 17, 2008
New York's governor makes a startling admission:The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago...

Is it OK for a candidate for President of the United States to associate with racists, felons and America-Haters?

Posted on March 16, 2008
Newsbusters.org thinks the Associated Press thinks so:The AP Style Guide on Defending Barack ObamaBy Terry Trippany | March 15, 2008 - 11:21 ET The Associated Press editors tasked in-house "writer" Phillip Elliott to write an article that dispels the "rumors and outright lies" concerning Barack Obama and the perception that Mr...

Sunday Night Kipling

Posted on March 16, 2008
The Deep-Sea Cablesby Rudyard KiplingThe wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar --Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are.There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep,Or the great gray level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep...

Naomh Pádraig

Posted on March 15, 2008
Here at West Neanderthal Drive, we observe, but don't celebrate, the Feast of Saint Patrick. We claim Irish descent on our mom's side, but we don't have much to show for it, other than a penchant for depressing harp music and a relationship with alcohol that ended in about 1984...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on March 15, 2008
At 10:52 p.m., Central U.S. Daylight Time, a Google search for the text "B-O" returns about 391,000,000 results. A Google search for the expression "B-H-O" returns about 4,910,000 results.

Saturday Night Masahide

Posted on March 15, 2008
Barn's Burnt Downby Mizuto MasahideBarn's burnt downNowI can see the moon.

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