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Midweek Music Moment: Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, Bill Evans Trio

Today’s music moment comes about only because of today’s news. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961, the outstanding performance by the Bill Evans Trio, is one of 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry.

In making the announcement, the Library of Congress said the five sets the trio performed on June 25, 1961, “are […]

How (not) to teach ethics and integrity

Maybe this is an old fart rant or another display of naïveté but some things really do outrage me. The latest is the NYT article about at least one law school applying “do as I say, not as I do” to ethics and honesty.

According to the article, Loyola Law School Los Angeles is “retroactively […]

Maybe this justifies the cost of an e-reader

Some may recall that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter bought a new home when he retired because the farmhouse he lived in wasn’t structurally strong enough to hold the thousands of books he owned. One of his former law clerks took steps to perhaps stop the problem from recurring.

According to annual financial […]

Weekend Edition: 6-19

Blog Headline of the Week (and strong contender for WTF? story of the week year)

Man Taunts Hells Angel Gang Members, Throws Puppy At Them, and Escapes on Stolen Bulldozer

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

What you talk about when you talk about not having time to read (“I refuse to believe people don’t […]

Friday Follies 2.19

Florida attorney barred from visiting client in jail both with and without bra.

A 34-year-old Nevada woman was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of lewdness with a minor under 14 after kissing a friend’s 13-year-old child, putting his hand on her breast, and offering to have sex with him. She was wearing […]