Personal Injury Law

Friday Night Shakespeare

Posted on March 14, 2008
18 by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Thursday Morning Wordsworth

Posted on March 13, 2008
Daffodilsby William WordsworthI WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way,They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance...

A Question for Prof. Khan

Posted on March 13, 2008
Internet Hagganah emails the following:Iranian student group offers reward for killing Israeli officials The Iranian "Movement of Students for Pursuing Justice" is offering rewards for the killing of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad director Meir Dagan, and military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin...

Thursday Night Browne

Posted on March 13, 2008
The Sirens' Songby William Browne, of TavistockSTEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners!Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers--Perfumes far sweeter than the bestWhich make the Phoenix' urn and nest. Fear not your ships,Nor any to oppose you save our lips; But come on shore,Where no joy dies till Love hath gotten more...

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The Mysterious East

Posted on March 11, 2008
We have no idea what this is about, but we think it's cool anyway:2008?3?8? ????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????More of same, including inexplicable charts, lives here.

Sunday Night Burns

Posted on March 09, 2008
Farewell To Elizaby Robert Burnsto the tune of "Gilderoy."From thee, Eliza, I must go,And from my native shore;The cruel fates between us throwA boundless ocean's roar:But boundless oceans, roaring wide,Between my love and me,They never, never can divideMy heart and soul from thee...

Again, the Mists of Memory

Posted on March 08, 2008
Fact is, after we quit drinking in 1984, this song lost much of its appeal for us. It's still worth a look, particularly for saxophone fetishists or anyone too young to remember Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys.This particular video is by the band Traffic, recorded in Santa Monica, CA, in 1972.

The Problem with Mrs. Obama

Posted on March 08, 2008
Over at Global Politician, the curiously-named Mr. Guy White offers this contribution to the "debate on race":The Darker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice: Black Racism, Part IGuy White - 3/9/2008Accusations of white racism are rampant, with the topic of race turning immediately to the alleged hate deep in the heart of every white person...

Saturday Night Longfellow

Posted on March 08, 2008
HERMES TRISMEGISTUSby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAs Seleucus narrates, Hermes describes the principles that rank as wholes in two myriads of books; or, as we are informed by Manetho, he perfectly unfolded these principles in three myriads six thousand five hundred and twenty-five volumes...

Wednesday Afternoon Norton

Posted on March 05, 2008
I do not love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton.I DO not love thee!--no! I do not love thee!And yet when thou art absent I am sad;And envy even the bright blue sky above thee,Whose quiet stars may see thee and be glad.I do not love thee!--yet, I know not why,Whate'er thou dost seems still well done, to me:And often in my solitude I sighThat those I do love are not more like thee!I do not love thee!--yet, when thou art gone,I hate the sound (though those who speak be dear)Which breaks the lingering echo of the toneThy voice of music leaves upon my ear...

Google Factoid Watch Update

Posted on March 05, 2008
At 10:18 p.m., Central U.S. Time, a Google search for the phrase "blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage" returns about 2,050 results.

The Art Scene

Posted on March 05, 2008
We certainly don't advocate any of the behavior paraded in this item. Not the basic premise (that Mrs. Clinton has been "assassinated", whatever that means), not the idea that it would be a good idea if it actually happened, and certainly not the idea of the famously depraved New York art world in general...

The Mysterious North

Posted on March 04, 2008
Life imitates a B. Kliban cartoon in this tale of metrication gone amok:Investigators seek leg-up in mystery feet caseGerry Bellett , Canwest News ServicePublished: Friday, February 15, 2008VANCOUVER - A U.S. expert on ocean currents says mysterious right feet washing up on the islands off B...

Tuesday Night Wordsworth

Posted on March 04, 2008
Evening on Calais Beachby William WordsworthIT is a beauteous evening, calm and free,The holy time is quiet as a NunBreathless with adoration; the broad sunIs sinking down in its tranquillity;The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea:Listen! the mighty Being is awake,And doth with his eternal motion makeA sound like thunder--everlastingly...

Monday Night Sappho

Posted on March 03, 2008
Fragmentby SapphoLove shook my heart,Like the wind on the mountainTroubling the oak-trees.

Liaquat Ali Khan Watch

Posted on March 03, 2008
Professor Liaquat Ali Khan says what he thinks. Again. This time, about Pakistan's role in the war on terror: The September 11 attacks provided the perfect occasion for the United States to issue ?with them or with us? threats to Pakistan that had given birth to the Taliban phenomenon in hopes of fomenting terrorism against India...

Sunday Morning Chaucer (maybe)

Posted on March 02, 2008
Merciles Beauteby Geoffrey Chaucer (maybe)A TRIPLE ROUNDEL1. CAPTIVITYYOUR eyen two wol slee me sodenly,I may the beaute of hem not sustene,So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.And but your word wol helen hastilyMy hertes wounde, whyl that hit is grene, Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beaute of hem not sustene...

