There are plenty of good changes in the new whitehouse.gov site, such as a better copyright policy that enables clearer copying and remix, and a much shorter robots.txt file, which makes it easier for search engines and archivists to index and archive the site. (Compare the current 4-line Obama robots file to a 2300+ version […]
For Battlestar fans, this episode answers a lot of questions. I’ve already watched it twice and I’m still not sure I caught everything. Some spoilerish musings after the break, below the episode.
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Some other comments on Lincoln. This week, a Civ Pro profs listserve distributed the text of notes apparently prepared by Lincoln for a lecture at the Ohio State & Union Law School in Cleveland in 1856. Many of Lincoln’s observations are as timely today as they were over 150 years ago. Below, I add headings; also, the order of the paragraphs is rearranged and some paragraphs are combined into single paragraphs to correspond to their relevant heading.
Lincoln on Humility and Success
I am not an accomplished lawyer. I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
Lincoln on Lawyers and their Image of Dishonesty
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief — resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.
In connection with this week’s bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, U.S. News and World Report has a great article on Lincoln’s interest in technology such as the telegraph. Suggests the article, were Lincoln alive today, “he would fight just as hard to keep his BlackBerry as President Barack Obama did.” Also turns out that Lincoln […]
