To commemorate the first moon landing 40 years ago the NY Times ran a story about the 6% of people who believe the moon landings were a hoax. They share a warped gene with those who believe the World Trade Center fell in a controlled explosion secretly planned and executed by the U.S. government. The [...]
We returned from the bike trip yesterday. The country around Lake Champlain is beautiful, we had favorable weather, the biking was challenging and fun, and the eight of us had a great time–after a sobering start. Details to follow after I catch up on mail. Sphere: Related Content Related posts Uphill (0) Sign of the [...]
I’m leaving in about 20 minutes for this year’s bike trip. Over the past three summers we rode from Pueblo, CO to Florence, Oregon in three stages. This trip is more modest, a circumnavigation of Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. We drive to Burlington this evening, bike Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and half of [...]
Preparing for the law and ethics course I am teaching later this summer I Googled “How Good People Make Tough Choices” to find the link on the Institute for Global Ethics site where students can download an excerpt. Google listed it as the fifth primary link–immediately after the link to a web site offering for [...]
Information overload is a fact of 21st-century life. I realize how boring my email is during the summer, when student emails cease and my inbox is dominated by news, cultural, commercial, and social networking alerts, with the occasional email from a friend for relief. This morning I wielded a meat cleaver to my email subscriptions, [...]
The recession has whacked salaries of associates of big law firms, but has not reduced the disparity in starting associate salaries according to Study Shows Sharp Disparities in Law Associate Compensation. The study is based on 2008 starting salaries. Since 2000 starting associate salaries abandoned a bell-curve distribution for a distribution with two peaks. The [...]