Google Factoid Watch

Posted on March 01, 2008
At 9:45 p.m., Central U.S. Time, a Google search for the phrase,"I snort the nose, Lucifer" returns about 46 results. A Google search for the phrase, "Devil bunnies! I snort the nose, Lucifer! Banana! Banana!" returns one result.

Saturday Morning Browning (Mrs.)

Posted on March 01, 2008
Vby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningI lift my heavy heart up solemnly,As once Electra her sepulchral urn,And, looking in thine eyes, I over-turnThe ashes at thy feet. Behold and seeWhat a great heap of grief lay hid in me,And how the red wild sparkles dimly burnThrough the ashen greyness...

A New Martha Mitchell

Posted on March 01, 2008
"Out of the fullness of the heart, the tongue speaks."Mrs. Obama has been saying what she thinks again, this time to an audience of hoi polloi at a daycare center in Zanesville, Ohio. IBD comments:First Lady Of GaffesBy INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 4:20 PM PTElection '08: After revealing she had never been "really proud of my country," Michelle Obama damns business as "the money-making industry...

More Good Noose from Iraq

Posted on February 29, 2008
And another one... 'Chemical Ali' execution OK'd in Iraq By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 56 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Iraq's presidential council has endorsed the execution within a month of Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," for his role in the 1980s scorched-earth campaign against Kurds, officials said Friday...

Friday Night Shakespeare

Posted on February 29, 2008
17 by William ShakespeareWho will believe my verse in time to comeIf it were filled with your most high deserts?Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tombWhich hides your life, and shows not half your parts:If I could write the beauty of your eyes,And in fresh numbers number all your graces,The age to come would say this poet lies,Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces...

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle update

Posted on February 28, 2008
From the incredible Matt Drudge comes this indication that maybe Britain isn't completely over after all: PRINCE HARRY FIGHTS ON FRONTLINES IN AFGHANISTAN; 3 MONTH TOURThu Feb 28 2008 11:01:34 ET**World Exclusive**They're calling him "Harry the Hero!"British Royal Prince Harry has been fighting in Afghanistan since late December -- and has been directly involved in gun battle, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned...

Thursday Morning Jonson

Posted on February 28, 2008
OF LIFE AND DEATHby Ben JonsonThe ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds:Through which our merit leads us to our meeds.How wilful blind is he, then, that would stray,And hath it in his powers to make his way!This world death?s region is, the other life?s:And here it should be one of our first strifes,So to front death, as men might judge us past it:For good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Gee, Y'think?

Posted on February 28, 2008
From the post-racial Nirvana of the United Kingdom, where there are no racial troubles at all. None. Not a bit of it. Really.From Times OnlineFebruary 28, 2008Obama victory will prolong US racial divide, says British equality chief Trevor Phillipsby Hannah StrangeOne of Britain?s most influential black figures today accused Barack Obama of cynically exploiting America?s racial divide and gave warning that he could prolong, rather than heal the rift...

"The Justice of Roosting Chickens"

Posted on February 28, 2008
Ms. Taylor Marsh ("The antidote to right-wing talk") raises an interesting question about Sen. Barack Obama (Democrat, IL) and his connections with unreconstructed Pentagon bomber and University of Illinois education professor William Ayers, seen at left in a 1968 photo from the Chicago Police Department:This is the vein in the Democratic party I will never understand, cannot accept on any level...

Tuesday Night Service

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Woman and the AngelBy Robert W. ServiceAn angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street;His halo was tilted sideways, and his harp lay mute at his feet;So the Master stooped in His pity, and gave him a pass to go,For the space of a moon, to the earth-world, to mix with the men below...

So?

Posted on February 26, 2008
The American tradition of politicians humiliating themselves as part of the electoral process goes back to the earliest days of the Republic. Farther than that, in fact, although Shakespeare's Coriolanus didn't handle it nearly as well as our modern pols...

Monday Morning Teasdale

Posted on February 25, 2008
A WINTER BLUEJAYby Sara TeasdaleCRISPLY the bright snow whispered,Crunching beneath our feet;Behind us as we walked along the parkway,Our shadows danced,Fantastic shapes in vivid blue.Across the lake the skatersFlew to and fro,With sharp turns weavingA frail invisible net...

Professor Khan Speaks

Posted on February 25, 2008
We've always had a great deal of respect for Professor Liaquat Ali Khan, ever since he spoke for two hours without notes, repetition, deviation or hesitation to the 1L class on our first day at Washburn. We suspect that his writings are not widely known in our town, and we'd like to see that change...

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