Archive for the ‘News and Views’ Category

400

On a mini-run of non-legal posts here, but I have opinions and I have a blog, so look out… The news of the day is 400 — carbon dioxide (CO2), the main “greenhouse” gas responsible for the warming the earth, has surpassed the 400 PPM milestone. As the New York Times notes, it’s really an “odometer […]

Turn it off (or: now I remember why I don’t watch local news)

Having nothing at all to do with the practice of law… I finished watching something on TV at about 10 last night, and before I turned off the TV, I happened to tune by all of the major local newscasts – WBBM, WLS and WMAQ – right as they were coming on with their top […]

Yes, you saw that right

Was that the goodcounsel logo on the back of that dude’s bike shorts? Yes it was. I’ve previously written about why everyone should hire lawyers that ride their bikes to work. So perhaps it won’t come as a surprise that goodcounsel is now a proud sponsor of the Play It Again Sports amateur cycling team, […]

Facebook’s road not taken

I would like to use Facebook more. Without a doubt, there is great utility in a social platform that everyone is on, can be used as a universal identity for logging in or commenting on other sites, etc. But because of their customer-unfriendly privacy practices, I use it rarely and with great caution. I know there […]