BurtLaw's Daily Poem
"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." William Carlos Williams
By some determined deftness; put forth joys
Dear as excess without the core that cloys,
And charm Life's lourings fair.
That girdles us, and fill it with glee,
Blind glee, excelling aught could ever be,
That limitless recruits from Fancy's pack
Shall rush upon your tongue, and tender back
That a fresh love-leaf crumpled soon will dry,
And that men moment after moment die,
It is the passing preciousness of dreams;
That aspects are within us; and who seems
Announcement. We've finally gotten around to launching our new webzine/blawg: BurtLaw's The Daily Judge:
It is not an online newspaper and is not affiliated with or intended to be mistaken for any existing or previously-existing newspaper or journal. Rather, it is a so-called "blawg," a law-related personal "web log" or "blog," one with a subjective, idiosyncratic, and eccentric sociological and social-psychological slant that focuses not on the latest judicial decisions of supposed great importance but on a) the institution of judge in the United States and in other countries throughout the world, b) the judicial office and role, c) judicial personalities, d) the great common law tradition of judging as practiced here and throughout the world, e) judges as judges, f) judges as ordinary people with the usual mix of virtues and flaws, etc. We link to newspapers and other sources in order to alert the reader to ideas, articles, stories, speeches, law books, literary works and other things about "judges" that have interested us and that may interest the reader.
We don't promote our blawgs, but readers of this blog and of our affiliated political opinion blog, BurtonHanson.Com, may be interested in it. We don't think there is another blawg quite like it.