UW law professor receives grant for persuasive writing - Laramie Boomerang Online
Not only did he receive a grant, he made the fairly amazing statement in his interview that if something went to trial, that indicated a failure.
Well, in looking him up I noted that his actual years in private practice were exceedingly small, one of the problems I tend to have with academic lawyers. Perhaps he's done a lot of representation while a university professor, which quite a few university professors do, but still that comment is just flat out off the mark.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
The Casper Star Tribune Colunist Dan Molyneax
As I've criticized the Casper Star Tribune from time to time, I have to give it credit where credit is due. While I don't always agree with him (I think, for example, he's wrong on Putin), he writes well, clearly, and isn't afraid of stating opinions that most people hold to themselves out of fear of holding them, if they do. That columnist would be Dan Molyneaux.
Molyneax has guts. In the short time he's been writing he came out with an article sympathetic to the aims of Vladamir Putin, with a clear explanation of why he feels that way, he's criticized the common idolizing of John Wayne as a hero, and on a recent Sunday he declared that Islam is not a religion of peace. All pretty bold comments really from a print columnist in a local newspaper. Just taking on the odd memory people have of John Wayne as an American hero took guts I thought, and actually discussing the tenants of Islam at their written face value is very bold in the west. Having bold opinions is one thing, but actually stating them in the compressed amount of space a columnist has is quite another. Molyneaux actually manages that. And he doesn't do it in a superficial manner, in which some inflammatory national columnist do. Agree with him or disagree with him, he actually states a point and why he thinks what he does.
Again, I don't always agree with him, but I hope they keep him around. As I thought would be the case, one recent column will met with a lot of opposition, probably about 70% of it vitriolic and not bothering to actually address his points in their disagreement.. That's the risk of being a columnist in the age of the instant anonymous comment. I wouldn't read the comments if I were him, and I hope the Tribune doesn't regard them as a reason to set him aside.
Of interest, Molyneaux fits into the category of clergymen correspondents, something we tend not to see a great deal of now, but which were at one time quite common. In his case, he's an ordained Lutheran minister, which the Tribune used to note in its short note on his column, but no longer does. Anyhow, it's nice to see the Tribune have an articulate serious columnist, no matter what a person might think about any one of his particular columns.
Molyneax has guts. In the short time he's been writing he came out with an article sympathetic to the aims of Vladamir Putin, with a clear explanation of why he feels that way, he's criticized the common idolizing of John Wayne as a hero, and on a recent Sunday he declared that Islam is not a religion of peace. All pretty bold comments really from a print columnist in a local newspaper. Just taking on the odd memory people have of John Wayne as an American hero took guts I thought, and actually discussing the tenants of Islam at their written face value is very bold in the west. Having bold opinions is one thing, but actually stating them in the compressed amount of space a columnist has is quite another. Molyneaux actually manages that. And he doesn't do it in a superficial manner, in which some inflammatory national columnist do. Agree with him or disagree with him, he actually states a point and why he thinks what he does.
Again, I don't always agree with him, but I hope they keep him around. As I thought would be the case, one recent column will met with a lot of opposition, probably about 70% of it vitriolic and not bothering to actually address his points in their disagreement.. That's the risk of being a columnist in the age of the instant anonymous comment. I wouldn't read the comments if I were him, and I hope the Tribune doesn't regard them as a reason to set him aside.
Of interest, Molyneaux fits into the category of clergymen correspondents, something we tend not to see a great deal of now, but which were at one time quite common. In his case, he's an ordained Lutheran minister, which the Tribune used to note in its short note on his column, but no longer does. Anyhow, it's nice to see the Tribune have an articulate serious columnist, no matter what a person might think about any one of his particular columns.
Monday, July 20, 1914. The Kriegsmarine mobilizes.
Germany mobilized the Imperial German Navy and ordered shipping companies to withdraw from foreign ports and return to German ports.
Mobilizing navies is a difficult project, and was all the more difficult in the coal fired engine days. Coal had to be ordered, boilers for heavy ships, starated, ammunition properly stored and the mechanics of steel vessels fully readied.
Marcus Garvey, age 28, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association with Amy Ashwood, who would later become his first wife. The organization still exists.
The trial of Henriette Caillaux began in Paris, with the accused reportedly being kept in the same cell that had held the murdered Marie Antoinette.
Last edition:
Saturday, July 18, 1914. The sort of birth of the Air Force.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Aircraft, July Crisis, Labor unrest, Serbia, Signal Corps, U.S. Air Force, World War One
Friday, July 18, 2014
The Big Speech: Henry Fairlie's The Idiocy of Urban Life or The Cow's Revenge
The late Henry Fairlie was a British born essayist who wrote in the
New Republic. A man of biting wit, he wrote the following essay, which
is one of my favorites:
The Idiocy of Urban Life Or The Cow's Revenge.
