I can't let it go. The proper quotation: Not too much, I hope.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

Posted at August 6, 2008 2:54 PM in response to Our Moment in History

Dog lit: Sorry, I couldn't suppress this:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which if taken at the flood leads on to victory."

Posted at August 6, 2008 2:13 PM in response to Our Moment in History

Someone should send the ad and a question to Errol Morris. He is the number one analyst of photo fakery around. www.errolmorris.com/commercials.html
Does somebody know sombody?

Posted at June 20, 2008 12:57 PM in response to Did GOP Senator Fake An Ad Showing Him Cozy With Wife?

DC: "Who's your daddy now?
BigX: "You are, Dick."
C: "And who are you going to give it up to?"
B: "Big John, right?"
C: "As if you had to ask."

Posted at June 19, 2008 10:44 AM in response to Today's Must Read

All very entertaining and gossip satisfaction producing I'm sure, but I don't like this sort of chain. I can't distinguish its mode from sex spying, gotcha clips, eaves dropping, trash snooping, or hearsay repetition. I am surprised to find a lead-in to this on the main page of TPM.

Posted at June 13, 2008 1:48 PM in response to Report: McCains Have Over $100,000 In Credit Card Debt

If you google 527s you find there is a wealth of data on them. Wouldn't it be an advantage to cross reference those sources with the rumors that are slain? Most 527s seem to be funded by BIG rich sources (ref. the WP) and if their names showed up as propagators, that would be excellent.

Posted at June 12, 2008 10:38 AM in response to Obama Camp Unveils "Fight The Smears" Web Site

Could some ethical/legal beagle help me out here. Suppose some criminal defense attorney were hired by a law school to teach Criminal Procedure, and it was pointed out that he had gotten a rapist off who subsequently raped and killed, would that be a reason to ask the school to fire him/her. Are there any moral judgments on the career of a lawyer that disqualify him/her from becoming a law professor. What about the one who spent millions of taxpayer dollars trying to nail then-president Clinton; has he ever been challenged for getting the deanship of a law school? Do lawyers get a free pass to move to public funded academic posts when they have been skunks in the woodpile of history? Could the resume of an applicant for a teaching job say the following (hypothetically of course): "I know my field of law better than anyone else. That I abetted a destructive program for my previous employer is not relevant to my ability. I'm a lawyer; I get a free pass on ethics."

Posted at April 11, 2008 3:06 PM in response to Berkeley Law Dean: Yoo Was Not The Decider

derrikbill (?) --

Is right. $2/s is a thinly disguised quicky bankruptcy, and avoids all of the delays and whoopla that would attend going through the formalities in court. The boys at Merril, Carlysle, et al. can read this loud and clear. My question is to JPM: how can your lawyers deflate the parachutes of the arrogant execs at BS as they fire them. That I would like to watch.

Posted at March 17, 2008 12:28 PM in response to Total BS on Wall St.