“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” — Mark Twain “Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” — Joseph Conrad The website’s name is so fitting for the article that grabbed my eye: Jezebel. My card-carrying feminist friends share Jezebel stuff on Facebook almost…
At 9:17am on August 27, 1998, the following verbal exchange took place as part of a three-day deposition in United States v. Microsoft Corp. The deposition has since become a case study in obfuscatory testimonial evasion, and it was so painfully awkward and tedious that it elicited laughs from the presiding judge when the videotaped interview was…
“The publication in this issue of the research paper…marks the end of more than 8 months of widely reported controversy over whether some of the data now freely accessible should be withheld in the public interest. As a result, people worldwide are now much more aware of the potential threat that this virus, commonly known…
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk.” – Earnest Hemingway It was at my department’s Christmas party last year that a colleague told me about an event in Key West known as “Hemingway Days,” a week-long celebration of the birth of America’s manliest modern author and one of the most interesting men…
“How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!…thou wast slain in thine high places. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!” – 2 Samuel 1:25 & 27 As we sit back and watch the Iberian Peninsula get manhandled by northern Europe and one of the only two South American…