Interesting reading, and a lot of interesting commentary in the article.
The Idiocy of Urban Life Or The Cow's Revenge.
Interesting reading, and a lot of interesting commentary in the article.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Saturday, July 18, 1914. The sort of birth of the Air Force.
Congress created the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, effectively creating what would become the Air Force.
Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić stated that he would not accept any measures that compromised Serbian sovereignty in reaction to rumors about an Austro Hungarian ultimatum.
King George inspected the fleet at Spithead.
Joe Hill, labor activist memorialized in a famous folk song, was sentenced o death under questionable circumstances in Utah.
Last edition:
Wednesday, July 15, 1914. Huerta resigns.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1920s, 1922, 1930s, 1932, Grigori Rasputin, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Personalities, Russia, Vera Cruz Mexico, Victoriano Huerta
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Wednesday, July 15, 1914. Huerta resigns.
Victoriano Huerta resigned as president of Mexico and left for Vera Cruz and exile. Francisco S. Carvajal became interim president.
Carvajal
Carvajal was a lawyer and government official whose position was merely transitional. After completing it, which took a month, he left for the United States where he married. He returned to Mexico in 1922, resuming his prior occupation of lawyer, and died in 1932 at age 61.
Rasputin was declared out of danger. He had, as readers will be recalled, been stabbed by a female assailant earlier in 1914.
Last edition:
Tuesday, July 14, 1914. Bastille Day.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Austro Hungaria, Bastille Day, France, Germany, Holidays, Hungary, Ireland, July Crisis, Northern Ireland, Serbia, Ulster, United Kingdom, World War One
Monday, July 14, 2014
Seriously, Stop Refrigerating These Foods - Reviewed.com Refrigerators
Seriously, Stop Refrigerating These Foods - Reviewed.com Refrigerators
Okay, well off our typical subjects. . .
Or maybe not. There are a fair number of things that need not be refrigerated, but people do anyway, reflecting a change in habits over time. Interesting how refrigeration has affected our diets, and habits.
Okay, well off our typical subjects. . .
Or maybe not. There are a fair number of things that need not be refrigerated, but people do anyway, reflecting a change in habits over time. Interesting how refrigeration has affected our diets, and habits.
Tuesday, July 14, 1914. Bastille Day.
The Government of Ireland Bill passed the House of Lord, allowing Ulster counties to vote on whether they wished to participate in Home Rule from Dublin.
Hungarian Prime Minister István Tisza, who had opposed going to war with Serbia, changed his view out of fear that if Austro Hungaria did not do so it would result in a breach of the alliance with Germany.
It was Bastille Day.
Last edition:
Monday, July 13, 1914. Austrians conclude no Serbian involvement.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Austro Hungaria, Canadian Arctic Expedition, Education, July Crisis, Ohio, Serbia, Weather, World War One
Sunday, July 13, 2014
The Big Picture: Labor Party Convention, November 22, 1919
First national Labor Party convention, November 22, 1919. This photos is illustrative of the rise of socialist parties in the United States in the early 20th Century.
Monday, July 13, 1914. Austrians conclude no Serbian involvement.
An Austrian investigation into the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand concluded that there was little evidence to support Serbian government involvement in his murder.
Captain Robert Bartlett departed from Alaska on the Bear for Wrangle Island to rescue the Canadian Arctic Expedition. Only fourteen survivors then existed.
Kent State Normal School, summer session, 1914.
Last edition:
Sunday, July 12, 1914. Mehmedbašić arrested.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Albania, Arkansas, Crime, July Crisis, Labor unrest, Personalities, Serbia, World War One
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Sunday, July 12, 1914. Mehmedbašić arrested.
Muhamed Mehmedbašić, whom is generally forgotten, was apprehended for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was one of the principal planner of the killing plot. A Muslim, he lived a complicated life supporting Serbian independence.
Mehmedbašić in 1943.
He escaped from prison two days later in circumstances that remain suspicious, remained involved, perhaps, in various movements, and was killed by the Ustaše in 1943, showing perhaps that he remained a significant figure in some ways.
Albanian rebels captured Berat.
Shots were fired at the homes of striking miners in Hartford, Arkansas, causing them to riot thereafter.
Last edition:
Saturday, July 11, 1914. Babe Ruth premiers, as does the USS Nevada.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1940s, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, Anarchy, baseball, boats and ships, Diplomacy, Germany, Iwo Jima, July Crisis, Okinawa, Operation Dragoon, Serbia, U.S. Navy, World War One, World War Two
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