Archive for December 3rd, 2010

Martha, Martha, Martha.

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

…in the first month, “The Martha Stewart Show” averaged fewer than 200,000 viewers — less than half the audience of reruns of “The Golden Girls,” which ran in the same time slot on Hallmark a year ago.

Hondo Harrelson does not approve.

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

APD SWAT team member rolls his unmarked car. Officer arrested for DWI.

Somehow I have a feeling even the arbitrator isn’t going to get him out of this one.

A little sentiment, a little advice…

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Ken over at Popehat has a good post up about his advice to a young lawyer arguing his first case.

Reading over it, it struck me that his advice could be pretty well generalized for everyone, not just lawyers:

  1. Don’t think about being the best, think about being the best prepared.
  2. (Quoted directly from Ken): “Stand straight, speak clearly and firmly and unapologetically, and act like you deserve to be there — because you do.”
  3. “I don’t know,” is never an acceptable answer. “I don’t know, but I will find out” is.
  4. When you’re trying to persuade people of something, you have to believe in something.

Add Wheaton’s Rule to that list, and it strikes me as being a pretty good way to lead your life. Or to lead other people.

Cracks in the facade.

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Celebration, Florida, the Walt Disney Company master-planned community, had their first murder over Thanksgiving weekend, and a police standoff last night that ended in a suicide. (The police standoff and the murder were apparently unrelated.)

On Thanksgiving Day, the movie theater, which proudly showed its share of Disney films, went out of business. And there is no one who has not been hoping that home prices stop dropping. At their peak, homes sold for an average of $1 million. Now, they might go for half that.

Glenn Williams, who was watching the sheriff’s deputies block the roads, said the price of his house had fallen to about $360,000 now from $825,000 two years ago.