In-House Counsel

It has an officious tone, an imperious that puts me off. Beating hearts and thinking brains are within, yet the clammy, 1984-ish ?The Office? may or may not oblige your obsequies. I like flesh and blood (See my post of July 20, 2008: do not describe colleagues as ?resources?.) and I do not like the pall of a Wizard of Oz omnisciently making decisions behind the curtain.

The Office of the General Counsel is written about in bureaucratese, full of passives and nominalizations. I like I. I like the buck stops here, on a real human?s desk. I don?t like the Mandarin fuzziness of an administrative term. Nor would Kafka.

But perhaps the Office of the Blogger is too subtle?