Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Dolan Media, Housing, Law, Marketing, Politics, Professional Services on Nov 16th, 2007
Long Island Business News’ publisher John Kominicki uses the announcement of FTC fines against telemarketers that defy the Do-Not-Call list to illustrate the maxim No good deed goes unpunished:
To be honest, it’s the not-for-profits that bother me the most. My wife and I give to many causes, but we like to do it locally and […]
Posted in Books, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics on Nov 15th, 2007
Judith Regan, one of the most successful publishers and editors in the book business, saw her career come to an ignominious end late last year after a controversy erupted about her plan to publish a peculiar memoir by O.J. Simpson, If I Did It, as well as an erotically-charged novelization of Mickey Mantle’s life. […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Internet, Law, Marketing, Telecommunications on Nov 5th, 2007
Do college students like to text-message? Uh, yeah. So officials at the University of Maryland and other colleges in the state can’t figure out why so few have signed up for an emergency-alert program instituted after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
According to the Daily Record, one law enforcement official thinks students are wary […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Housing, Law, Trade on Oct 29th, 2007
If it helps the state of Louisiana to give a tax break for shopping, for movie tickets, and for theatrical productions, our blogger in New Orleans, Deon Roberts wants to know why not give a tax break to the real drivers of the Crescent City’s post-Katrina recovery — the people who decided to come back […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Energy, Environment, Law on Oct 20th, 2007
If you want to keep track of how the environmental ethic is being translated into office building construction, you can’t do better than to read our Daily Journal of Commerce in Portland, Oregon. In fact, they’ve created a special “Sustainability Feed,” if you want to keep track of green developments in the Rose City.
How […]
Tim Wu argues this week in Slate that baby-boomers’ well-known appetite for getting high has, in fact, led to drug legalization. Or, to be more precise, buzz legalization.
Marijuana, cocaine and the kinds of recreational drugs you’d expect to find in the trunk of Hunter S. Thompson’s huge red Chevy convertible — you can still […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Law on Oct 12th, 2007
Does someone whose sexual turn-ons revolve around being dominated have a legal cause of action if things get out of hand?
More to the point of this story, does the estate of someone with such proclivities have a legal cause of action against the estate of a man who he let dominate him completely? A man […]
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