Compulsively Aimless

As a lead up to the celebration of our America’s 250th birthday, I attended a conference on one of our lesser known but important founding documents the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Related to that, sharing some beautiful artwork that was created to mark its 150th anniversary. Have a look at these first day envelopes issued by the US Postal Service from 1937.

  Jigsaw Memory You’re in someone’s memory  but they’re not in yours  Contrarwise  --someone is in your memory,  but you’re not in theirs  like a stranger’s photo  you may live on forever in the background  without intention.                    The Reasonable Person (for the lawyer-poets) Once upon a time in the 18th century The law invented the reasonable man. He was neither a saint nor a fool  neither genius nor an imbecile neither paranoid nor careless  he was a man of ordinary prudence a man of common sense. He could be blind, disabled,  a doctor, a lawyer, a factory worker,  act in an emergency act in self-defense or in the heat of passion. He is objective, not a statistic. In modern times,  he evolved to be the reasonable person. The reasonable person would never frolic and detour assume the risk suffer a depraved heart aid and abet break and enter The reasonable pers...

  Another in my never ending series of pointless word games. This time it's repurposing legal terminology from Black's Law Dictionary (Abridged 5th Ed.) asking the question: Indy Band name or Microbrew?   Here's a few of this morning's favorites.  Strict Scrutiny Shadow Docket Corpus Delicti Ultra Vires As Is Attractive Nuisance As Is Depraved Heart Sub Rosa Null and Void Sui Generous  Act of God Force Majeure   Stop and Frisk  Surviving Spouse (if this were a band, their big hit would likely be Alienation of Affection)  A few from Schoenbaum's Admiralty Law  Salvage Charterparty Captains Protest Empty Repo Writ of Marque Perils of the Sea   And a couple to reflect the growing cyber law area. Deep Fakes Logic Bomb